Artworks

Hamish Pearch

Pearch combines casts made from Jesmonite and resin, alongside modelled pieces, found objects, natural forms and other commonplace materials to interrogate the imaginative border between reality and the inventive or visionary. Through a wide practice of sculpture, installation, drawing and sound and the manipulation of scales that unsettle the everyday, the artist reflects on the complex structures that we as humans occupy and experience.

Hamish Pearch (b. 1993, London, UK) earned his BFA from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) in 2015 and received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London, 2019. Selected solo exhibitions include ‘If things were different’, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City (2022); ‘Happy Birthday, Dear Speed’, Quench, Margate (2022); ‘Amygdala lost and found’, Sans titre, Paris, (2021); ‘Thames Mud’, Front, Brussels, (2021); ‘Head Above Water’, Belsunce Projects/Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); ‘Nights’, Soft Opening, London (2019) and ‘On a day like this’, Sans titre, Paris (2018). Curated and selected group exhibitions include ‘Day by Day, Good Day’, Union Pacific, London (2023); ‘Cheirokmeta (Things Made by Hand)’, Sperling, Munich (2023); ‘Je suis la chaise’, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2022); ‘The Art of Mushrooms’, Park Serralves Foundation, Porto (2022-2023); ‘Civil Twilight’, Ginny on Frederick, London (2022); ‘All season sanctuary’, Mendes Wood DM at Retranchement (2022); ‘Glitch: The City as Palimpsest’, Cooke Latham, London (2022); ‘La Psychologie des Serrures’, CAN - Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2021); 5th Edition, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, London (2021); ‘Mushrooms’, Somerset House, London (2020); ‘Schools Show’, Royal Academy of Art, London (2019); Ana Prata and Hamish Pearch curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli at Kupfer, London (2018); ‘Go’, Soft Opening, London (2018); ‘New Relics’, Thames-side Studios, London, (2018); ‘Premiums’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, (2018); ‘Addams Outtakes’, Roaming Projects, London, (2017); ‘Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour’ (co-curated and exhibited in with William Rees) at J Hammond Projects, London (2017); ‘Le Laboratoire’, Sans titre, Marseille, (2017); Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Primary, Nottingham and ICA, London (2015).