About / CV


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i make things!!

Pear works across craft, visual art, writing, and participatory happenings.  

things i make:

knitting

other textiles (felting, embroidery, hangings)

fiction writing

drawings

risos

zines

critical writing

collages / assemblages

workshops / participatory happenings

CV

Education

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

Exhibitions
Group
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

2022 (forthcoming) Creative response to Contained Terrain, iniva
Written response (+ collage and audio description) to study day at iniva. 

2022 (forthcoming) 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]

Awards
2022 Brian Till Thesis Award
2019 CGLAS Scholarship

Workshops (as facilitator)

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