NEW PROJECT: Mindenhurst / Deepcut ‘Princess Royal Barracks’Public Art sculpture commision, presenting a history of the Deepcut area, the Basingstoke Canal, the creation of Deepcut Bridge Road, for Skanska / Surrey County Council – ongoing
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It was great to deliver a workshop at the Harrow Arts Centre, London.
Ever wondered how public art is created? Now’s your chance to find out! On Wednesday, 21st August at 11.30am, artist @tom.pearman is hosting a free hands-on workshop at the former Kodak Factory site, Harrow View East. This session is perfect for 19-26-year-olds curious about the creative process behind public art.
Explore how Tom generates ideas for public sculptures by making simple, experimental models using a mix of graphics and small objects. You’ll even get to photograph your creations with miniature architecture figures to bring them to life!
Gain insight into how public art evolves from concept to final design, with all materials provided. Feel free to bring your own small artworks
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Ever wondered how public art is created? Now’s your chance to find out! On Wednesday, 21st August at 11.30am, artist @tom.pearman is hosting a free hands-on workshop at the former Kodak Factory site, Harrow View East. This session is perfect for 19-26-year-olds curious about the creative process behind public art.
Explore how Tom generates ideas for public sculptures by making simple, experimental models using a mix of graphics and small objects. You’ll even get to photograph your creations with miniature architecture figures to bring them to life!
Gain insight into how public art evolves from concept to final design, with all materials provided. Feel free to bring your own small artworks and objects to incorporate into your models.
Tom Pearman, the appointed artist for the Harrow View East development, has a wealth of experience and is excited to share his process with you. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn from a seasoned professional!
When: Wednesday, 21 August, 11.30am – 1.30pm
Where: Rayner Rooms
Who: 19-26-year-olds, emerging artists and creatives looking to explore public art
🎫 Tickets: FREE (tickets must be booked in advance)
Spaces are limited, so be sure to secure your spot! Supported by @harrowartscentre and part of the @lqhomes development at Headstone Road, Harrow.
Great news to move to the production phase for this exciting project.
Background: A sculptural bench celebrating the new leisure centre, in particular the swimming pool. The sculpture has a flat top surface – the pattern is an optical illusion of depth and will be made from silver granite with polished black granite inlays – ongoing.
FrancisKnight Public Art Consultants are collaborating with Tom Pearman in the development of a public art strategy and concept designs for the L&Q Harrow View East development at Headstone Road, Harrow, London. The Public Art Strategy will be developed to comply with S106 obligations to discharge a public art condition.
Harrow View East is located on the former Kodak Factory site in Harrow, East London. L&Q a leading developer and housing association are delivering 4 phases for the site with 750 new residential apartments from 1 – 3-bedroom flats and maisonettes with private balconies or terraces and shared communal amenity. homes as part of a new neighbourhood.
A sculptural bench celebrating the new leisure centre, in particular the swimming pool. The sculpture has a flat top surface – the pattern is an optical illusion of depth and will be made from silver granite with polished black granite inlays – ongoing.
We are delighted to win the best experimental film category.
A collaboration with film-maker and photographer, Floro Azqueta. The short experimental film, and the production of 4 ‘machines’ fabricated with laser-cut profiles, digital animations and various monitors, explores the former New Landsdowne Social Club, Mare Street, Hackney, London E8, and was screened in the film’s location, the basement of the 195 Mare Street, for the Open House Festival 2023.
Additional sound design by Max and Ben Ringham.
Concept A series of benches which play with the visual language of games, sport, activity and their relationship to wellbeing. A visual language will be developed incorporating intersecting lines of bold colour to reference sport court lines for basketball, football, table tennis etc. in a dynamic and overlapping pattern.
More news to follow
It’s been great to finally get some good photographs of the project…These are a series of stools celebrating the Cambridge designed, PYE TELEVISION 1937 – A 5-inch Pye television receiver was priced at 21 guineas and within two years the company had sold 2000 sets at an average price of £34. 1949 Pye claimed to be ‘The largest TV manufacturer in Britain’.
SOON TO BE INSTALLED. MACHINED BOULDER FACE AND GRAPHICS. GREAT TO BE AWARDED NEW PUBLIC ART COMMISSION FOR GUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL
The public art commission sited at Foxenden Quarry Play Area, for Guildford Borough Council involves a series of bespoke sandblasted granite boulders, celebrating the WW2 Foxenden Quarry Deep Shelter.
More information to follow….
My proposal shows two natural seating sculptures. These features could be stand alone and which also have a varying degree of influence on other public seating and other public realm features designed for the area, such as planters, cycle stands and business area divides.
In summary, I would like to draw upon the heritage of Kings Street to deliver a public art scheme that embraces its history and presented using a contemporary design aesthetic. I would aim to employ both traditional and modern materials and fabrication techniques to present a series of artwork that appealed to large local demographic, and to complement the overall enhancement strategy for the vicinity.
