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by sumi perera
etching, aquatint, embossing
h: 70 w: 70 d: 1 (cms).
An etching & embossing deconstructed, overlaid and repeatedly printed to create multiple layers to reflect on the ever evolving landscape of London's cityscape and skyline.
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Sumi Perera is an interdisciplinary artist who links her status as a bimodal émigré born in Sri Lanka and now living in the UK.
Using traditional methods of printmaking (mezzotints, etching, engraving, screenprinting, drypoint etc), she combines them with contemporary techniques such as Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC: laser cutting & engraving, sandblasting) to create artist books and print installations.
Perera has won several international awards and prizes: The Prix de Print, Art in Print, USA; 1st Prize & Gold medal at the Seoul Bookarts Competition, the 1st Prize at SHELTER, Boston USA; The Flourish Award-Printmaker of the year for excellence in Printmaking & Solo Show.
She has work held in many public collections: Tate Britain (9 works), Victoria & Albert Museum (10 works), Yale Centre for British Art (2 works); Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2 works); British Museum, Royal Collection, British Library, UK; Guanlan Museum, China; Sakima Art Museum, Japan; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt; Iraq National Library, Bagdad etc.
She has been awarded international residencies: a teaching residency at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing (2007); guest artist fellowship, residency & solo show at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice 2017; The National Open Art Competition, Artist in Residence UK (2016); A Stone Lithography Residency at Pierre Presse, Marcilhac, France (2017); Artist Residency in Yinchuan, China 2019.
SUMI PERERA RE FSDC SGFA
MA Camberwell College, MPhil & MSc London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
MBBS Colombo Medical Faculty, Sri Lanka. Lecturer at Middlesex University, Visual Arts & Design.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Tate Britain (10 works); Victoria & Albert Museum (12 works); Yale Centre for British Art (2 works), USA; Guanlan Museum, China; Grafisk vaerksted-Naestved, Denmark; Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; printROOM, Rotterdam; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; the Ashmolean Museum Oxford; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Permanent Art Collection, Egypt; Southern Cross University Collection, Australia; Centre for Artist Books, DCA, Dundee; Brooklyn Library, USA; ULUS Collection, Belgrade, Serbia; Taiwan Museum of Fine Art; Scarborough Museum, UK; British Library.
Senior Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers [RE]; Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen [FSDC]; Full Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts [SGFA] and member of the 62 Group of Textile artists & Prism Print International.
Awards, Residencies & Prizes
Teaching Residency
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 2007
Commission
Link Media Systems. 51-52 St Johns Street, London EC1V 4JL 2004
Curated Exhibitions
15 to 1 [[Teaching Residency at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing] 12 International venues including: the University of West England, Bristol. May 2008 & Frankfurt Book Fair. PhotoGraphics –Invited Curator-Printmakers Council. Great Western Studios London. March 2013
SUMI PERERA et al. [SuperPress EDITIONS] – A 10 year retrospective of several collaborative projects:
-Library, Centre for Fine Print Research-University of West England, Bristol, UK. 1stSept-30thOct 2016
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/sumiexh/
-Impact 10 International Printmaking Conference. Collaborative Artist Book Exhibition. Cantabrian Central Library, Santander, Spain. 1st- 9thSeptember 2018
-Wish You/We Were Here/There…The Power Of The Postcard. Curated by Sumi Perera LG-The London Group
http://www.thelondongroup.com/wish-you-we-were-here-there/
2021 Cutural Centre Liechtenstein.
Sympoiesis at Thinking Of Place III An International Touring Exhibition. Satellite Group led by Sumi Perera.
1st Venue: Studio 1, Ponsonby Auckland, New Zealand
SYMPOSIA & CONFERENCES:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER – PAGES, The 22ndInternational Contemporary Artist Book Fair. The Tetley Leeds. 2nd March 2019
SPEAKER– MULTI MATRIX A Printmaking Symposium.MAC Belfast. Belfast Print Workshop in partnership with University of Ulster & Seacourt Print Workshop. 13thMarch 2020
Masterclass Hybrid Printmaking 14-15thMarch
KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Printmakers’ Symposium: RELAXING THE LINE-THE UNCONVENTIONAL. Royal Over-Seas League, London (TBC in 2022-postponed from 2020)
SPEAKER – Institute of Physics (IOP): Print in Art, Industry & Science Conference, IOP, London 3-4thMay 2022. Process Versus Product
SPEAKER – Print International Exhibition SYMPOSIUM. TŷPawb, Wrexham February, 2022.
Exhibitions
