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.