Sindu has been a commissioned artist since 2017 working in traditional (acrylic, ink) and digital (procreate, illustrator, photoshop) media to produce paintings, illustrations, comic short stories, tattoo designs and logos for clients.
In her personal work she explores her identity as a Tamil woman through a feminist lens, creating visual interpretations of various topics including Tamil collective memory and the impact of violence, genocide, patriarchal systems and the militarised state on her community. She approaches her work with the goal of striking a personal harmony between her identity, her politics and her culture. Please visit her on instagram (@murukku) to find more of her personal work.
For freelance or commission inquiries please email her at sindu.sivayogam@ gmail.com.
Education
MSc City Design and Social Science, with Distinction, 2018 – 2019
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Winner of the Hobhouse Memorial Prize for Best Overall Performance
BES Honours Planning Co-op, Urban Design Specialisation, 2006 – 2011
University of Waterloo
Publications
2025 To remember is to look around (Featured image) by Ambihai Akilan, Briarpatch Magazine, July/August Issue
2024 Yet Whom Do They Destroy?: Black July (Featured images), Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research
2024 Stories of Mullivaikkal (Featured images), Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research
2023 The Innocence of (European) Instruments (Featured image) by Sinthujan Varatharajah, NO NIIN Magazine, Issue 18
2022 Shyam Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens by Sindu Sivayogam, Canadian Notes & Queries, Spring/Summer Issue
2021 Opinion: Detained by Sindu Sivayogam, The Globe and Mail, Summer Canadian Comic Series
2021 This Mother’s Day, pay attention to racialized women leading resistance movements, like Tamil mothers (Featured image) by Vivetha Thambinathan, The Conversation Canada, May 6th 2021
2021 She Was My Sister by Sinthujan Varatharajah and Sindu Sivayogam, Bystander Anthology: Stories, Observations & Witnessings from South Asia, Kadak Collective
2021 A Radiant Cascade by Sindu Sivayogam, Ninaivu: Tamil Memory Archive, University of Connecticut
2020 Passing it on (Featured images) by Amy Hall, New Internationalist Magazine, November/December Issue
2020 When memory outlives (Featured image) by Mirusha Yogarajah, Briarpatch Magazine, May/June Issue
2018 Featured: SADAC Zine Volume 2: Diaspora’s Tongue, New York City
2018 Constant Tug of War by Sindu Sivayogam, Groundviews, Sri Lanka
2018 Featured: Poison Apple by Megan Dhakshini, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Exhibitions
2018 Displaced: In Search of Our Origins (Group) – Tamil Student Initiative, UCL, London, UK
2018 Macabre of the Silenced (Group) – Canadian Tamil Youth Alliance, JessGo Gallery, Toronto
2017 Tamil Heritage Month Reception (Group) – Tamils in Public Service, Queens Park, Toronto
2017 Alt+Ctrl+Shift 2.0 (Group), Mantra Life Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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