GALLERIA LORCAN O'NEILL ROMA

EDDIE PEAKE

	GALLERY EXHIBITIONS:

People
SEPTEMBER 2018 - JANUARY 2019

Eddie Peake presents ‘People’, his fourth exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome. Bringing together over twenty works in acrylic, oil paint, and spray paint, this exhibition marks a clear departure from the artist’s usual multimedia approach of previous exhibitions, where his works have been displayed in immersive environments featuring sound, performance and video projections.

A Historical Masturbators
JANUARY 2015 - APRIL 2015

Drawing on, among other stimuli, the six-months the artist spent living and working in Rome prior to the show, Eddie Peake’s exhibition ‘A Historical Masturbators’ at the Galleria Lorcan O’Neill is comprised of painting, sculpture, performances and installations to create an immersive environment. Particularly prominent is Peake’s fascination with the contradictions he witnesses in Italy, from politics to sexuality, along with the artist’s propensity to explore the body, sex, and voyeurism.

Call 2 Arms
JULY 2012 - SEPTEMBER 2012

‘Call 2 Arms’ is Eddie Peake’s second exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill. The central feature is a collection of spray paintings of faces rendered in vivid colours, made using the negative space left by plastic bags and scarves, and fluorescently highlighted paintings on steel panels. Referring to the intense emotions of life, the works on display included snippets from text messages, refrains from songs, sport slogans, and other anthems.

EDDIE PEAKE
SEPTEMBER 2010 - SEPTEMBER 2010
Street View Project

As the third part of its series of ‘Street View’ exhibitions, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill unveils Eddie Peake’s ‘History’, which includs works of photography, sculpture and painting. On display is Peake’s ‘History Passes Through Me’, a sculpture made of smooth plaster whose curves and bends evoke the human form in an abstracted, anthropomorphic way. As a collective, the works investigate a fundamental component of Peake’s work, highlighting the complexity of rendering verbal language through nonverbal modes of communication.

	OTHER EXHIBITIONS:

	The Forever Loop OCTOBER 2015 - JANUARY 2016 Barbican London For his new Curve commission, London-based artist Eddie Peake combines live performance with sculpture, video, installation and painting to create an energetic and erotic gallery experience. Sexuality and desire are constant themes in Peake’s live performances that typically foreground the naked body.

Amidst A Sea Of Flailing High Heels And Cooking Utensils, part 2
JULY 2012 - JULY 2012
Chisenhale Gallery, London

A one-night event devised by Eddie Peake. The piece features an original live musical composition and an ensemble of male and female dancers. Eddie Peake's performance is presented in co-operation with Tate Modern and follows the related performance, Amidst A Sea Of Flailing High Heels And Cooking Utensils, part 1 which took place on Saturday 21 July 2012.

Amidst A Sea Of Flailing High Heels and Cooking Utensils, part1
JULY 2012 - JULY 2012
The Tanks, Tate Modern, London

Eddie Peake presents a new performance made especially for the Tanks. He works with bodies, movement and music, playfully exploring physical form in all its manifestations. The event coincides with the opening of the 'Tanks', the new space at the Tate Modern. The performance is presented in co-operation with the Chisenhale Gallery, London.

	Touch MARCH 2012 - MARCH 2012 Royal Academy of Arts, London A performance at the Royal Academy of Arts where Eddie Peake is completing his Master's Degree. The performance, called Touch is a 30-minute game of naked five-a-side football.

Cell Projects, London Dem 2012
MARCH 2012 - MARCH 2012

A solo project by Eddie Peake: it is a rolling performance playing with the typical conventions and format of a solo show in a gallery. Eddie Peake has used edited VHS footage from his own family archive as a central point of departure, but where one might ordinarily expect to find video played on a loop in a gallery, invites the audience to request it to be played from the beginning, or not.