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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