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. When I was young I walked along the Andes chain and climbed the mountains chewing coca leaves, a traditional remedy to resist high altitude and fatigue. I also went down the Peruvian valleys, and deep into the jungle moving around in a vigorous, biomorphic and different landscape. Although my education and upbringing in Lima was largely western (listening as a teenager to punk music), when I came to England in 2003 I was carrying a hybrid world in constant animation. For the people of Ancient Peru, all nature was sacred. The greater gods, the Sun, the Moon and the stars, inhabited the heavens, together with their messengers, the rainbow, the lightning and rain.  I believe that my work is an imprint of my upbringing and experiences and speaks about everything I encountered and remember from my own past; folk storytellings, my mother’s prayers and the contradictions of a world that is a mixed of ancient beliefs and catholicism. I dance cumbia and also 80s music as I work. My imagination is always completing and filling the gap between being here living in Cornwall and my memories from my homeland. I now belong to a community in Cornwall, but also continue to celebrate dates that are important in Peru. In 2018 I created two works that involve the participation of members of the Cornish community and from other regions and countries: “Doodle Walks, Everybody has a Journey” and the second was “It has Taken me such a Long time”

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I dance cumbia and also 80s music as I work. My imagination is always completing and filling the gap between being here living in Cornwall and my memories from my homeland. I now belong to a community in Cornwall, but also continue to celebrate dates that are important in Peru. In 2018 I created two works that involve the participation of members of the Cornish community and from other regions and countries: “Doodle Walks, Everybody has a Journey” and the second was “It has Taken me such a Long time”