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Pierce Starre

Liverpool
Pierce Starre is a multidisciplinary artist questioning the narratives that shape how bodies and lives are valued. Through performance, objects and images, their practice challenges convention, sparks dialogue and imagines alternative ways of being.
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Pierce Starre's practice examines the heteronormative, neuronormative, ableist and capitalist narratives that shape how lives are understood and valued. Drawing from lived experience alongside a critical engagement with cultural, historical and contemporary discourses, their work spans live performance, sculpture, textiles, objects, text, and still and moving images to create immersive experiences that foster connection, reflection, discussion and transformative possibilities.

Lived Experience

Pierce Starre is an artist based in Liverpool whose multidisciplinary practice emerges from the complex and shifting intersections of their lived experience as a non binary, queer, working-class, neurodivergent individual raised by Deaf parents who communicate using British Sign Language. 

 

EDUCATION

  • Master of Arts, Contemporary Performance (Distinction) Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom 2025
  • Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art (First Class Honours) University of Derby, United Kingdom 2018
  • Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE) Acting Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, United Kingdom 2003
  • BTEC National Diploma, Performing Arts (Distinction) City of Wolverhampton College, United Kingdom 2001

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

  • Signature Level 6 NVQ Certificate in British Sign Language Studies BSL Ladder, United Kingdom 2021
  • IBSL Level 6 Certificate in British Sign Language Interpreting Deaf & Sensory Network, United Kingdom 2023

AWARDS AND FUNDING

TALKS AND PANELS

LIVE PERFORMANCE

LIVESTREAM PERFORMANCE

VIDEO PERFORMANCE

  • Scrutiny - El Festival Internacional de Performance Acciones al Margen Bucaramanga, Columbia 2023
  • Dress - ECC Performance Art & OTHER Collective Wakefield, United Kingdom; Liverpool, United Kingdom; Athens, Greece 2023
  • Heirophant - Ron Athey - Communitism Athens, Greece 2023
  • Scrutiny - SPILL YER TEA Online 2021
  • Scrutiny - Independents Biennial & Metal Culture Online 2021

EXHIBITIONS

FILM FESTIVALS

  • Scrutiny - Lift-Off Global Network Festival - Pinewood Studios, London, United Kingdom 2021

RESIDENCIES

  • OTHER Collective - Artists Studio Company (ASC) London, United Kingdom 2025
  • Low Steaks Residency - FACT Liverpool, United Kingdom 2025
  • On Practice with Marilyn Arsem - Future Ritual - VSSL & Stanley Arts London, United Kingdom 2025
  • Constructing Phenomena: Artist Lab with Ron Athey & Michele Occelli - Future Ritual - Battersea Arts Centre London, United Kingdom 2025
  • HOME - Intensive Co-Creation - VestAndPage - Mazovian Museum, Płock, Poland 2023
  • OTHER Collective - Centre Live Art Yorkshire (CLAY) Leeds, United Kingdom 2023
  • OTHER Collective - The Art House Wakefield, United Kingdom 2023
  • Darkness Visible - Ron Athey, Federica Dauri, Michele Occelli, Diana J. Torres & Hermes Pittakos - Communitism Athens, Greece 2023
  • Residential Workshop with Rubiane Maia — ]Performance Space[ Folkestone, United Kingdom 2021
  • Co-Creation Live Factory - La Pocha Nosta, VestAndPage, Andrigo & Aliprandi - Palazzo Mora Venice, Italy 2020
  • Remote Residencies - Metal Culture Liverpool, United Kingdom 2020
  • Artists in Residence - Metal + Independents Biennial Liverpool, United Kingdom 2020
  • MAP Artist in Residence - Liverpool Hope University Liverpool, United Kingdom 2019
  • 12 Hour Residencies - The Gathering - ROAR Rotherham, United Kingdom 2017
  • Amnesia with Manuel Vason - Tempting Failure London, United Kingdom 2016

ACQUISITIONS

TEACHING AND FACILITATION

  • More Than Lip Service (Working with BSL Interpreters in Theatre & Performance) Unity Theatre 2026
  • Bedrock - Creative BSL Tour with Lisa Birtles - Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, United Kingdom 2025
  • Sounds Like Her - Creative BSL Tour - New Art Exchange & Nottinghamshire Deaf Society Nottingham, United Kingdom 2017
  • Collabor8 - Lead Artist - Nottingham Contemporary Nottingham, United Kingdom 2017

CONSULTANCY

  • Accessibility Consultancy - Curtains Curtains Curtains - Frightwig Liverpool, United Kingdom 2023
  • Accessibility Consultancy - Jerwood Arts Online 2019

COLLABORATIONS

BOARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Board Trustee - Broken Grey Wires Liverpool, United Kingdom 2025 - Present

MENTORSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS

  • Mentorship - Amanda Coogan - Performance Artist Belfast, Northern Ireland 2020
  • Mentorship - Peter Bonnell - Executive Director - DASH Derby, United Kingdom 2020
  • Internship - Brian Griffin - Photographer Deauville, France 2016
  • Mentorship John Blakemore - Photographer Derby, United Kingdom 2014
  • Internship - FORMAT International Photography Festival Derby, United Kingdom 2014

WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES

DISABILITY SPECIFIC TRAINING

  • Access the Night - Disability Awareness Training - Quiplash + Raze Collective - Hackney Showroom London, United Kingdom 2025

CURATORIAL AND PROGRAMMING

  • REET GOOD #1 - QUAD Derby, United Kingdom 2022
  • GAB #1: Amanda Coogan Online 2021
  • SPILL YER TEA #5 Online 2021
  • SPILL YER TEA #4 Online 2020
  • SPILL YER TEA #2 - Constellations Liverpool, United Kingdom 2019
  • SPILL YER TEA #1 - Constellations Liverpool, United Kingdom 2019

PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA

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