Hamish Pearch
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.
His practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and sound. Pearch is drawn to the inherent contradictions within both everyday materials and natural phenomena, shaping his work around these tensions to explore how space, form, and perception intersect.
Pearch probes the fluidity between the man-made and the natural. His sculptures are sites of potential — volatile objects that teeter on the edge of transformation. Through a delicate and often subtle manipulation of materials, he creates uncanny scenarios that play with our sense of balance and stability. The works evoke a quiet instability, suggesting a world in perpetual flux, where things are never quite what they seem.
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Selected solo exhibitions include ‘Do not throw trash into the pond’, Sans titre, Paris (2024); ‘Smoky, Moth and Mike’, Ginny on Frederick, London (2023); ‘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 ‘Rewriting Territories’, PALM Gallery, Taipei (2024); ‘by the lattice’, Giovanni’s Room, Los Angeles (2024); the Drawing Biennial, London (2024); ‘Dispatches’, Sans titre, Paris (2024); ‘Reading Stones’, LINDSEED, Shanghai (2023); ‘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).
Hamish Pearch’s exhibition at Belsunce Projects won a grant from Fluxus Art Projects and the artist was a finalist for the XL Caitlin Prize in 2016. In 2024, he took part in the residency program of the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in Milan and at Launch Pad LaB in 2020. In July 2024, the artist will be part in the summer residency program at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, selected by Frances Morris.
