Linda Pearl Izan LSDC

Stitched & Constructed Textiles

About Linda Pearl
Linda Pearl Izan is a textiles/mixed media practitioner based in the United Kingdom; her work is exhibited nationally and internationally with work highlighted on social media, research papers and within printed publications. Previously her full-time art practice focus was within creative education, leading a large and successful Creative and Performing Arts Faculty.
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In her present creative practice Linda Pearl has actively chosen to work with and develop textile techniques and skills, although her work is not exclusively within this area and she will access and exploit mixed media, ceramics, photography and digital media.

The major influences for her practice come from political, environmental, gender and cultural starting points. An idea can hover around for several months or indeed years before the translation of that idea into a body of work, conversely when responding to a fast moving political or social issue ideas are translated swiftly into creative responses. At this point process become the deciphering agent. The choice of a particular textile medium is always cogent to the message that is being explored.

If the message within the work is focused on the disposable material society, she will use gold leaf or marbled velvet to emphasise what is valued and what is not. When the narrative is about human rights, she will interweave text within the work to ensure that the message is explicit; turning stitch into commentary.

Linda Pearl embraces new technologies in partnership with time honoured textile methods. Her creative process calls on digital imagery, appliqué, hand and machine embroidery.

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Qualifications

  • Wolverhampton Polytechnic - B.A(Hons) 3-D Design Ceramics
  • Liverpool Polytechnic - A.T.D. (Art Teachers Diploma)
  • Staffordshire University - Postgraduate Diploma in Design CAD/CAM
  • Coventry University M.A. Electronic-Art

Employment

  • Head of Faculty – Creative Arts South Cheshire College 2000- 2012
  • Full time Creative Practice from 2012

Selected exhibitions

2025

  • Grosvenor Museum 15th Open Art – Chester
  • Contemporary Textiles – Fronteer Gallery – Sheffield
  • ‘AOB’ Prism Textiles Art Pavilion - London

2024

  • ‘HIDDEN” – House of Smalls -Edinburgh
  • 23rd International Mini Textile Exhibition - Bratislava Slovakia
  • V111 International Triennial of Textile Arts - Szombathely Gallery Hungary
  • The15th International Textile and Fibre Art Biennial “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k Ukraine.
  • ‘Garden of Delights on Earth’ - Gallery 47 – London
  • ‘Edgelands’ Prism Textiles Art Pavilion -London
  • ‘Animals’ Fronteer Gallery -Sheffield – UK

2023

  • 'Connections’ Triennial of Mini Textiles 2023 – Sophia -Bulgaria
  • ‘Voyage’ Craft Museum of Finland Jyvaskyla Finland
  • Ferens Art Gallery 2023 Open Exhibition
  • ‘Beneath the Earth’ Fronteer Gallery – Sheffield
  • Scythia 11th International Mini Textiles Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
  • Scythia 3rd International Macro Textiles Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
  • ‘Trespass’ Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) Festival Bath
  • Holborn Group – Guest Artist – Espacio Gallery – London
  • TexpoART – International Triennale of Textile Art – IASI – Romania
  • ‘Warped’ Prism Textile – The Art Pavilion – London

2022

  • Southwark Park Galleries – London
  • Contemporary Arts Festival - Warrington
  • Ty Pawb Open 2022-2023 – Wrexham – Wales
  • TERRA – Espacio Gallery – London
  • The Landscape – Open Gallery – Halifax
  • Contemporary Textiles – Fronteer Gallery - Sheffield
  • The Divine Feminine – Art from Heart Virtual Exhibition
  • ‘Untold’ Prism Textile – The Art Pavilion – London
  • Ferens Art Gallery 2022 Open Exhibition - Hull

2021

  • Featured as ‘Artists of the Month’ Wendy.Network
  • The Knitting & Stitching Self Portrait Competition -Harrogate
  • ‘Fragility’ Prism Textiles The Art Pavilion - London
  • The Knitting & Stitching Self Portrait Competition Alexandra Palace
  • British Textile Biennial: Stitch Your Story 2021 Blackburn
  • ‘The World We Live In’ Groningen, the Netherlands
  • ‘Let Us Eat Cake’ - Pineapple Black Arts Middlesbrough UK
  • Voices of Earth Virtual Exhibition – Art from Heart
  • 10th International Mini Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia"
  • 2nd International Micro Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia
  • Ivano-Frankivs’k Gallery – Ukraine
  • In Celebration of Woman – New Haus & Kofferraum Haus Gallery
  • ‘Let Us Eat Cake’ – Online Exhibition
  • ‘Deconstructing Patriarchy Magazine’ Wendy.NetWork

Membership

  • Prism Textile Group
  • Society for Embroidered Work
  • European Textile Network
  • Society of Designer Craftsmen
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