Pearman has been selected as the artist and consultant for a Capital Build Programme for Burnham on Crouch Primary School. His input will involve integrating artwork into the redesign of the school, including an architectural glass application to the new assembly hall main glazing.

Pearman is developing a series of artworks that investigates our relationship toward the built environment. How do we perceive the architecture that surrounds us? How might we (as an architect or an artist might), represent the built environment on a flat two-dimensional surface? What simple and effective illusions can we employ in order to give shapes volume, depth and perspective?
Tom has attempted to answer these questions by an artwork puzzle that perhaps asks questions itself. In education, aren't the right questions more important than the answers...?

The above subjects were explored in a series of creative sessions with the pupils of the schools.
Miniature three-dimensional sets were made, including a 'background' and 'foreground'. These would be similar to an artist's maquette, an architect's model or a filmmaker's set design model. The children themselves then photographed these 'sets'. These framed photographs will then be enlarged to a large format and displayed in the schools.

For another Capital Build Project for Winter Garden Primary School the artworks explore a sense of an opening, doorway or journey to another world, place or culture. This is to be represented by the introduction of artworks that take on the appearance of a false door or window. These artworks reflect a theme that is found in children's literature in books by C S Lewis and Lewis Carol, for example. The theme of travelling somewhere in one's imagination is a fun and exciting, is part of the creative process, and is a process that children employ throughout the day as part of their learning, problem solving and playing.

A public art scheme for Guilford housing Association situated in a local playground using bespoke industrial plastic panels, under the Percent for Art programme is now under way, more news to follow...