Sumi Perera's artist books invariably exploit her background as a doctor, scientist and artist, working in the East (Sri Lanka, her native country), and the West (the United Kingdom, her adoptive country). Mixed media assemblage techniques combining stitch, incision and traditional forms of printmaking are digitally manipulated to transform unique artwork into democratic multiples. Slight variations on the theme are used to generate 'unique multiples', whilst blurring boundaries between the artist/artisan, orient/occident and the past and present. The reader is often invited to engage with the book, by adding, subtracting, changing the numbering of the pages, thereby sharing the editorial control of the artwork.
Please visit www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//23368.html
Selected artworks are held in the
-Tate Britain
-Victoria & Albert Museum
-Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
-Yale Centre for British Art
-printROOM at Rotterdam
-Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
-Manchester Metropolitan University Collection
-Guanlan Museum, China
-Grafisk vaerksted-Naestved, Denmark
-Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
-British Library
PRIZES/AWARDS
*Prize at the Society of Bookbinders International Competition. University of Warwick. 2009
*Melville Charitable Trust Award (1st prize) at SHELTER, a juried artist book exhibition Touring exhibtion in the USA. 2008-09
*Birgit Skiold Award for excellence in Book Arts, LAB 05, London Artists Book Fair, Institute of Contemporary Art, London. 2005
*Grand Prize [1st prize & gold medal] at the 1st International Book Arts Competition, Seoul, South Korea, 2005
*Prize in the Kaleidoscope Hoffmann Challenge, National Quilt Championships, Ascot.
She is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painters-Printmakers (ARE) and the 62 Group of International Textile Artists.Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artist *Book Award NSW, Australia 15th August -22nd September ’09
www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/visarts/next/assets/pages/Artist-Books.html
Bending the Line
The Hub
The National Centre for Craft & Design
11thJul-6th Sept ‘09
http://www.thehubcentre.info/exhibitions/exhibitiondetails/summer09/bendingtheline.html
Image credits (from left): BUILDING BLOCKS BOOK (Sumi Perera ), CLOTHES ENCOUNTERS (Sumi Perera ), BEAUTY IS … (Sumi Perera )
Sumi Perera SuperPress
Paper & Book Art
High View, 22A Fenton Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 4BN
T: +44 (0) 7803 936 892
Contact: Sumi Perera
sumi_perera@hotmail.com
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