Eddie Peake
Eddie Peake (born 1981) is a British artist. His varied artistic vocabulary encompasses performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. Peake's main focus lies in 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's work is an often-energetic spectacle in which the absurd and the erotic each find a place, and in which the artist plays a central role. Early life. Having  graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2006, he undertook a residency at the British School at Rome from 2008 to 2009, and in 2013 graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London. The son of artist Phyllida Barlow and poet Fabian Peake, he is a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family and grandson of writer Mervyn Peake. Career. Eddie Peake has exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions at White Cube, London (2018); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2015); and Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK (2013). Selected group exhibitions include Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art  Chicago (2017); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2017); Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (2016); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2015); Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2013); and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2012). His performance projects include the Fiorucci Art Trust Volcano Extravaganza, Naples and Stromboli (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014); Performa13, New York (2013); David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2012); The Tanks at Tate Modern, London in conjunction with the Chisenhale Gallery, London (2012); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2012); and Cell Project Space, London (2012). Publications. Eddie Peake designed the cover for A Short  Affair, and a unique artwork inside the book created in response to Will Self’s new short story Civilisation. Exhibitions and collections. Selected solo exhibitions include: Selected group exhibitions include: His performance projects include: