Art2Muse

Artworks available to view in Sydney

Born in Brazil in 1960, Aseem Pereira graduated at the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney with a first class honours degree in 1999. His influences come from far and wide. From his parents he inherited the appreciation of textiles and the enthusiasm to explore new uncharted roads. This led him to successfully pursue weaving as a creative form of expression in his native homeland.

Pereira arrived in Australia in 1989 where he continues to live. Weaving was the passion that he revisited, while he was studying glass art. It became the means to stitch together a sense of cultural displacement with the longing for social inclusion. His work attempts to dissolve these borders by creating objects of an imagined world in between. It allows for a new landscape of arresting beauty to emerge.

The intensive making process and the choice of materials in Pereira's art practice carve out the beginnings of a dialogue with the viewer. However it goes beyond the most obvious aspects of interpretation into a more intimate conversation. His obsession to create objects from the global scrap heap contains references of renewed meaning, spiritual devotion and conceptual determination. Yet his motivating factors and aesthetics sensibilities lie in the transformative processes. Not what things are but what they might become is a far more interesting alchemical proposition.

Aseem Pereira's work has been represented in significant exhibitions in Australia such as the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award and the City of Hobart Art Prize. His work has been included twice in the prestigious New Glass Review by the American Corning Museum of Glass. His pieces also hang in private and corporate collections around the world.

Selected exhibitions

2009 Dreamweaving, Artisan Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Metamorphosis, solo exhibition, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Fleurieu Biennale, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
2008 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Melbourne
2008 The Alice Prize, Alice Springs Art Foundation, Alice Springs
2008 Alchemy as Metaphor, Artisan Gallery/Ivory 24-7, Brisbane
2007 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
2007 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmania Museum Art Gallery, Hobart
2005 Border Art Prize, Tweed River Gallery, Murwillumbah
2004 Reflections, Wagga-Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
2004 Ranamok Glass Prize, Touring Exhibition, Australia National
2002 Queue Here, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
2001 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Beach, Sydney
2001 National Craft Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery NT, Darwin
2000 RFC Glass Prize, Touring Exhibition, Australia National
2000 SOFA: Sculpture Object and Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA
2000 Australian Glass, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2000 This Way Up, Customs House, Sydney
1999 RFC Glass Prize, Touring Exhibition, Australia National
1998 RFC Glass Prize, Touring Exhibition, Australia National

Selected Awards/Commissions

2009 Kokomo Luxury Yacht, Commissioned by Laing Walker
2003 Wave, Wentworth Hotel - Sydney
2001 The Jaguar Designers of the Future winner (Glass), Jaguar / Belle
2001 Reception Glass Installation, Conrad Hotel, Bangkok
2000 Silk Road Series, Commissioned by Raffles International, Singapore
1998 People's Choice Award, RFC Glass Prize, Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney

Publications

Sunday Arts - Featured in the Helen Lempriere segment - ABC TV - 2008
The Alchemist by Josephine Brouard - Belle Magazine- 2007
Design by Jacqui Taffel - Domain - Sydney Morning Herald - 2004
Sculpture by the Sea by unspecified - Oyster Magazine - 2002
The Jaguar Designers of the Future by Creative Promotions - Belle Magazine- 2001
Fusions by SBS TV - SBS TV - 2000
Still Life by Rosanna De Lisle – Belle Magazine - 1999
New Glass Review 21 by Corning Museum of Glass USA - 1999
New Glass Review 20 by Corning Museum of Glass USA - 1998

Commissions considered

Contact Katrina Hampton +61-424809849 / +61 2 9697 3299