Pete Allen at Mas Fusion

Pete trained as a coach builder and works as a self-employed carpenter. Following his move to the Isle of Wight in 1999, widower Pete took part in carnival workshops at his daughter's primary school in 2002.

He has gained costume making, production and other skills which he now shares through school workshops and as one of the team who staff the Isle of Wight Council Arts Unit Carnival Learning Centre's Carnival Truck, taking carnival skills and information about training opportunities and workshops out to mass audiences at events and festivals.

He has taken part in the Isle of Wight Mas-Sive Carnival Gala on two occasions and has performed with other carnival artists at Luton, Newham, Brighton and Viareggio carnival celebrations.

Pete has been a member of the Mas Fusion design team since 2006, when he worked with both Sharon and Jill on their commissioned arts unit King and Queens costumes for the Ryde Arts Festival Parade. Pete specialise's in the design of large structural frame works for king and queen carnival costumes costumes. Since Pete started working in carnival arts he has become the Isle of Wight's best large costume structural designers and regularly tutors on courses run by Fusion. Pete is enhanced CRB checked.