I was delighted to be shortlisted for the exciting Moda, Hove Central Public Art Project for the new Hove Station Quarter district development sited on land between Hove Park–Shoreham Road and the railway line–seafront on Sackville Road.
The aim of the project was to create meaningful interpretative artistic designs within the location’s shared public space.
The proposed project was to provide a graphic architectural intervention with the main development’s access stairway into the main public concourse, celebrating famous natural and man-made landmarks of the area.
The public art commission sited at Foxenden Quarry Play Area, for Guildford Borough Council involves a series of bespoke sandblasted granite boulders, celebrating the WW2 Foxenden Quarry Deep Shelter.
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PART OF AN EXCITING PROJECT FINALLY COMPLETED FOR CAMBRIDGE IRON WORK MILL ROAD #PUBLICART #COMMISSION – STEAM POWER – This one is part of a series celebrating The Eagle Foundry where In the 1850’s under the partnership of Headly & Manning, a wide variety of steam powered machinery and engines were manufactured including engine boilers, gasometers and pumps for use on the land or for drainage. The sculpture has been positioned on an expansion joint of the elevation and plays with a lever’s open or close position…
READY TO BE INSTALLED FOR ALDI UK, BESPOKE PUBLIC ART BESPOKE SEATING AND CYCLE STAND COMMISSION, ABINGDON, OXFORDSHIRE.
More news to follow
AWARDED PUBLIC ART BESPOKE SEATING PUBLIC ART COMMISSION CELEBRATING THE STRAW PLAITING INDUSTRY IN HOUGHTON REGIS, BEDFORDSHIRE.
The site sits on a key gateway into the Bidwells West development which is delivering up to 1850 new homes, across 5 new landscape character areas.
Recently installed – More news / photos to follow.
It was great to deliver an animated Gif session with students at Abingdon & Witney College, Oxford, as part of the ALDI UK, BESPOKE PUBLIC ART BESPOKE SEATING AND CYCLE STAND COMMISSION, ABINGDON, OXFORDSHIRE.
WHAT DO WE HOLD DEAR?
All Saints View, supported living accommodation. Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire. Completion: December 2022. This is an arts project which will ask Houghton Regis residents of all ages ‘What do you hold dear?’ Together, we will create a collection of objects and stories which will be recorded and translated into a permanent artwork for the foyer of All Saints View for all to see and enjoy. The artwork will present a community collection which reflects on the histories and objects which are significant to Houghton Regis residents, young, old and those who came before us. It will be accompanied with audio recordings made through conversation and reflection.
The site sits on a key gateway into the Bidwells West development which is delivering up to 1850 new homes, across 5 new landscape character areas.
More photographs to follow / More information HERE
Part of the Mill Road, Iron Works public art commission for Cambridge Investment Partnership.
I am excited to be shortlisted for the Critical Bestiaries of AI: Reimagining Monsters, project.
The Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH), based at the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, is looking for an artist with experience in facilitation and designing participatory practical workshops, to join an exciting public engagement project focused on important issues of AI governance called – “Critical Bestiaries of AI: Reimagining Monsters” – supported by TORCH via the Minderoo-Oxford Challenge Fund.
Project background
Working with researchers from the WEH, University of Oxford and the IT University of Copenhagen, the project’s goal is to bring the publics’ attention to aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that require oversight and regulation. We will do this by creating an “AI bestiary”, a collection of AI beasts or monsters representing areas of AI technology that are in need of governance. Teams of Oxford researchers who work on AI from various perspectives (for example, those who create AI-based computer programs, or who look at ethical and social implications of introducing AI in society) and monster studies will create the bestiary during facilitated workshops with the artist and lead researcher.
The PUBLIC ART COMMISSION for the new bandstand will be located within a new community park (Green Park), Linmere, and will provide a public facility for residents. More news to follow.
More photographs to follow / More information HERE
TRAIN SIGNAL / SWITCH – The Eagle Foundry (pink) occupying the central part of what was to become the Council Storeyard. Land to left between Foundry and rear gardens of Kingston Street houses, and to right between Foundry and railway, under different ownership (1886 OS map) 2 location options
It’s been great to have the opportunity to install a 3×3 M vinyl poster on the exterior of the Grade II listed, Gayhurst Community School in Hackney. The poster showcases the project, involving 10 primary schools as part of the Arts Council funded project, E8 UFO. The background for the poster is from the Rio Cinema’s wonderful Tape and Slide archive, more information HERE
And keep an eye for a display of the project at the Rio Cinema’s foyer!
I’m delighted to be shortlisted for the significant Commission for Chatham Waterfront. Built in the 1960s, Chatham Waterfront Pumping Station is in a prominent location and visually stands out due to its red brick façade. Tired and in desperate need of a makeover, the pumping station is an operational building owned by Southern Water. Over the years, previous proposals have suggested concealing the pump house, however as part of the regeneration of the waterfront Medway Development Company will reinstate its former and distinctive architectural form.
