Preeti Sood

Preeti Sood is a British Indian artist/printmaker whose practice is focused on providing a complex, multi-faceted commentary prompted by her situation as an émigré and the sense of dislocation this engenders.

Sood has a BFA in Printmaking from Chandigarh College of Arts and an MFA in Printmaking from Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Sood also has a MA in Printmaking from Camberwell, UAL. Sood is a member of the ADVANCE HE and a Fellow of Higher Education. Preeti explores contemporary technology in conjunction with traditional printmaking processes. The work produced over the last decade evokes ideas of decomposition, temporality, erasure and redaction. Such processes need not totally obscure what they erase and conversely, they may leave traces and the residual evidence of a process of subtraction that elicits a sense of loss or absence connected to the feelings of migration to a new place.

A further feature of her work involves the integration of traditional printmaking and the digital – what Sood refers to as ‘Tradigital’. Currently she is interested in rediscovering traditionally printed Bazaar Art through emerging print technologies, researching materials to change or to be changed. Such tensions between old and new, east and west, traditional and post-digital platforms provide a rich basis for experiment, including exploring innovative approaches to drawing that are central to the Transformative Matter, Material Trace drawing research group. Sood has participated regularly in the IMPACT (International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques’) conference series – IMPACT 8 (2013), Dundee Borders & Crossings: artist as explorer and was invited to co-present a paper and exhibit at IMPACT 9 (2015), in Hangzhou, China and IMPACT 10, Santander, Spain. Sood has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, Spain and the USA. In addition, she has sold at Affordable Art Fair, London; Art Summit, India; and Singapore Art Fair. Sood’s work has been incorporated into collections such as: RSA and Jindals Steel, India. Her practice-based research has led her to participate in conferences such as: the 42nd annual Southern Graphics SGC International conference in the San Francisco, USA (2014). Preeti has taught at the University of Lincoln, where she was Artist Print Fellow, she incorporated printmaking into the curriculum at the British School in Delhi, and is currently working at the Arts University Bournemouth.