Bio

 

Susi Gutiérrez was born in Lima, Perú, where she studied Archaeology and worked in textiles conservation. In the UK, she studied Fine Arts and an MA in printmaking at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

About her work, she says: “My work is constructed through process. Feelings and emotions are both important. They often reflect and reference the stories I build as I walk, the small details of our surroundings, the people with whom I make connections or not.”

 

About

 

My practice is across media: from painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, video installation to interventions with other artists abroad and in the UK. It is influenced by movement and the travelings I have done before and after I migrated from Lima in Peru.

What I do is mainly autobiographical and combines ideas of memory and imagination in relation to my upbringing.

About my paintings, rather than trying to reproduce a real image, my approach is intuitive and I like to create tension between areas of abstraction and finer detail. I observe very often what I have been doing and my work can change dramatically from one day to another.

About my prints, although I do not do series, I have been using the same etched plates for years creating variations using chine colle and mono prints techniques. As a result I have a collection of hybrid prints that I enjoy making enormously.