The public art commission for this site will complement the building’s refurbishment and the new public space and plaza, which sits directly in front of it, acting as a backdrop. Artists will be asked to consider how the building and new public space interact with each other and the wider waterfront scheme.
Development Partner: Medway Development Company Landscape Architects: Exterior
Public Art Consultants: FrancisKnight
FABRICATION IS COMPLETE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO INSTALLING FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
STEREOSCAN – The Stereoscan was the first commercial scanning electron microscope in the world. It could magnify up to around 100,000 times. It was developed at the University of Cambridge’s Engineering department in 1965. It was named ‘one of the 100 most significant new technical products of the year’.
FABRICATION IS COMPLETE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO INSTALLING FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
These are to be installed as a series of stools celebrating the Cambridged designed, PYE TELEVISION 1937 – A 5-inch Pye television receiver was priced at 21 guineas and within two years the company had sold 2000 sets at an average price of £34. 1949 Pye claimed to be ‘The largest TV manufacturer in Britain’.
INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF SWITCHES AND LEVERS FOR THE PROJECT
POSITIONED ON AN EXPANSION JOINT CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE LOCATION WITH A STEAM POWERED MACHINE’S LEVER.
A Covid-safe collaborative public art project involving 11 Hackney primary schools and over 600 pupils!
Throughout film and literature science fiction we have been captivated with travelling to another inhabited planet, being visited by aliens or documenting unidentified flying objects. Exploring this cultural phenomenon, whilst questioning our own, and our ‘distant neighbours’ cultural identity, we will produce our own ‘faux’ TV and NEWSPAPER UFO reports.
Art resource packs will be provided to the schools and the project will delivered by each individual school. Key to the project will be a series of introductory and how to films involving creative professionals.
These 3 FILMS can be found HERE
Using a collection of local archive architecture photographs, from The Rio Tape/Slide Archive and Hackney Archives, we will create 3d collages as an overlay to well known locations, to create an alternative fictional narrative to what was once familiar. For instance, ‘THE E8 UFO’ or ‘THE UFO THAT SWALLOWED MY SHOP’.
Posters will potentially be printed up to billboards size and adhered temporarily to the schools’ exterior, (and potentially the locations used as the poster’s backdrop), including surfaces such as brick. My aims are to deliver a high quality collaborative public art project teaching key creative skills to a lower socio-economic and culturally diverse target groups.
My aim is also to deliver this project now to provide a rich, rewarding, professionally delivered art project during a Covid-restrictive period.
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I’m very excited to receive approval for a series of enamel switches for a new Community Centre in Cambridge as part of the Mill Road project I’m involved in…more news to follow…..
FABRICATION IS COMPLETE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO INSTALLING IN JULY- FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF SWITCHES AND LEVERS FOR THE PROJECT
POSITIONED ON AN EXPANSION JOINT CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE LOCATION WITH A STEAM POWERED MACHINE’S LEVER.
I’m pleased to be invited to submit a proposal for a public art commission in Stewartby, celebrating the London Brick Company. Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company. The village was designed and built to the plans of the company’s architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on ‘Garden City’ principle.
The project is to integrate a series of public artworks into a new Persimmon development and playground.
ARTS COUNCIL EDUCATION PROJECT gains momentum, with support from Hackney Borough Council and Hackney Museum.
Project summary: To deliver a Covid-safe collaborative public art project involving local Hackney primary schools. Throughout film and literature science fiction we have been captivated with travelling to another inhabited planet, being visited by aliens or documenting unidentified flying objects. Exploring this cultural phenomenon, whilst questioning our own, and our ‘distant neighbours’ cultural identity, we will produce our own ‘faux’ sc-fi film posters, book covers and newspaper articles. It will also involve talks by creative professionals presented in an introductory film. Using a collection of local archive architecture photographs, for e.g. local library or shop parade, and text from newspaper clippings, we will create 3d collages as an overlay to well known locations, to create an alternative fictional narrative to what was once familiar. For instance, ‘THE E8 UFO’ or ‘THE UFO THAT SWALLOWED MY SHOP’. Posters will potentially be printed up to billboards size and adhered temporarily to the schools’ exterior, (and potentially the locations used as the poster’s backdrop), including surfaces such as brick. The quantity and size of posters would be dependant on cooperation from the corresponding site. My aims are to deliver a high quality collaborative public art project teaching key creative skills to a lower socio-economic and culturally diverse target groups. My aim is also to deliver this project now to provide a rich, rewarding, professionally delivered art project during a Covid-restrictive period.
The public art commission sited at Foxenden Quarry Play Area, for Guildford Borough Council involves a series of bespoke sandblasted granite boulders, celebrating the WW2 Foxenden Quarry Deep Shelter – MORE
LOOKING FORWARD TO STARTING FABRICATION – FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF SWITCHES AND LEVERS FOR THE PROJECT
POSITIONED ON AN EXPANSION JOINT CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE LOCATION WITH A STEAM POWERED MACHINE’S LEVER.
