Alan Pergusey West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Alan Pergusey is a visual artist. He is a painter, mosaic artist, street performer and curator. He is co-director of Leeds Sculpture Workshop, a studio group for artists and creatives and regularly curates exhibitions in his own Gallery 16.

Alan is primarily a maker. A maker of paintings, of architectural mosaics, of street theatre and of public art. Working across a variety of media has made his practice sustainable over a number of years and allows space for future progression and development.

Alan regularly exhibits and sells his paintings in the UK and internationally, and he has many works in private collections around the globe. They are an emotional and soulful outlet for ideas about the world based on observation, memories and imagination.

He also collaborates with Cusan Theatre who perform walkabout acts and shows in the UK and internationally. As well as performing for the company, he co-creates costumes and giant puppets alongside artistic director, Tanya Cusan Espinosa. The performance experience has fed back into his paintings, with characters from the street theatre appearing in his canvases.

Another ongoing project of Alan's is carrying out commissions to decorate houses and paved areas with bespoke tile designs and mosaic patterning. This body of work grew out of Alan's formative background creating permanent artworks for the public realm which were developed alongside communities and enhanced public spaces.

Artwork

Mountain Cabin, Oil paint on up-cycled palette, 2025, £180

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Open Cast, Oil paint on board., 2024, £350

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The Balance Stone, Oil paint on canvas, 2024, £390

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Laser, Oil paint on board., 2023, £250

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The Balloon Stone, Oil paint on canvas, 2024, £390

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Big Barn, Oil paint on canvas, 2024, £950

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Run for Your Life, Oil on canvas, 2025, £800

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Firestarters, Oil on canvas, 2025, £800

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Flower Bunker, oil on canvas, 2018, £650

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Look Out, Oil on canvas, 2017

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Projects and exhibitions

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Blue

17/05/2019 — 19/05/2019

An exhibition of Alan's latest paintings in the artist's house and gallery.

Gallery 16, Leeds Details

Oida Interna, (The Internal Ear)

09/01/2018 — 04/02/2018

A group exhibition where invited artists submitted a work that about a musician/ singer/song that had made a big impression on their lives.

La Pedrera Espai Creativo Barni can Sala, Subirats, Barcelona Details

New Light Prize Touring Exhibition

17/11/2017

This is an open submission prize exhibition that selected from artists who lived or had a connection to the North of England. First prize £10,000. Judges: Charming Baker, artist; Thom Hetherington, speaker, consultant and writer on art and culture in the North of England; Reyahn King, York Museum's Trust; Emerson Mayes, artist; Frances...

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Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Huddersfield Art Gallery. Bankside Gallery, London. Tullie House Museu Details

Heads and Sheds

10/11/2017 — 12/11/2017

A solo exhibition of recent paintings held in a pop up gallery in the artist's house.

Gallery 16, Leeds Details

Recent Paintings

01/10/2017 — 31/10/2017

Solo exhibition in a suburban arts centre.

Seven Arts, Leeds Details

Earthlings, Monsters and Sheds

10/03/2017 — 12/03/2017

A group exhibition held at a pop-up gallery in my house. Curated by myself and including paintings by me with Jane Lewis and Kevin Lycett, two painters who are also exploring dramatic figurative themes.

Gallery 16, Leeds Details

Cabin Fever

28/10/2016 — 30/10/2016

A solo exhibition in a pop-up gallery in the artist's house.

Gallery 16, Leeds Details

Re-Emergence

23/01/2016 — 12/03/2016

Solo exhibition of paintings and collages.

Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax Details

Upside Down at the End of the World

13/11/2015 — 27/11/2015

A solo exhibition of recent paintings

Workshop Press Gallery, Leeds Details
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