Paper manipulation and 3D assemblage (London, UK)

This two-day intensive course will explore the principles and properties of paper. Participants will use a variety of methods, tools and techniques and learn paper casting, embossing and debossing. Participants will also learn alternative mark-making techniques, table-top printmaking skills and paper engineering methods to assemble and embellish their own three-dimensional structures.

Day one:
• Understanding the properties of paper
• Demonstration of paper casting of surfaces and objects
• A presentation of table-top printmaking skills
Day two:
• Making reversible paper structures
• Paper layering
• Devising a cohesive artwork – assemblage and presentation

Participants are advised to bring boxes (shoe box size) to transport their work home, as there are no storage facilities at the RA.

Location/Venue: Royal Academy of Arts - Burlington Gardens - The Clore Learning Centre
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Cost/Fee: £420 (approx. US$549 as of Sep 14, 2018)
Material/Studio fee: Included

Their workshop calendar: https://tinyurl.com/ycu6o3fh

Instructor: Dr Sumi Perera is an interdisciplinary artist and academic who uses her background as a doctor and scientist to produce conceptual, often interactive artworks. Her installations are composed of multiple modules that require interaction and may be re-sequenced to produce various permutations.

Sumi obtained an MA in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts in 2004, and has taught on the MA Printmaking course at Middlesex University. She is a Senior Fellow and council member for the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.

Sumi has won numerous international awards and her work is in several international public collections, including Tate Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum, the Royal Collection, Ashmolean and The Yale Center for British Art.

She has held many international residencies where she often produces site-specific installations. A teaching residency at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, resulted in a twelve-venue touring international exhibition she curated titled 15 to 1. She was the first member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers to be awarded a Guest Artist Fellowship, a six-week residency and solo show at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice.