Alex Pearl

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Born: Manchester
Lives: Ipswich

Education
BA hons Fine Art, UCE Birmingham
MA History of Art & Design, UCE Birmingham


Solo Exhibitions
2009, Goodbye to most of the Daydreams, BCA Gallery, Bedford
2008, Persistence of Vision, City Gallery offsite programme, Leicester
2008, Little Deaths, Salt Gallery, Hayle
2006, Canvas Cinema, Explore, Aspex Gallery off site projects, Portsmouth
2006, Automatic Filmmaking, Sideshow, Nottingham

Group Exhibitions
2008
Big Vaudeville 100, Greenroom, Manchester
Reading Experimental Film Festival, Reading
From the Picturesque to the Demolished, Stratford, London
Studio Voltaire Members' Show, Studio Voltaire, London
Open Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Sizemology, BBC Big Screen, Liverpool
There & Then, Axis 08, Airspace, Stoke on Trent
To the Pleasure Garden, Tatton Park Biennial, Manchester
Cheap Like Wow, UAMO 2008, Munich

2007
Intermix, Pavilion, Leeds
Vane Shorts, Vane, Newcastle
RSVP, Contemporary Artists at the Foundling Museum, London (commission & exhibition)
Time Based Media Invitational, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Demolition, Site, Liverpool
Joking Aside, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
Black Light, Colony, Birmingham
700IS Experimental Film & Video Festival, Culture Centre of Fljotsdalsherad, Egilsstadir, Iceland (and touring to Reykjavik, St Petersburg, Arizona and Alsager)
One Minute Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
Digifestival, 2007, Florence
Experimenta 2007, Bangalore & Mumbai
Fresh, South Hill Park, Bracknell
Edge, Kings Lynn
2006
Drawing Links, The Drawing Room, London & Touring to Outpost, Norwich, International3, Manchester Hun Gallery International, Hun Gallery, New York
Purescreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Tulca, Visual Arts festival, Galway
60 seconds of Play. Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, Savannah, Delhi (Touring)
The Vending Machine Project, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (multiples project)
The Moving Picture Show, BCA Gallery, Bedford
Parkgewusel Festival, Vienna, Austria
Darklight, Dublin
Izolenta ’06, International Digital Film Festival, Museum of Cinema, St Petersburg
Streaming Festival {The Hague}, Syntocin, Netherlands
2nd Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
D>Art.06, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, Australia
37 Seconds, BBC Big Screen Liverpool, Clayton Square, Liverpool

2005
Regeneration, WAG at St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich
About Space, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
Trampoline, Reactor, Nottingham
L’Alternativa 2005, 12th Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
Extra Short Film Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia.


Bibliography
“Drawing Links” , The Drawing Room, 2006 (Exhib catalogue)
“RSVP”, Commissions East, 2007 (Exhib catalogue)
Thomas Darby, “The Black Flag Game”, Artists Newsletter, October 2008
Lawrence Bradby, “Joking Aside”, Dialogue, http://www.axisweb.org/dlFULL.aspx?ESSAYID=75
Rupert White, “Alex Pearl”, Art Cornwall, http://www.artcornwall.org/exhibitions/Alex_Pearl.htm


Grants/Awards
2006/7
Selected artist - Escalator Visual Arts, Commissions East
Supported by the Arts Council Awards for Artists scheme


Projects
2008 -2018, The Black Flag Game - a Facebook based artwork
2006- , Protest Films


Publications
“Supernatural”, Garageland06, Transition Gallery, London
Diary of a Foundling Artist, 2007
Feedback, 2006
Journal, 2008
“Michael Samuels, Childstar”, Artists Newsletter, September 2008