Eddie Peake

Eddie Peake works with performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation.  His art often takes the form of immersive exhibitions that connect diverse and incongruous objects, weaving autobiographical elements and an examination of self-identity with more general themes of desire, the body and the urban landscape. His work tends to involve an integral emphasis on the relationship between the audience and the artwork, the viewer and the viewed, and an exploration of the implicit drama within relationships, whether familial, professional, romantic, sexual or social, and how desire, sexuality, socio-political and cultural constructs, as well as psychological states such as depression impact on them. One particular preoccupation is with the lapses and voids inherent in the process of translating between verbal language and nonverbal modes of communication. It is in the discrepancy between words and any other language, say, images, emotions, bodily movements or sounds, that his art is located. Peake also DJs under a pseudonym and runs a record label called Hymn.

Eddie Peake was born in London in 1981 where he continues to live and work. His exhibitions and performances have been staged internationally. Solo shows and performances include: TICK TACK, Antwerp (2025); Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2025); Horst Festival, Vilvoorde (2025); FuturShock, London (2025); Galeria Municipal do Porto (2025); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2024); Circa, London (2020); Arsenic, Lausanne (2019); White Cube, London (2018); Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (2018); White Cube, London (2017); Volcano Extravaganza, Naples-Vulcano Solfatara-Stromboli (2017); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2017); White Cube, Hong Kong (2016); Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2016); Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, Vorno (2016); Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Barbican, London (2015); Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (2015); Lismore Castle, Cork (2015); Peres Projects, Berlin (2014); White Cube, São Paulo (2013); Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2013); Performa 13, New York (2013); White Cube, London (2013); Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (2012); Cell Project Space, London (2012); Southard Reid, London (2012); The Royal Academy Schools, London (2012); David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2012); Chisenhale Art Gallery, London (2012); Tate Modern, London (2012) and Auto Italia South East, London (2011 & 2010). Peake also DJs under a pseudonym and runs a record label imprint called Hymn.

© Eddie Peake. Photo: Soliloquy (Images Doc).