Artist Statement
Through my sculptural practice, I use mass-produced and over-looked materials to excavate and dramatise moments of intimacy and wonder within city surfaces. Fizzing with emotional charge left by stunted conversations, parting glances, doors opened and tentatively closed: my work imagines that these instances are etched into the ground, the walls and the furniture. I repurpose the common grounds of newspaper, cardboard, concrete and phone screen glass to memorialise lost interactions and buried feelings. I approach making with a joyful and hungry curiosity for manipulating and testing unconventional materials. Picking up what’s left behind and tenderly coaxing it into sculpture and installation, the work triggers a solidarity in recognising common experiences at shared sites.
Through my sculptural practice, I use mass-produced and over-looked materials to excavate and dramatise moments of intimacy and wonder within city surfaces. Fizzing with emotional charge left by stunted conversations, parting glances, doors opened and tentatively closed: my work imagines that these instances are etched into the ground, the walls and the furniture. I repurpose the common grounds of newspaper, cardboard, concrete and phone screen glass to memorialise lost interactions and buried feelings. I approach making with a joyful and hungry curiosity for manipulating and testing unconventional materials. Picking up what’s left behind and tenderly coaxing it into sculpture and installation, the work triggers a solidarity in recognising common experiences at shared sites.
Exhibitions
Anemoia, 21 Connaught Street, London, 2025
Looking Down/ To The Ground, Organ Projects, Brighton, 2025
NAP+ with Night Café, Amsterdam, 2025
I Saw It All Around Me, Warbling Collective, Greatorex Street, London, 2025
Art Brussels with Night Café, Brussels, 2025
Crossing the Everyday, Night Café, London, 2025
Face to Face, Vine Yard, London, 2025
Mapping Beyond Sight, Algha Works, London, 2024
MFA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London, 2024
Flesh and Blood, No Format Gallery, London, 2024
Sludge Signals, duo show with Lucie Holzer, Take Courage Gallery, London, 2024
Not Found, Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show, London, 2023
Approximate Distance, hARTslane, London, 2023
Taste the Difference, Hypha studios, London, 2023
Instant Karma, SET Lewisham, London , 2019
Low Entertainment, Arch 5 Hackney Central, London, 2018
EBC018, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol, 2018
The Fear Is Back, Chisenhale Art Place, London, 2017
Blue Sky Thinking SET Capstan House, 2017
Soft Opening SET Studios, London, 2017
Platform Graduate Showcase, De La Warr Pavilion, 2016
Fine Art Degree Show, University of Brighton, 2016
The Five Abstractions, Atelier 51 Gallery, Brighton, 2016
North Lodge Residency, Cawdor Castle, Scotland, 2015
Shift, Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, 2015
Summer of Somewhere to_ , Circus Street, Brighton, 2015
After Image, Artista Gallery, Hove, Brighton, 2014
Education
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, 2022-2024
INTO THE WILD artist development programme with Chisenhale Art Place, 2016-2017
Fine Art Sculpture BA, University of Brighton, 2013-2016
@elliepearch
[email protected]
Anemoia, 21 Connaught Street, London, 2025
Looking Down/ To The Ground, Organ Projects, Brighton, 2025
NAP+ with Night Café, Amsterdam, 2025
I Saw It All Around Me, Warbling Collective, Greatorex Street, London, 2025
Art Brussels with Night Café, Brussels, 2025
Crossing the Everyday, Night Café, London, 2025
Face to Face, Vine Yard, London, 2025
Mapping Beyond Sight, Algha Works, London, 2024
MFA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London, 2024
Flesh and Blood, No Format Gallery, London, 2024
Sludge Signals, duo show with Lucie Holzer, Take Courage Gallery, London, 2024
Not Found, Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show, London, 2023
Approximate Distance, hARTslane, London, 2023
Taste the Difference, Hypha studios, London, 2023
Instant Karma, SET Lewisham, London , 2019
Low Entertainment, Arch 5 Hackney Central, London, 2018
EBC018, East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol, 2018
The Fear Is Back, Chisenhale Art Place, London, 2017
Blue Sky Thinking SET Capstan House, 2017
Soft Opening SET Studios, London, 2017
Platform Graduate Showcase, De La Warr Pavilion, 2016
Fine Art Degree Show, University of Brighton, 2016
The Five Abstractions, Atelier 51 Gallery, Brighton, 2016
North Lodge Residency, Cawdor Castle, Scotland, 2015
Shift, Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton, 2015
Summer of Somewhere to_ , Circus Street, Brighton, 2015
After Image, Artista Gallery, Hove, Brighton, 2014
Education
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, 2022-2024
INTO THE WILD artist development programme with Chisenhale Art Place, 2016-2017
Fine Art Sculpture BA, University of Brighton, 2013-2016
@elliepearch
[email protected]