The project is being commissioned to enrich the new development and enhance the public space provided through the scheme. The focus for the artwork is to be the shared communal spaces and clear, legible routes through the development.
Being inspired by other fellow artists to join the Artist’s Pledge scheme I’ve signed up!….
THIS ONE WENT ONTO A PIEICE OF 30M ARCHITECTURAL GLASS PUBLIC ART AT THE LONDON PRINT STUDIO…..
#artistsupportpledge ‘BLOCK II’ Hand pulled silkscreen on Somerset paper 76 x 58 cm unframed Edition of 16 £180 + p+p //
ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE is a generous culture and dynamic economy in support of artists and makers. The concept is a simple one, post images of your work to sell for NO MORE (can be less) than £200 each (not including shipping.) Anyone can then buy the work. Every time you reach £1000 of sales you pledge to buy another artist/s work for £200.So make a pledge and post your work using #artistsupportpledge and follow the #. keep updated on news and further opportunities @artistsupportpledge and www.artistsupportpledge.com
OPENING SOON – I shall shortly be opening an online ‘SHAPE SHOP’ page, where a few different artworks and project merchandise can be purchased, or downloaded for free. Available will include screen-prints, t-shirts, wall-mounted glass artworks and pieces from my collection which have been made either as an edition or a one-off. MORE
Excited to be shortlisted for the Urban GreenUP Multiple Commission, a 2020 ‘ Nature Based Solution’ project under the EU SMART AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES programme. In Liverpool the partner organisations involved in URBAN GreenUP are the City Council, Mersey Forest and the University of Liverpool. Collectively the Liverpool partners have received approximately £3.4m to deliver the programme of work. The work in Liverpool is taking place in 3 areas: Business Improvement District / City Centre, Jericho Lane / Otterspool and the Baltic Corridor which this project is part of. MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW.
Previously, funded by the London Mayor’s Air Quality Fund Tom Pearman was commissioned to design a series of enamel signs to be located within the Brockley area in South London. The locations included a public library a public housea station cafe and 3 local schools. Each artwork has a different positive message on a different opening box that contains ‘CLEANER AIR’. MORE
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Tom is currently in the early stages of developing a project for a series of inlayed cast relief ‘ice creams and lollies’. Employing cast and water jet cutting technology on materials such as brass, granite, vitreous enamel and glass, the project aims to explore these summer treats with contrasted material choice whilst hopefully maintaining their mouth watering qualities. MORE.
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Work is underway developing the artworks for Mill Road, Cambridge project – more news to follow…
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF SWTCHES AND LEVERS FOR THE PROJECT, POSITIONED ON AN EXPANSION JOINT CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE LOCATION WITH A STEAM POWERED MACHINE’S LEVER.
The project is being commissioned to enrich the new development and enhance the public space provided through the scheme. The focus for the artwork is to be the shared communal spaces and clear, legible routes through the development.
On a recent road trip through Italy I explored a series of ‘Unidentified Towers’. Taking inspiration from visiting the Seattle Space Needle last year I’ve endeavored to find architecture with similar hidden agendas.
AS PART OF THE ONGOING MILL ROAD CAMBRIDGE PROJECT, I HELD AN EVENT AT THE CAMBRIDGE MUSEUM OF TECHNOLOGY EVENT. EXPLORING TYPE AND FONT IN THE PRINT WORKSHOP AND PRINTING ONTO ORIGAMI SWITCHES WAS A GREAT WAY TO SHOWCASE THE CURRENT CONCEPT FOR THE PUBLIC ART PROJECT. More information to follow.
A mapping project for Hill developers for a major housing development on Mill Road, Cambridge, is complete and ready to adorn the 5M interior wall of their marketing suite – more info to follow…
The project is to design, fabricate and install a series of illuminated neon, enamel work or industrial signs, symbols and letters across our four key buildings/venues and historic Hat District that reference the hat making industry of the past and the creative enterprise of tomorrow.
FINISHING TOCHES FOR AN INSTALLATION FOR ‘THE END OF ROAD FESTIVAL 2019’ – AN X-RAY MACHINE FROM ANOTHER WORLD IS TO BE MADE TO TRANSPORT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INTO THE SPIRITUAL WORLD OF EXTRA TERRESTRIAL BEINGS AND BEASTS….more to follow….
Join the creative team – right in the heart of the Mill Road community – for art, conversation – and explore the past present and future of neighbourhood.
Great to be involved in what proved to be a great start to a series of exciting and engaging community events, introducing and promoting the project, artists and aims – more news to follow –
EXCITED TO WORK ON AN INSTALLATION FOR ‘THE END OF ROAD FESTIVAL 2019’ – AN XRAY MACHINE FROM ANOTHER WORLD IS TO BE MADE TO TRANSPORT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INTO THE SPIRITUAL WORLD OF EXTRA TERRESTRIAL BEINGS AND BEASTS.
