About

Kumari is Sri Lankan-British-Australian and was introduced to ceramic practice  more than two decades ago when she started co-facilitating pottery groups in her role as an occupational therapist, empowering people to find a path to holistic wellness through clay based creative praxis. Over the years Kumari has used clay in group work settings as a psychotherapist working in the field of Women's Wellness in London and Australia.

 

In 2016 upon leaving hippest East London for the wilds of the Blue Mountains on unceded Darug and Gundungurra land to weave a more embodied and creative life with her family, Kumari started focusing on her own ceramic practice and studied with many Master potters locally.

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In 2022 Kumari commenced a Phd at the intersection of community arts, social justice and wellbeing. Kumari submitted her Phd in May 2026 and will receive her doctorate by the end of this year.

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​Kumari has been co-weaving community arts based practice across health, academic and arts organisations over the last 25 years. Currently she facilitates clay based cross-cultural storytelling workshops in the Blue Mountains and works at Curious Work, Western Sydney arts organisation 3 days a week as their Senior Community Arts Creative Producer.

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Kumari's own arts practice involves ceramics, film making and mark making to map what it means to be an artist-mother living in diaspora, connecting with ancestral knowledges, living respectfully and joyfully in communion with more than human kin on Dharug and Gundungurra land.