Pearl Alcock

Pearl Alcock (1934 Jamaica - 2006, London, England)[1] was a club owner and artist, best known as a British outsider artist.

Life and work

Pearl moved to London from Jamaica in her twenties.[2] First finding work as a maid, by the 1970s she had opened a dress shop on Railton Road in Brixton[3] and later ran a cafe[4] and an illegal shebeen, popular with the local gay community,[5] on the same street.

Following the 1985 Brixton Uprising both her shop and bar had failed and she found herself on the dole and unable to afford a birthday card for a friend so she drew one.[3] Monika Kinley, one of the country's leading advocates of Outsider Art, describes her as 'a visual poet'.[6] In 2005 her work was included in Tate Britain's first exhibition of art shown under the term Outsider Art.[7]

Selected exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "Pearl Alcock". artprice.com. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Outsider Art: Exhibition guide: Biographies". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 Kurlansky, Mark (1992). A Continent of Islands: a searching for the Caribbean destiny. Addison-Weasley Publishing. pp. 236–238. ISBN 0201523965.
  4. ↑ Hilton, Tim (30 August 1989). "A Breathe of Eire". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ Cook, Matt (2014). "Capital Stories: Local Lives in Queer London". In Evans, Jennifer V.; Cook, Matt. Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 144114840X. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Stewart, Sue (29 October 2000). "Outsider dealing". The Observer (London, UK). Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Outsider Art, Exhibition Guide, Biographies". Tate Britain. 2005. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Outsider Art, Tate Britain". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  9. ↑ Three Brixton Artists: Pearl Alcock, George Kelly, Michael Ross. 1989.

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