Nick Pearson

'Nick Pearson is a creative 'fence', filching objects from the real world and subtly redesignating them before palming them off on the viewer. Snatching conversational fragments and kidnapping the lives of redundant objects he baldly re-presents them as items that promise both utility and decoration but deliver neither.'
- Vic Allen, Arts Director Dean Clough Galleries

'Often, the biggest creative decision is in the choice, or recognition of the object in the first place. The rest comes with living with the object, doing something to it then reacting to the effect of that first intervention. I like to follow Jasper Johns dictum, during which meaning begins to become clearer to me or forms itself out of the process.
Take an object
Do something to it
Do something else to it'

STUDIED
Jacob Kramer College of Art (Leeds). 1977-78 • Wolverhampton Polytechnic. 1978-79 • Stourbridge College of Art. 1979-81

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Neither Use nor Ornament Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, West Yorkshire 2010–11 • Wish You Were Here (365 days) Central Space Gallery, London. 1998 • Display, Atlas Studio Space London.1992• Public Spectacle, Private Spectator, Central Space Gallery, London. 1991 • Nick Pearson, Recent Work Dovecote Arts Centre, Stockton on Tees, Cleveland 1990

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Visibly Evident (touring exhibition of artists using photography) OPEN Ealing, London 2011 • Visibly Evident (touring exhibition of artists using photography) Central Space Gallery, London 2010. www.visiblyevident.com • The Sketchbook Project III Art House Co-op Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 2009–10 Group exhibition touring US venues including Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC., Laconia Gallery, Boston, Antenna Gallery, Chigago • Sitting Room UK and international touring exhibition of artists books. Through 2007 (Including Alsager Arts Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University Alsager Campus, Permanent Gallery, Brighton and venues in Mexico and The Netherlands) • Drawing (Nick Pearson & David Ross) Central Spa...

Last exhibition:
Neither Use nor Ornament Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, West Yorkshire. Solo exhibition
9 Oct 2010 – 9 Jan 2011