CV
Karen Pearson
MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Plymouth University. July 2017
First Class Honours in BA Fine Art: Plymouth University. June 2013
'Presence' Residency show July - August 2018
Graduate residency at Ocean Studios 2018
South West Academy of fine and Applied Arts annual exhibition 2017
NEW Ashburton Art Festival Co-Organiser Current
MA Show work: Plymouth Art Weekender 2017: Royal William Yard, Plymouth September 2017
MA Graduation Show: Royal William Yard, Plymouth July 2017
'Being Human’: Art Week Exeter 2017: Spacex Gallery, Exeter May 2017
'Being Human’: Plymouth Art Weekender 2016: Royal William Yard, Plymouth September 201 Presented paper at Land/Water ‘Traffic’ Symposium: Plymouth University April 2016
Gallery and Project Space Director for artspace@57: Ashburton 2013 -2015
'Convergence’ and Campus: Plymouth Art Weekender 2015: Multi-venue group show September 2015
NIEIW Art ‘Sound Saturday’ www.n-e-w.org September 2015
Event organisation: co-founder of art collective.
Salcombe Art Fair August 2015
Selected artist: Convergence’: artspace 101 at Plymouth University January 2015
'Spatial Boundaries’: artspace 101 at Plymouth University December 2014
NIEIW Ashburton Art Festival September 2014
Event organisation: co-founder of art collective
‘Walking the Edge’: Yarner Wood and artspace@57 September 2014
Final exhibition for Artist Residency. Supported by Natural England
'Game of Metaphors’: Art at Yarner trail, Yarner Woods September 2013
Site responsive group show. Organiser, curator and participant
Supported by Natural England, East Dartmoor National Nature Reserve
Tropical Lab 2013, Singapore July – August 2013
LaSalle College of the Arts and Institute for Contemporary Art 2 Gallery, Singapore.
Selected international residency and show
'A Journey with 40 sticks’: Degree show: Royal William Yard, Plymouth June 2013
2013 Ben Hartley Painting Award
'PULP’: R.K.Burt Gallery, London May 2013
‘Entrophy’: Platform, Trerise Gallery, Plymouth March 2013
'Assemblage: Narratives in a managed landscape’: Yarner Woods November 2012
Site responsive art event. Organiser, curator and participant.
Supported by Natural England. Thesis subject
TakepArt Art Project: Plymouth City Centre November 2012
Pop-up community art project run with three other artists
Supported by Plymouth University and Plymouth City Council