for all inquiries—
i make things!!
Pear works across craft, visual art, writing, and participatory happenings.
things i make & do:
textiles (knitting, sewing, banner-making, embroidery, natural dyeing)
fiction writing
drawings
risos
talks / panels / readings
zines
critical writing (especially around “ESEA” politics)
collages / assemblages
workshops / participatory happenings
CV
Education
2022–2024 MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School
2019–2022 BA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School
2008–2011 BA History of Art (Asia, Africa, Europe), School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London
Awards
2022 Brian Till Thesis Award
2019 CGLAS Scholarship
2022–2024 Leverhulme Scholarship
Exhibitions
Group
2023 Elsewhere, Bethlem Gallery (London-Kent border) [more here]
2022 Queer Lives and Art: Radical Textiles, Woodfield Pavilion (London)
2021 Everybody’s Got One, Broca Gallery (London)
2021 Intersection, CLGAS interim show, AMP Studios (London)
Projects + Residencies
2022 Cultivate That! Turf Projects (London)
2021 Propagate This! Turf Projects (London)
Publications + Commissions (as author)
2023 ‘ESEA FOLKS 4…?’, Interjection Calendar 009, Montez Press [Available to buy here]
2022 Creative response to Contained Terrain, iniva
Written response (+ collage and audio description) to study day at iniva. [Read on iniva blog]
2022 Pearls From Their Mouth, Hajar Press
Debut book: a collection of short stories and essays. [more info here]
2021 ‘Dear Yellow People’, Abolitionist Approaches to Hate Crime, Remember & Resist
Written response in the wake of conversations on anti-racism over 2020–2021. [read here]
2021 ‘Now Is The Time Of Monsters: Croydon’s Exquisite Corpse’, Turf Projects blog
Write-up of workshop and reflections on Croydon’s public / private spaces. [read here]
Workshops (as facilitator)
2023 QYAC x Streatham Space project collaborative banner-making workshop
2022 Queer Youth Art Collective textile workshops
2021 MOSS textile workshop, Turf Projects, Croydon
2019–2020 Various craft workshops with The Outside Project and Black Cap Community Hub
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