Roma Tearne

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Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan born artist and novelist living and working in Britain. She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. For nearly twenty five years her work as a painter, installation artist, and filmmaker has dealt with the traces of history and memory within public and private spaces.
She became Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2002 and it was while working at the Ashmolean, as a response to public interest, that she began to write.
In 2006 she was awarded a three-year AHRC Fellowship, at Brookes University, Oxford where she worked on the relationship between narrative and memory in museums throughout Europe. Her third novel Brixton Beach is published by Harper Collins.

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