Christopher Pearson

Christopher Pearson is a contemporary artist from London who specialises in printmaking.

Since March 2026, Pearson has been based in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a Guest Student at Hochschule Hannover, University of Applied Sciences & Arts. Here he is developing a new body of work in the printmaking and ceramics departments whilst he learns German.

Pearson has honed his printmaking skills over many years, using etching, collagraph, carborundum, viscosity, wood-cut, photo-polymer, and silkscreen processes, as well as a practical knowledge of book-binding. In a nutshell, his conceptual concerns comprise alchemy and transformation, time and rhythm, materiality and its performance, and staging an interplay between image-making techniques.

Between November 2024 and March 2026, Pearson worked at the pigment-specialist, art materials shop L. Cornelissen & Son as an Artists' Colourman in Bloomsbury, London. With a dream of pursuing a career in the conservation of art, focusing especially on prints, books and other works of art on paper, Pearson completed his preliminary training through the International Academic Projects: Chemistry for Conservators qualification from September to December 2024.

Pearson was a Printer at Thumbprint Editions from May 2022 to November 2024, where he worked with celebrated artists to develop and produce their editions across a broad range of printmaking disciplines, often incorporating complex layers, hybrid techniques and extensive hand-finishing. He also printed at East London Printmakers as an Artist-Member and Keyholder from January 2020 to December 2022, winning the Printmakers Council Prize in November 2021 at the Festival of Print in Mile End Park, an exhibition of over 120 artists which he helped to organise and curate.

Pearson holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2017-19), during which he was selected to complete an additional Global Art Practice unit in collaboration with Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) from June to September 2018 and 'Stokkøyart', a site-specific residency in Stokkøya, Norway, in September 2019. His MA degree show installation 'Procession' was shortlisted for the 2020 Clifford Chance Sculpture Prize.

Pearson is also a BA (Hons) Art & Design graduate from the School of Design, University of Leeds (2013-17), during which he undertook a 'Year in Industry' across different aspects of the creative industries. His final-year research and installation was awarded the School of Design Prize in 2017.

If you have any questions or are interested in purchasing Pearson's work, please email him at christopher.pearson.artist@gmail.com.