Staff Profile
Yilis Suriel
Deputy Technical Manager
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 4644
- Personal Website: https://www.yilisdelcarmensuriel.com/
- Address: Room 3.17
Old Library Building
Claremont Road
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RG
Roles & Responsibilities:
Manage the School of Arts & Cultures’ technical team. Support staff and students in the School providing technical support for teaching, research and live events as well as high quality teaching, in particular for programmes within Media,Culture, Heritage(MCH), Music and Fine Art.
Background:
Yilis del Carmen Suriel was born in Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana, and moved to the United States at the age of nine. She was trained as a printmaker and papermaker at Mason Gross School for the Arts, Rutgers University where she received her Bachelors in Fine Arts and received her Masters in Fine Arts from Newcastle University. Since then she has also worked as a multimedia artist, performer, and musician. She is an educator, artist, and musician.
Qualifications:
Master of Fine Arts, Newcastle University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Mason Gross School for the Arts, Rutgers University
Languages:
Spanish
English
External Links:
Research Interests
Traditional and contemporary Printmaking
Film Studies
West African & Latin Percussion
Trombone
Other Expertise
Graphic Design
Video production services, filming, editing
Artist Statement:
The thread that runs through my body of work is the need to expose the nature of being an immigrant and how this plays out in a new place (host nation). The weaving of history, my experience as an immigrant, and personal narrative from memory, culture and identity as a Dominican American inform my work. I want to explore how the borders blur between home and host country through imagery that address issues of intersectional identities, spirituality and social (in)justices.
My ideas are unfolded in a variety media, most important of these to me is printmaking and papermaking, which are the media I was originally trained in. I am currently starting to introduce multimedia performances, drawings, video and installations into my creative visions. With my performance work I seeks to bring to light and confront issues of migration, interpretation of culture and identity through inter personal connections.