VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Installation, Paper on Paper
Size: 7.5 W x 3937 H x 0 D in
An attempt to swaddle & straddle The Tower. 'All Along the Watchtower', Dylan’s song inspired by a biblical reference to the Book of Isaiah [Chapter 21:verses 5-9] uses an unusual sequence: the order of events is reversed, builds up an epic ballad, and then suddenly cuts to the end leaving the listener to fill in all the blanks. The evolution of this installation : UB-AATW (Unbuilding Blocks-All Along the Watchtower) had a similar build-up. Initial ideas of swaddling the full length of the tower were abandoned due to health & safety issues, and the work moved to the inside of the tower, straddling certain areas from the roof to the base with some blank regions. Commentators of the song have observed that it was a mistake from beginning to end. A watch tower is not a road or a wall, you cannot go along it. St Augustine’s Tower is a clocktower, not a watchtower. UNBUILDING BLOCKS-All Along The Watchtower [UB-AATW], the installation references how obstacles (blocks) were encountered with alternate possibilities. A Collaboration with Suda Perera, my daughter who made the sculpture of Dylan 12 years ago (GCSE Art project) after we attended a concert to see/hear Bob Dylan perform.
Original Created:2015
Subjects:Architecture
Styles:AbstractFine ArtConceptual
Mediums:PaperTextileClayprintmaking
Installation:Paper on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:7.5 W x 3937 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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The London Group Member http://www.thelondongroup.com/sumi-perera/ Senior Fellow of the Royal Society Of Painter-Printmakers; Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen; Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts; Member of Prism Print International; Member of the 62 Group; Former Lecturer, MA Printmaking, Middlesex University, London 2016; Taught a Course on Paper Manipulation & 3D Assemblage-Royal Academy, London 2018; Keynote Speaker-RELAXING THE LINE-Innovations in Printmaking. Royal Overseas League, London. Speaker-MULTI MATRIX Symposium, Belfast '19 Keynote Speaker-PAGES: The International Contemporary Artist Book Event, Leeds. UK; https://www.axlearts.com/downloads/press/PAGES_2019_-_Craft_in_Conflict_Sumi_Perera_by_Prof_Chris_Taylor.pdf Artist Residency-Yinchuan CHINA '19 Guest Artist Fellowship 6week Residency/Solo Show-VENICE: http://www.scuolagrafica.it/art/venice-artists-residencies/royal-society-of-painter-printmakers-at-scuola-internazionale-di-grafica/ Saxa Loquuntor-Stone Lithography Residency. Pierre Press, Toulouse, FRANCE 6-20th May '17 Teaching Residency-CAFA Beijing CHINA '07 Artist-in-Residence National OpenArt Competition '16 Overall Best in Show Prize-DRAW 16 [Strathmore Fine Artist Paper Bursary] PUBLIC COLLECTIONS "¢ Tate Britain [9 works] "¢ Victoria & Albert Museum [12 works] "¢ Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [2 works] ¢ British Museum ¢ Royal Collection of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II "¢ Yale Centre for British Art, USA [2 works] "¢ Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan "¢ British Library, London, UK "¢ Guanlan Museum, China "¢ Grafisk vaerksted-Naestved, Denmark "¢ Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Permanent Art Collection. Alexandria, Egypt "¢ Southern Cross University Artist Book Collection, NSW, Australia "¢ CFPR (Centre for Fine Print Reserach) Collection,University of West England, Bristol. UK "¢ Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas, USA "¢ Centre for Artist Books, Visual Research Centre, DCA, Dundee "¢ ULUS Print Triennial Collection, Belgrade, Serbia "¢ PrintROOM - Rotterdam "¢ Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery "¢ Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London "¢ DFWEA Collection, Satu Mare, Romania "¢ Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collection "¢ Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK "¢ Scarborough Print Archive, UK "¢ Iraq National Library, Baghdad "¢ Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, R.O.C.
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