Edward Caspar Erasmus Peake (born 1981) is a British artist. His work includes performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. His art focuses on "implicit drama within relationships between people", and "how things like desire, sexuality and depression impact on them".
Biography Peake was born in 1981 at London to artist Phyllida Barlow and poet Fabian Benedict Peake. His grandparents are writer Mervyn Peake and artist Maeve Gilmore. He has four siblings, including artist Florence Peake. He is a member of the prominent Darwin–Wedgwood family.
Peake took residency at the British School at Rome from 2008 to 2009, and graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2013.White Cube. "Eddie Peake",Royal Academy 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019
Publications 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.Books, Google. "Eddie Peake responds to Will Self and points to a new direction",The Art Newspaper, 30 November 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019
Exhibitions and collections Selected solo exhibitions include:White Cube. "Eddie Peake",White Cube 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019
2018 – White Cube, London 2015 – Barbican Art Gallery, London 2013 – Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK
Selected group exhibitions include:
2018 – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2017 – Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2017 – Zabludowicz Collection, London 2016 – Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK 2015 – Fondazione Memmo, Rome 2013 – Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 2012 – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Performance projects include:
2017 – Fiorucci Art Trust Volcano Extravaganza, Naples and Stromboli 2015 – Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2014 – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2013 – Performa13, New York 2012 – 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 – Cell Project Space, London
References
External links
White Cube Gallery