The Institute for Animal Spirit Guides was developed for the Fling Festival and was very popular there for two years in a row. This time we would like to develop it further and incorporate making activities and a larger shadow screen. Both outings we were overwhelmed with the enthusiasm for the spirit guide test. What is interesting is that despite being obviously a spoof and a lighthearted artwork, participants cannot help but take aspects of it seriously. In the last installation participants were encouraged to ask their spirit guides a question. Often these were genuine questions about their lives. This makes touching and thought provoking interactions and interesting discussion amongst participants.
MORE:
tompearman.co.uk/projects/planet-x-ray-end-of-road-festival-2019/
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The project is being commissioned to enrich the new development and enhance the public space provided through the scheme. The focus for the artwork is to be the shared communal spaces and clear, legible routes through the development.
As the appointed artist I will be required to develop an artwork, or series of artworks, which enhances the setting for the new residential development on the former depot site, referencing the distinctive context of Mill Road.
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Pleased to be shortlisted and asked to interview for United Communities art installation to the Elderberry Walk regeneration development site, Southmead, Bristol. United Communities are building 161 new homes in Southmead on an old primary school site (Dunmail school) Works are being carried out by the contractor Engie and started in July 2018 with due to completion 2020. The project is for an artistic installation to the site that will both improve the appearance to the site and reflect the great work being done with the community here.
The project is being commissioned to enrich the new development and enhance the public space provided through the scheme. The focus for the artwork is to be the shared communal spaces and clear, legible routes through the development.
The appointed artist will be required to develop an artwork, or series of artworks, which enhances the setting for the new residential development on the former depot site, referencing the distinctive context of Mill Road.
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PEER Notices is a programme which will enable artists to collaborate with young people involved in PEER Ambassadors to create engaging artworks and events for local people in Hoxton. PEER Ambassadors is a programme that provides paid employment and free cultural learning opportunities for young people from BAME and lower socio-economic backgrounds, including the chance to work with the lead PEER Notices artists on artistic projects. Both are part of a two-year programme supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
The project is to design, fabricate and install a series of illuminated neon, enamel work or industrial signs, symbols and letters across our four key buildings/venues and historic Hat District that reference the hat making industry of the past and the creative enterprise of tomorrow.
Newlands Place Public Art Project is part of a new housing development on Larges Lane, Bracknell.
‘a space’ arts have been appointed as the public art consultant to deliver this project on behalf Stonewater Procurement ltd.
I have been asked to present a proposal for the project later on in January.
Through Kaleidoscope eyes’ is a public art commission, now complete, for Tideway who are constructing the immense Thames Tideway Tunnel a major new sewer, urgently needed to help protect the tidal River Thames from increasing sewage pollution.
The project was installed recently, more photographs to follow.
Pearman has been asked to put a proposal forward for a new phase of the public art programme in Stotfold, Bedfordshire. More news to follow…
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Currently preparing for an exciting interview for Essex Cultural Diversity Project @essex_cdp #publicart #publicartcommssion to explore their aspirations for #Harlow Sculpture Town 2019 and promote #Diversity @yourharlow @GibberdGallery2 @HarlowWR @HarlowSculpture @ace_national
MORE https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/optical-sign-design-for-harlow-essex/
I am delighted to be asked to attend an interview to discuss my approach for a new exciting public art opportunity in Harlow, Essex.
ECDP is now an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) with a key role to play across Essex and the East of England in continuing to support diversity in arts and cultural practice. Their key strategy to achieve this is through a programme of exciting but challenging place-based commissions for artists to work in areas of Essex where there are opportunities to explore diversity through their practice. For 2018-19 they are focusing on five towns/places where community engagement in the arts has been traditionally low – Canvey Island, Harlow, Basildon, Grays and Jaywick Sands. Harlow is the focus of this commission.
I’m very pleased to be currently shortlisted for a new public art project with CHILD GRADDON LEWIS DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS, enhancing the river frontage of a new office development in Guildford – ongoing
MORE HERE https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/pembroke-house-commission/
Neon signs, symbols & letters in Luton’s Hat District is one of a series of commissions to shine a light on the area once more, to celebrate and respond to the heritage of the area and broaden publicengagement with Luton’s heritage, stories and spaces.
The project is to design, fabricate and install a series of illuminated neon, enamel work or industrial signs, symbols and letters across our four key buildings/venues and historic Hat District that reference the hat making industry of the past and the creative enterprise of tomorrow.
Through Kaleidoscope eyes’ is a public art commission, due for completion in Autumn 2018, for Tideway who are constructing the immense Thames Tideway Tunnel a major new sewer, urgently needed to help protect the tidal River Thames from increasing sewage pollution.
This 24 metre long, Di-bond printed hoarding represents a body of work lead by artist Emily Tracy responding to the ecology of King Georges Park, Wandsworth, and reflects a public programme of events in November 2017. This participatory programme, managed by Emily included an opportunity for participants to engage with a local bee keeper, The Wandle Trust, and The Garden Classroom. Local residents were invited to create their own collages, generate ideas, gather reflections and stories about King George’s Park. These will be incorporated into the final artwork which will be installed in spring 2018 for a duration of 2 years.
