Sumi Perera – Liminal Spaces III

18 May – 22 June

Sumi Perera is an interdisciplinary artist, who generates mixed media installations, usually bearing the narrative of a book form. Sumi has undertaken residencies at CAFA, Beijing (2007), the AIR for the National Open Art (2016) and is the first recipient of the RE Guest Artist Full Fellowship & Solo exhibition at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice (2017).

She is a lecturer on the MA Printmaking course at the Middlesex University, London and runs workshops and masterclasses for many print collectives. Her work has won several international prizes, medals & awards, and is held in public & private collections including the V&A, Tate Britain, Yale Centre for British Art and the Ashmolean.

LIMINAL SPACES III, draws together elements from the artist’s different exhibitions at WYPW and other geographic excursions. It includes printmaking and Sumi’s hybrid practice of combining drawings (metal point), vitreous enamel plates (which the artist sees as printing on metal with glass oxides) and other techniques.

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