Ian Pearsall Six Towns Sketchbook
Exhibitions
Current Exhibition:
#SixTownsSketchbook by Ian Pearsall
in association with Barewall
15 October – 11 November
I was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1967 to parents from this City of Stoke-On-Trent.
We moved to Malawi when I was one.
At Sixteen I made the choice to leave my parents behind and come to their home that runs in my blood. I’d visited every three years for the family holiday and the big long lines of terraced houses and black gable ends etched themselves into my consciousness.
I don’t remember the smoke but I remember the Shelton Bar sky. I remember it as a blackened blight through the windows of the bus on the way, daily to Newcastle-Under-Lyme college where I painted for A Level and got to grips with the huge cultural and social shift in my life. I loved college, and I left there with a BTec in Art & Design and headed down river, so to speak, for Nottingham Polytechnic. I left there with my B.A (Hons) Degree in Design, but I left as an Artist first and foremost.
#SixTownsSketchbook is the latest stage in the evolution of representing the feelings I have toward this great conurbation. It is shaped by my ongoing walks through an ever changing cityscape, and by the writers and artists that I continue to collaborate with and am influenced by on this journey. I bring everything that I have learned, and continue to learn as an artist in order to shape my work and extend my expression.
It isn’t always pretty but it’s certainly honest. Something which can be said of the City itself.
To find out how to exhibit your work, please contact our Front-of-House Department.
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