She utilises hybrid printmaking techniques, such as etching, aquatint, dry point, monoprint, chine-colle, collagraphs, mezzotint, lithography, kiln-fired screen print decals and combines these with stitch and computer numerical controlled methods like laser-cutting/engraving and sandblasting. Her practice is often interactive, collaborative, open to transformation and can include performative elements.
In Lines Exploring Space we can observe how she creates different strata in space. Layered prints mirrored in glass spheres, which she has placed on book-sized transparent shelves throwing shadows beneath. All panels have their own colour theme, identity and dynamic, presenting interrelate and individual stand-alone entities. Perera’s pictorial vistas invite us on a journey to explore the three space dimensions — up-down, left-right, forward-backward — and the one-time dimension. At each exhibition, the work acquires new strands that get incorporated into the pre-existing installation, for example, at Huddersfield Art Gallery in West Yorkshire, she drew extended lines onto the walls, demonstrating her ever expanding vision and the fleetingness of our world.
Sumi Perera’s work will be exhibited at Reflections curated by Alex Hinks, Cello Factory, 33 - 34 Cornwall Road, London SE1 8TJ, 10 October – 21 October 2021. Wednesdays – Sundays and by appointment.
Courtesy and ©Sumi Perera and Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy.
Image: Lines Exploring Space, 2021, Moving Shadows of the 7 panels, artist book installation. Materials and techniques: Hybrid Printmaking: etching, aquatint, embossing, thermochromic ink; changes in colour created with fluctuations in temperature or touch, stitch, Perspex, metal, paper and card, dimensions variable, installation view.
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