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.

 

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, and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, Spain and the USA.