As part of an ongoing graphic novel /e-book that I am developing, a trip to Seattle USA is starting tomorrow, to visit the infamous Space Needle.
The theme of the short story is a hybrid “Wizard of Oz’ with an Ufo / sc fi twist! – more news to follow.
new glass artworks in the pipeline…more news to follow
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I was commissioned by originalprojects; to design a presentation of a train enthusiast’s photographic collection as part of Great Yarmouth Expo, a project that collects and celebrates cultural artefacts, personalities and customs from the people of Great Yarmouth.
The display shows a small selection of photographs of trains taken by Mark Potton at Great Yarmouth Station taken over a 50 year period.
I took Mark’s photographs and reflected and repeated them to present a contemporary interpretation that draws attention to the common vanishing point. The sense of movement also suggests a looking back to the past to find a way forward. The ring-binder motif and handwritten notes acknowledge the local source of the collection.
I’m very pleased to be shortlisted for the TOWER BRIDGE RESIDENCY 2018. A very exciting opportunity to work on a project for one of the world’s most iconic landmarks. My proposal is to include a series of origami / model paper tools and components. More news to follow.
Post production is kept to a minimum in documenting a series of space stations over Hackney Marshes.
TRYING SOME PAPER MODEL MAKING AS PART OF AN APPLICATION I’M MAKING – HOPE TO GET THIS PROJECT SO MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW….
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The title ‘WAREHAUS’ comes from a nearby ‘unaffordable’ housing development. It is the start of new series of wall-mounted glass artworks offset form the backing – to offer a contrast between the graphic shapes and soft coloured shadows created.
Artist Tom Pearman has been commissioned by originalprojects; to design a presentation of a train enthusiast’s photographic collection as part of Great Yarmouth Expo, a project that collects and celebrates cultural artefacts, personalities and customs from the people of Great Yarmouth.
The display shows a small selection of photographs of trains taken by Mark Potton at Great Yarmouth Station taken over a 50 year period.
As with the ‘Planets’ series, ‘Orbits’ is the start of a larger project, referencing Andrei Tarkovsky’s film, Solaris (1971).
The new series expands the series into the realm of UFOs….
For a recent project application my proposal involved a sea side ice cream sculpture, providing information on the Wales Coastal Path…Let’s see how that is received and hopefully more news to follow….
This is a 15mb 25 page pdf file showcasing selected projects which can saved to your desktop.
For prospective clients a 2018 pdf catalogue has been made available. This will enable Pearman’s projects to be presented offering a synopsis of his practice.
I am currently making a series of maquettes for several potential public art commissions, based upon working with panel materials and presenting them in a three-dimensional configuration.
This will enable me to broaden my scope for working with a ‘flat’ bespoke materials, such as enamel and glass, and / or a combination of both. ‘TURNING THE FLAT AROUND’
More news / photos to follow…
MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW
WORKING WITH http://originalprojects.space/about-originalprojects/ ON THE PROJECT….
part of Making Waves Together http://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/business/regeneration-projects/making-waves-together/
part of the Great Place Scheme (https://www.greatplacescheme.org.uk/).
MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW
A new series of artworks exploring the commercial printing techniques employed for postcard production in the 1960s.
https://tompearman.co.uk/artworks/category/all/
As part of an ongoing graphic novel /e-book that I am developing, a trip to Seattle USA is planned, to visit the infamous Space Needle.
The theme of the short story is a hybrid “Wizard of Oz’ with an Ufo / sc fi twist! – more news to follow.
The large wall-mounted artwork is located on a prominent wall space within the development and has used particular colours and font with an Art-Deco style, to reflect the important period when there was significant infrastructure growth in Croydon. These signs and artworks are created using vitreous enamel on steel – this is the same material and technique that is still used today for signage utilised by the rail transport network in London, both overground and underground.
Tom has referenced folding train map pamphlets for the artwork which was also employed for a flyer distributed to local residents intorducing them to the project.
Thank you
Students from the University of Greenwich/Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance ‘Musicians in Education’ PGCE programme
@TimDPalmer @TrinityLaban and for the GREAT music COLLABORATION @BrunelMuseum – MORE INFO:
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/brunel-museum-collaboration/
EVERYTHING TESTED AND UP AND RUNNING AT BRUNEL MUSEUM FOR SEPTEMBER….MORE TO FOLLOW….MORE INFO HERE
START OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ARTWORK BEGINS…..
Currently writing text for a science fiction graphic novel, which begins with a story of a business man UFO spotting in Ireland….
…preparing some geometric engineered shapes for projection with Anne Krinsky at Brunel Museum at the end of Summer 17…more news to follow..
more news to follow….
