Sumi Perera RE
International award-winning printmaker Sumi Perera RE subtly fuses the expertise of traditional printmaking techniques with contemporary production processes. She creates beautifully constructed images and assemblages with architectural precision, incorporating processes such as stitching, laser cutting, folding, sandblasting and engraving as additional modes of drawing to open up new ideas beyond the perceived boundaries of print.
Perera's career background working as a doctor and a scientist feeds into her artistic practice and is reminiscent of the Renaissance's idiosyncratic integration of the Arts and Sciences; the resulting work is a studious examination of the visual world, eminating an experimental, research-like quality with an exacting eye for detail.
Perera’s work is a visual exploration of constructed space, which sometimes conjurers a sense of urban or geographical mapping. Having spent time growing up in both Sri Lanka and the UK, much of her work is influenced by the idea of blurring the restrictiveness of boundaries. Clean, symmetrically considered interlocking edges gives her work a delicate sense of temporality. This air of ephemerality is important for Perera as she notes that, for her, the allure of printmaking lies within the stream of possibilities and variables presented by a set of processes. She will quite often rework old printing plates and use discarded materials to build new work, questioning the label of a ‘finished’ piece of work set within the flux of the ever developing contemporary world.
Perera has won countless prizes for her work and exhibits worldwide. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and a member of the Society of Designers Craftsman. Her international award-winning work is held in prominent public collections including Tate Britain, V&A Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Yale Centre for British Art, USA and has recently been short listed to be included in the Smithsonian Museum collection, USA.
Articles and Reviews
PAGES 2019 - Sumi Perera by Prof Chris Taylor
View PDFBankside Newsletter Autumn 2017 Sumi Perera
View PDFBath Chronicle Feb 2017
View PDFPrintmakers Council 50th Anniversary 2015 - Sumi Perera
View PDFPrintmakers Council 2015 - Sumi Perera
View PDFArt in Print Vol 5, 2015 - Sumi Perera
View PDFPrintmaking Today Summer 2014 - Sumi Perera
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Phoenix
etching, aquatint
Edition: AP
50 x 40cm (73 x 61cm with frame)
£300
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Think Outside the White Box V
etching and aquatint
Edition: 4/50
32 x 32 cm (52.5 x 51.5 cm with frame)
£250
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Rebuilding the Built XII
etching, aquatint and hand-colouring
Edition: 5/30
44 x 49 cm (67 x 72 cm with frame)
£720
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Rebuilding the Built XI [Blueprint]
etching, aquatint
Edition: 30
44 x 49 cm
£370
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Inside Out - Outside In [Soundscape Series] XXI
etching, aquatint, embossing and monoprint
Edition: unique
56 x 38 cm (71 x 51 cm with frame)
£550
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Inside Out - Outside In [Soundscape Series] XX
etching, aquatint, embossing and monoprint
Edition: unique
56 x 38 cm (71 x 51 cm with frame)
£550
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Inside Out - Outside In [Soundscape Series] XXIII
etching, aquatint, embossing and monoprint
Edition: unique
56 x 38 cm (71 x 51 cm with frame)
£550
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Lines Exploring Space Inside the Building Blocks LI
etching, aquatint, watercolour and pastel
Edition: 4/20
56 x 33 cm (71 x 47 cm with frame)
£380
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Lines Exploring Space Inside the Building Blocks LII
etching, aquatint, watercolour and pastel
Edition: 4/20
56 x 33 cm (71 x 47 cm with frame)
£380
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Lines Exploring Space Inside the Building Blocks LIII
etching, aquatint, watercolour and pastel
Edition: 4/20
56 x 33 cm (71 x 47 cm with frame)
£380
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Lines Exploring Space Inside the Building Blocks I
etching , aquatint and pencil
Edition: 4/20
50 x 50 cm (55 x 55 cm with frame)
£380
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Lines Exploring Space Inside the Building Blocks II
etching , aquatint and pencil
Edition: 4/20
50 x 50 cm (55 x 55 cm with frame)
£380
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Lines Exploring Space Inside the Building Blocks III
etching, aquatint and pencil
Edition: 4/20
50 x 50 cm (55 x 55 cm with frame)
£380
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Think Outside the Glass Box
etching and aquatint
Edition: 5/20
50 x 30 cm (72 x 51 cm with frame)
£580
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Rebuilding the Unbuilt [Blueprint] (Top)
etching , aquatint and embossing
Edition: 20
60 x 39 cm
£380
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Rebuilding the Unbuilt [Blueprint] (Bottom)
etching and aquatint
Edition: 20
60 x 39 cm
£380
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Lines Exploring Space Between the Building Blocks XXX
etching and aquatint
Edition: unique
56 x 76 cm
£530
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Climbing the Sticky Ladder VIII
etching and aquatint
Edition: 4/50
50 x 15 cm (69 x 34 cm with frame)
poa
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Climbing Over the Glass Ceiling I
etching and aquatint
Edition: variable edition of 50
38 x 56 cm
£220
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Rhythms of Life 51.2393˚N, 0.1726˚W (VII)
etching, aquatint, embossing
Edition: 50
49.5 x 39.5cm
£300
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Rhythms of Life 51.2393˚N, 0.1726˚W (VIII)
etching, aquatint, embossing
Edition: 50
49.5 x 39.5cm
£300
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Inside Out-Outside In [IO-OI] XVII
collagraph, chine colle, etching, aquatint and incision
Edition: unique
60 x 60 cm (69 x 68 cm with frame)
£750
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Rebuilding the Unbuilt [Ghost i]
etching, aquatint and incision
Edition: variable edition of 3
70 x 50 cm
£300
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Rebuilding the Unbuilt [Ghost ii]
etching, aquatint and incision
Edition: variable edition of 3
70 x 50 cm (83 x 61cm with frame)
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Inside Out-Outside In [IO-OI] I
etching and aquatint
Edition: variable edition of 10
56 x 38 cm (76 x 56 cm with frame)
£390
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RnB (Rhythm and Blue) VI
etching, aquatint, embossing
Edition: 20
23 x 23cm
Sold
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Urban Jungle Beat
etching, aquatint, pen and pencil
Edition: 50
40 x 39.5cm
£300
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Urban Jungle Beat V
etching, aquatint, embossing, stitch on paper
Edition: 20
45 x 24cm
£200
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Climbing the Sticky Ladder IV
etching, aquatint, thread
Edition: 50
49 x 14cm (75 x 56 cm with frame)
£500
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