Florence Peake
Florence Peake is a London-based artist who has been making solo and group performance works intertwined with an extensive visual art practice since 1995. Presenting work internationally and across the UK in galleries, theatres and the public realm, Peake is known for an approach which is at once sensual and witty, expressive and rigorous by encouraging chaotic relationships between the body and material, Peake creates radical and outlandish performances.
Recent project Your Meaning Not Your Materiality at Leeds Art Gallery 2024. Touring Factual Actual Exhibition and Performance from 2022-2024 to National Gallery, SPG, Fruitmarket Edingburgh, Towner Gallery EastBourne. Hayward Gallery's touring British Art Show 9 (2021). Peake's work has been presented at Arsenic theatre and Sudpol theatre in Switzerland (2020), Venice Biennale 2019; CRAC Occitanie, Sete, France (2018), London Contemporary Music Festival, UK (2018), Bosse & Baum, London, UK (2019); De La Warn Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2018); Hayward Gallery, London UK (2018), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (2017). Peake is currently represented by Richard Saltoun Gallery
She/Her
Photo: Eve Stainton and Florence Peake (r) by Saffron Liberty for Elephant magazine
Cardion Nights, 2025
Practice 1. Eve Stainton and Florence Peake abstracted a movement practice from an earlier collaborative work to situate it in Cardion Nights. Through the formal task of interlocking at the crotch, they engaged in ongoing physical connection, disconnection, and re-negotiations to reflect on notions of futility, commitment, continuation, need, love, difference, determination, and strife.
Photo by Christa Holka
