Naomi Pearce

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  MA Critical Writing in Art & Design, 2013

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• [email protected]
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  http://www.naomipearce.co.uk

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• Major Project: Workout or The Malady Lingers On

  Never forget that you are more than you could ever imagine. Vitality in 2013. Polystyrene balls burst free from the internal cavity of a nylon cushion; friction draws them to black Lycra tights. Speckled inner thighs and junk food thoughts. Women wield baseball bats as they grimace behind protective plastic goggles. Suppression is Depression. Welcome to Tantrum Club.

  'Workout or The Malady Lingers On' is a textual and visual exploration into the phenomenon of 'the girl' in recent past with excursions into the histories of feminism. Harnessing the fragment as a strategy of resistance, this project attempts to offer the reader a discursive site in the spirit of Roland Barthes' A Lovers Discourse and presents an embodied form of writing inspired by the work of Hélène Cixous, Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus.

• Degrees

• BA (Hons), Textiles, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 2007

• Experience

• Director's assistant, South London Gallery, London, 2008–11; Co-founder and committee member, Woodmill, Artist Studios & Gallery, London, 2009–present; Associate lecturer, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, UAL, London, 2012–present; Programmer, The Conch: A Forum for Critical Discussion, South London Gallery, London, 2011–present

• Exhibitions

• Wendel! Open Your Door, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, 2013; A Band of Colour from a Beam of Light, PAMI Festival, South London Gallery, London, 2012; (In the days of the) ROID, Exhibition as Medium, CRATE Project Space, Margate, 2011; Nicolas Party, Woodmill, London, 2011

• Awards

• Winner, Fluxus Fund Curatorial Grant, 2011

• Publications

• 'The Nomadic Studio', Michael Heilgemeir, Alastair Frazer and Naomi Pearce, Edition Taube, 2013