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/croydon-public-art-commission/
Funded by the London Mayor’s Air Quality Fund, Tom Pearman has been commissioned to design a series of enamel signs to be located in the Brockley area. Each artwork has a different positive message on a different opening box that contains ‘CLEANER AIR’. It is hoped through this public art scheme and through active public consultation and educational art workshops, that the artworks will help foster a collaborative and creative approach towards promoting cleaner air quality.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
tompearman.co.uk/projects/lewisham-council-cleaner-air-signage
The recently awarded project will consist of enamelled work creating signage/wayfinding elements for the housing development. The project will explore connections with the site as it borders the old Addiscombe station site. This is an exciting opportunity for myself using the traditional medium for station signage in a contemporary context.
installation has began for the cladding public art commission…more news to follow
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/lewisham-council-street-signage/
Artist Anne Krinsky and myself began to experiment with projected imagery, which was very successful for us…more news to follow…
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/brunel-museum-collaboration/
The project will consist of enamelled work creating signage/wayfinding elements for the housing development. The project will explore connections with the site as it borders the old Addiscombe station site. This is an exciting opportunity for myself using the traditional medium for station signage in a contemporary context.
Reading Borough Council wishes to commission an artist to create a public art commission for the Whitley Wood area of Reading – MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW
more news to follow…
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/lewisham-council-street-signage/
The collaboration will involve a light projected installation and will take place in the Thames Tunnel Shaft of the Brunel Museum in September 2017.
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/lewisham-council-street-signage/
Metal gladding and glazing project to adorn new building in Stotfold…
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/cloud-testing/
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/stotford-new-community-building/
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/category/selected-glass/
Working with the great drawings from a Big draw project with a local primary school a series of enamel artworks are planned to be installed in the playground. The aim is present their drawings in an engaging an exciting site specific format….more info…
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/playground-consequences/
fake / faux, call it what you like, but it’s often better than the real thing…more to follow…
NEW TESTS IN PROGRESS FOR WALL MOUNTED AGLASS WORKS
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/category/selected-glass/
As part of the PUBLIC ART COMMISSION: COMMUNITY HALL, STOTFOLD, CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE, a visit was made to the home of MICHEAL EVERITT to discover what an amazing collection of stotfold artefacts he has collected over the years. Below are some photos that starts to touch upon his collection…more details to follow. Thank you Micheal for your contributions and hospitality, it really is greatly appreciated.
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/stotfold-arts/the-amazing-collection-of-micheal-everitt/
Arts Council funding for the project Tide LIne Thames has been confirmed so am really excited to exploring some site-specific ideas with Anne Krinsky for the project which will be located at the BRUNEL MUSEUM Thames Tunnel Shaft, in London. More news to follow…
more news to follow…
FOR THE LATEST:
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/brockley-corridor-arts/
We’d like to say thank you to everyone that contributed their time and energy into taking part in a creative session exploring memories and local history of the Stotfold area. These memories and time lines related to the respective institutions of the attendees. Using a grid format to enter details, this visual format presented a variety of facts and memories similar in a way to that of a family tree. It’s hoped that some kind of similar format for the final artworks will be introduced so that written information can be presented in a visually pleasing fashion. MORE INFO…
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/stotfold-arts/creative-session-with-salvation-army-and-womens-institute/
As part of a large-scale public art project for Central Bedfordshire Council, Tom is collaborating with community groups and schools of Stotfold in the creation of typewriter artworks…more info… https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/stotford-new-community-building/
more info….http://www.tompearman.co.uk/gayhurstarts/
more info… https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/lewisham-council-street-signage/
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/sightings/03-12-2010
Celestial constellation discovered in icy Stockholm
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/sightings/29-12-2015
More information on the project specific website:
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/stotfold-arts/
The additional funding will help deliver the project to meet the schemes aspirations and aims.
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/lewisham-council-street-signage/
As part of a large scale public art project https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/stotford-new-community-building/ , Tom undertook the first of series of workshops with pupils from Etonbury Academy. more news to follow…and it’s trickier than you think…
check http://www.tompearman.co.uk/gayhurstarts/ for more details….
Tom is currently organizing an event with Gayhurst community school involving a mass consequences game for every pupil and teacher of the school. The drawings made will form the foundation for a series of playground artworks.
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/gayhurstarts/
The event is to tie in with the Big Draw Festival the their theme for the year, Every drawing Tells a Story.
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/gayhurstarts/
The school event will also attempt to break a Guinness World Record.
More new to follow and project website…
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/gayhurstarts/
MOST OF MY WORK PLAYS WITH AN ILLUSION OF FORM THROUGH USING FLAT MEDIUMS…clouds are the least flat you can get i think so producing them large scale using vitreous enamel panels for a building’s facade should a move in th right direction….
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/stolford-new-community-building/
Positive meeting with great members of brockley coommunity to help establish a series of vitreous enamel artworks to promote cleaner air quality and funded by the majors Clean Air Quality Fund….http://www.tompearman.co.uk/brockley-corridor-arts/
Finalising move to great new studio after nearly 15 years at Cremer Street off the Hackney Road. New studio sits next to the River Lea, near the Olympic Park so can practice my competition diving and 100M sprint in my lunch break.
