Elana Munasinghe is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Edinburgh College of Art. Over the past three years, their work has been featured across 30 platforms, including: galleries, exhibitions, websites and magazines. In 2025, they were also selected for the Royal Society of British Artists’ Rising Stars exhibition.
Munasinghe’s practice engages with complex themes of identity, hegemonic social structures and systemic inequality. Their use of hand-sculpted ceramics highlights the potential of craft media to convey human emotion and physical labour within fine art contexts. Drawing heavily from popular culture and queerness, their work is shaped by contemporary, camp and cartoonish aesthetics. This approach allows them to explore challenging and often uncomfortable ideas through visually striking and conceptually layered forms.
Superhero Experiments considers exercise as a gender-transgressive act, alongside ideas of resilience, medicalisation and the lived experiences of alternatively gendered bodies. This installation adopts the visual language of a clinical environment, with fragmented superhero forms arranged across dissection tables to evoke discomfort and morbid curiosity. Fluid figures and inconsistently glazed surfaces suggest the inherent malleability of gender, pointing toward a more empowered, softer future shaped by de-medicalised transmasculine acceptance.
