Eddie Peake

Eddie Peake’s art often takes the form of immersive exhibitions in which an examination of self-identity spirals out into an expansive engagement with desire, shame, the body and the city. The work situates itself inside the fourth wall, the liminal space between different worlds, between the viewer and the viewed, the imagined and the real. From here it explores the implicit drama within personal relationships - whether familial, professional, romantic, sexual or social - and how those relationships are acted upon by cultural constructs such as gender and psychological states such as depression. One particular preoccupation is with masculinity: how it may be stretched, squashed and treated critically – to an extent that may manifest as ostensibly something other than masculinity - while holding on to a love for certain aspects of male physicality and feeling. Another is with the lapses and voids inherent to translation between verbal and nonverbal modes of communication: how to inhabit the discrepancies between words and other language - say images, emotions, bodily movements or sounds.