Florence Peake

This is the first publication dedicated to British visual artist and choreographer,  Florence Peake (b. 1973), spanning select works and performances by between 2016 - 2023, with a focus on two parallel solo exhibitions at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London and Southwark Park Galleries, London in 2023. The publication includes two essay contributions by art historian, Pauline de Souza, and writer Juliet Jacques, as well as a poem written by the artist. 

Florence Peake's work explores notions of materiality and physicality: the body as site and vehicle of protest; the erotic and sensual as tools for queering materiality; the subjective and imagined body as a force equal to those that move in our objective flesh-bound world. By encouraging chaotic relationships between the body and material, Peake creates radical and outlandish performances, which in turn generate temporary alliances and micro-communities within the audience. Her painting practice comes together with sculpture and performance in a reciprocal nature: engaging in a shared dialogue and creating multiple modes of processing performance, and the interrelations between dancers, audiences and sites.

This publication was designed by A Practice for Everyday Life. 

Printed in an edition of 500 copies.