Coagulated Matter 1

Florence Peake (1973 - )

Acrylic paint, oil paint, oil stick, gaffa tape, Golden pumice medium, acrylic pens, Golden clear tar gel medium

2021

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Parliamentary Counsel, 1 Horse Guards Road
    Florence Peake's paintings are often an extension of the body itself; they offer both a manifestation of the external body in motion and of the way personal experience and feeling are recorded within the tissue and bones. Peake is both a performance and visual artist, and her paintings often respond to or are in conversation with the physicality of the body. The Coagulated Matter series of works, created during the pandemic, externalises how grief coagulates within our bodies, in lumps of condensed matter. The media used in the artwork presents a textural surface that through its gestural application resonates with a visceral or felt sense of the body.
  • About the artist
    Florence Peake was born in London. She gained a dance diploma from Lewisham College in 1994 and went on to an MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University (2009). She has since had a number of solo exhibitions and performances in Galleries including at Southwark Park Galleries in partnership with the Towner, Eastbourne and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2023); at Rich Mix in for an event at the Barbican Centre; Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (both 2022); National Gallery, London; British Art Show 9 in Aberdeen, Wolverhampton and Manchester; PM/AM, London; Arsenic and Sudpol Theatres, Switzerland; Z20 Gallery, Rome; Somerset House, London (all 2021) and at the Venice Biennale (2019). Her work has also been performed and exhibited in numerous group exhibitions internationally since 2001.
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    Artist
    Florence Peake (1973 - )
    Title
    Coagulated Matter 1
    Date
    2021
    Medium
    Acrylic paint, oil paint, oil stick, gaffa tape, Golden pumice medium, acrylic pens, Golden clear tar gel medium
    Dimensions
    height: 76cm; width: 76cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Richard Saltoun Gallery, September 2023
    Provenance
    Richard Saltoun Gallery, London UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 4 September 2023
    GAC number
    19198