About

Dave Pearse is a poet whose work is inspired by nature and local history. He performs his work for audiences across Bristol. 

In 2015 he screened his video work All That Once Stood at Arnolfini as part of Somewhere in the City, an AIM initiated project and exhibition. 

Throughout 2015 and 2016 Dave was involved in Expanding Realities, an EU funded international exchange program between AIM, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, GASP, (Cork Ireland) and Debajo del Sombrero (Madrid, Spain). In Madrid and Cork he integrated his work into the local culture, writing poems based on regional landmarks and history.  

In 2017 as part of the Different Voices workshop, Dave made A Ghostly Inspiration, a piece that has since been screened locally.

As part of Homespun, an AIM exhibition at Spike Island Test Space in March 2018; Dave explored the visual nature of his writing using both scale, pattern and repetition, creating two large text pieces. 

Dave is currently working on a book of poems which is due to be self-published at the end of 2020.