'The body is this huge resource of intelligence, trauma and conditioning. It's not neutral.'1– Florence Peake
In honour and in support of Florence Peake's performance at The National Gallery, on 10 December 2021, Richard Saltoun presents Sequel, a temporary exhibition & happening at 41 Dover Street. Opening November 17th, this show presents a series of interrelated works by Peake dating from 2017 to 2020. These dynamic paintings and sculptural reliefs are made using various media–clay, paint, plaster–and exist in direct relation to performances and gestural actions made by the artist. Exhibited in support of Peake's performance at the National Gallery, the works will be made available for sale with all the proceeds going towards the production of the performance.
The exhibition will open 17th November, with an 'in-conversation' at 7pm between the artist and Priyesh Mistry, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Projects at The National Gallery. Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite here.
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 is known for an approach which is at once sensual and witty, expressive and rigorous, political and intimate. 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.
1 Stuck In The Mud, Elephant Magazine, 2020
Press release courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery.
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