Shirani Bolle is an artist with Sri Lankan, Dutch-German, and British heritage. Her practice encompasses performance, text, sculpture, and sound. She investigates the role and status of women in both domestic and media contexts.

this has nothing to do with me is Bolle’s first solo show. The exhibition brings together an expansive and eclectic range of works addressing themes of care, intergenerational trauma, gender-based violence, and masking. The selection is shaped by the artist’s lived and inherited experiences of displacement and survival, examined through motherhood, abjection, and satire.

This exhibition is produced by SIRIUS and curated by Miguel Amado, Director.

Shirani Bolle and Miguel Amado discuss the exhibition’s themes and key works, as well as the politics and aesthetics informing Bolle’s practice.

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Shirani Bolle engages with representations of the female body, utilising established tropes to consider patriarchal conceptions of femininity. She focuses particularly on marginalised groups, including racialised and neurodivergent individuals such as herself. She explores notions of monstrosity to challenge idealised views of womanhood and advance a disruptive feminist perspective.

Textiles are a central medium in Bolle’s practice, and she employs techniques such as embroidery and crochet. By integrating these into her practice, she challenges their historically subordinate status in art, while playing on their associations with gendered labour.

this has nothing to do with me features visually compelling craft pieces, from banners to amorphous freestanding forms, alongside video-recorded actions, staged photographs, an audio track, and a fanzine. The works synthesise personal and political perspectives, intellectual inquiry, raw emotion, excess, and sensuality.

Shirani Bolle is based in Limerick. She has participated in group shows at Luan Gallery, Athlone; South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel; and Ormston House, Limerick. She has performed at Sirius Arts Centre and as part of Convergence, organised by Live Art Ireland. She received awards from the Arts Council and Limerick City and County Council. She is self-taught.

Shirani Bolle, The Show (still), 2025. HD video, colour, 16:9, sound, 3 minutes and 33 seconds. Courtesy of the artist