HOGCHESTER ARTS

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 produces movement, interactive sculpture, paintings that use the whole body's physicality, text, film and drawings which respond and intercept each other to articulate, extend and push ideas.

 

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.
 

 

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions​​

Peake performance Your Meaning Not Your Materiality was recently presented at Leeds Art Gallery (2024) and will tour to additional UK venues in 2025/26.

Her touring institutional solo exhibition Factual Actual: Ensemble was presented at Southwark Park Galleries, London; Towner Eastbourne and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
(2023/2024).

Her work was part of the group exhibitions Motion in Stillness: Dance and the Human Body in Movement at Victoria Miro, London (2024/25), and Hayward Gallery's touring British Art Show 9 (2021).

 

Other exhibitions and performances include at Arsenic theatre and Sudpol theatre in Switzerland (2020),

Venice Biennale (2019) 

CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France (2018)

LondonContemporary Music Festival, UK (2018)

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018)

Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2018)

Hayward Gallery, London UK (2018)

Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (2017)

Studio Leigh, London UK (2017)

Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy (2017)

Serpentine, London UK (2016)

Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016)

ICA, London (2016)

Modern Art Oxford (2016)

BALTIC, Newcastle UK (2013)

Frieze, London UK (2013)

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2012)

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