Srinivas Surti
Srinivas Surti trained at Central Saint Martins, completing an MA in Fine Art in 2002, where he was awarded the Rootstein Hopkins Postgraduate Award, and has since exhibited in London and throughout the UK. He is a Lecturer in Printmaking at the University of Suffolk (BA Fine Art and BA Graphic Design) since 2019, a tutor on the online MA Fine Art at Falmouth University since 2021, and a Lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts since 2023. His work was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2010). In 2022 he co-edited the print publication Cha with fellow PhD researcher Remi Rana Allen, funded by the CCW MPhil/PhD Initiative Fund, exploring Brownness as a mode of cultural identification, and in August 2023 he participated in an International Doctoral School in Nida, Lithuania. Selected exhibitions include Fashioning Frequencies (East Bank Gallery, London College of Fashion, 2025); Thread Count, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral and Here (The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk); ChArt and Discursivity (Chelsea College of Arts); Blender (The Cello Factory, London, 2020); the Annual Ipswich Biennale (2018); Transitional Landscapes (Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA, 2016); and Bounding Line, a solo exhibition at the Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London (2014).
Artist Statement
I am an artist, educator and practice-based doctoral researcher. My research explores the coexistence of pictorial and sculptural qualities in relief as an analogy for cultural hybridity. The consideration of relief - traditionally regarded as a sub-category of sculpture - as a form of imprint prompts my investigation into the nature of flatness and depth, image and object, printing matrix (plate, screen, digital file) and substrate (paper, fabric, wall). Within this, I use the intangible qualities of lightness and shimmer as affectual ways of working with image and surface to explore notions of slippage and hybridity. This is developed through analogue, digital and performance strategies for print practice, including frottage, wall stencilling, photography and montage.