BACK IN SEPTEMBER – I’m working on a few projects whilst there, including a JAWS project planned whilst at Cap Cod, New England, location of Spielberg’s infamous 1975 film. PLEASE CHECK MY BLOG FOR NEWS….
more news to follow…
http://www.tompearman.co.uk/sightings/
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I was pleased to able to attend the Crofton Park local assembly last night and give an introduction to the public art project I’m developing for Lewisham Council. The project is part of a wider regeneration scheme for the Brockley area…. http://www.tompearman.co.uk/brockley-corridor-arts/
I went to the great soap box race at Alexandra Palace, plans afoot for community public art project…more news to follow…
…. for a series of collaborative based wall relief art works exploring the game of consequences / misfits within a cultural context of Hackney and the wider London area and its architecture and community. Tbc – ongoing
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‘Warehaus’ refers to the title of a private development of ‘unaffordable housing’, near to where I live. The artworks consist of two layers – more information to follow.
proposal submitted for the
b-side Festival 2016
http://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/open-call-bside-festival/212
NORTHERN IRELAND HOSPICE - CALL FOR PUBLIC ARTISTS/CREATIVE DESIGN TEAMS – CURRENTLY SHORTLISTED
Northern Ireland Hospice is rebuilding the Adult Hospice, Somerton Road, Public Art Programme is supporting NI Hospice with the development of an Integrated Public Arts Project for this rebuild. The project involves among other architectural artwork elements.
More news to follow
project underway…watch this space…more information to follow…
https://tompearman.co.uk/projects/lewisham-council-street-signage/
A collection of images focusing on Pearman’s glass artworks and projects
tompearmansideas.blogspot.co.uk
An informal look at the inspiration behind Tom’s public art projects and artworks
Design concept:
A public art design, which reflects on the history of Stotfold and celebrates the community of contemporary Stotfold. Each elevation will be designed to create a bold visual impact from a distance, but on viewing at close proximity will reveal detail and small-scale interest.
This approach aims to provide lasting interest for visitors to the building whereby the design creates lasting interest over several viewings.
Each panel will depict a heritage aspect of Stotfold; steam power, the water mill agriculture and nature. But on closer viewing, aspects of the designs will reveal themselves to be made from text. For the mill and steam designs, text would be used to form the lines of the imagery and examples showing this process have been included.
The text will create a multilayered richness both visually and thought provoking. In this way contemporary Stotfold will be woven into the design.
MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW
PROJECT BACKGROUND
ʻBrockley Corridorʼ Public art commission. As part of Lewisham Council’s regeneration scheme, Transport for London is funding a series of art interventions to promote the environment and air pollution and ‘green’ modes of transport. Pearman has been commissioned to design a series of enamel signs to be located along the site.
A series of faux entrances using a combination of plastic and printed glass. more news to follow.
Lidl UK wish to appoint an artist to design and create a series of artworks for a new store opening in Cardiff in February 2015. The store will be located on Leckwith Road. More news to follow.
Northern Ireland Hospice is rebuilding the Adult Hospice, Somerton Road, Public Art Programme is supporting NI Hospice with the development of an Integrated Public Arts Project for this rebuild. The project involves among other architectural artwork elements.
Reporting to a designated Project Panel (named below), an experienced artist is sought to design a site-specific, innovative, timeless and high quality artwork (or series of artworks) for integration into the external public realm / landscaped areas of the scheme.
It is anticipated that the work produced in response to this brief will be largely focussed on the retaining wall at block B but will extend to the retaining walls in the vicinity of blocks A and C, as well as providing aesthetic treatment of the hotel’s associated landscaped areas and pathways.
The public art at the site is expected to serve as an aesthetic narrative for a pedestrian audience – as shown in the following images – and will be clearly visible from nearby highways.
IDEAS : PEOPLE : PLACES, An arts strategy to embed the arts in a genuine and meaningful way, in a small number of imaginative and innovative regeneration projects, funded by the Arts Council of Wales.
Tom was commissioned by ArtsReach to undertake a series of creative sessions under the above project.
Tom worked at Holyhead Secondary school in the technology department. He devised a series of sessions in collaboration with head of department and local artist Tim Dickinson. UsingMinecraft as a platform the students designed a sreies of imaginary environments that housed a Minecraft architectural structure. This structure was devised without practical constraints or limitations, embracing the ideological notion of utopia.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Based upon the inspirational short film ‘Powers of Ten’, a short American documentary written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames, Pearman is exploring the powers of microcosm and microcosm. The discoveries are showcased as a series of architectural glass designs for two stairwell windows in the school.
Tom collaborated with several classes from the school to explore microcosm and marcocosm as seen through optical devises such as binoculas, magnifiying glasses and microscopes.
Cardiff Council would like to commission an artist to design, create and implement painting and sculptural relief (concrete casting) along the internal walls of the Glenwood Subway,
The environmental improvements to the subway are funded by the Neighbourhood Regeneration department at Cardiff Council.
