SweetThings is the curatorial and collaborative practice of artists James Fowler and Pearl Van Geest, founded in 2013. Together they create exhibitions, residencies, and art experiences that connect queer ecology, identity, and place. Their projects often blur the lines between curation and creation, bringing together artists, communities, and ideas in environments where art feels alive, growing, entangling, and transforming.

Working as both artists and curators, Fowler and Van Geest share an interest in how queerness reshapes our relationship with the natural world. Their practices intersect through an exploration of materiality, tenderness, and transformation—Fowler’s work rooted in textile, cartography, and social practice, and Van Geest’s in painting, installation, and text-based inquiry. Together, they build spaces that reflect connection, adaptation, and collective imagination.

As SweetThings, they have co-curated and produced projects such as Wild Waysides: Queer Ecology and the New Natural (White Water Gallery, Red Head Gallery, and Living Temagami, 2025), SYZYGY: 2SLGBTQI+ Rights (Museo de Arte de Mazatlán, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bucaramanga, 2026), Queer Up North Artist Residency (Paradise Lodge, Temagami, 2024–2025), and Bridging Borders / Pontifex, an exchange between Red Head Gallery (Toronto) and Coordenadas Residencia (Buenos Aires, 2025).

Their collaborative curatorial work follows a shared belief that art can reimagine how we live with each other and the earth, centering queerness as both a mode of inquiry and a form of belonging. For more information, follow SweetThings on Instagram.

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Full CV’s available below
James Fowler CV
Pearl Van Geest CV