Peter Mears (b. 1988, UK) is a process-driven artist living and working between London and Hampshire. Drawing on a background in architecture, spatial design, and fine art, his practice explores the relationship between internal experience and external form—between intention and interpretation, control and improvisation.

Rather than focusing on the finished object, Peter is drawn to the indirect—the hidden structures, repeated gestures, and evolving patterns that shape material, movement, and meaning. His work translates systems of rhythm and sequence into sculpture, treating porcelain as both a recorder and a performer of action. He sees clay as a script for behaviour—a responsive medium where tension and compression, fragility and resilience, mirror the human condition.

Working in series, Mears develops adaptable tools and modular “scores” that invite variation. Like a composer, he sets the framework, then responds with the output over the course of a period of making. Drawing, building, stacking, and casting become forms of notation, echoing across disciplines—from choreography and music to coding, architecture, and language. The composition unfolds over time through an iterative approach—beginning with defined parameters for generating and manipulating form. It reflects the dynamic between command and intention, where incremental actions accumulate or are superseded, allowing interpretation to evolve.

At the heart of his work is an ongoing exploration of balance: between structure and freedom, permanence and change, individual voice and collective rhythm.

Recent exhibitions include Improv, Hampshire (2025); Façade, Hampshire (2024); and Hands, 8 Holland Street, London (2024).

Peter studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte), spatial design at the University of Brighton, and art and design at Falmouth.