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 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. Peake’s work explores notions of materiality and physicality: the body as site and vehicle of protest; the erotic and sensual as tools for queering materiality.

By encouraging chaotic relationships between the body and material, Peake creates radical and outlandish performances, which in turn generate temporary alliances and micro-communities within the audience. Peake’s painting is as an extension of the body itself: it is produced gesturally and performatively, and is both a manifestation of the external body in motion and the way personal experience and feeling is recorded within the tissue and bones. Their painting practice comes together with sculpture and performance in a reciprocal nature: engaging in a shared dialogue and creating multiple modes of processing performance, and the interrelations between dancers, audiences and sites.

Peake has worked with filmmakers, artists and choreographers including Joe Moran, Gaby Agis, Tai Shani, Jonathan Baldock, Serena Korda, Nicola Conibere, Gary Stevens, Catherine Hoffmann, Eve Stainton, Station House Opera and Theatre of Mistakes.

Peake is represented by Richard Saltoun Gallery and will be presenting ceramic works for Frieze 2025. 

Peake has been commissioned to make a large floor painting by Jupiter Art Land for their new wedding venue opening October 2025. 

Touring Exhibition Factual Actual was presented at National Gallery (2021), Southwark park Galleries, Fruitmarket Edinburgh (2023), Towner Gallery Eastbourne and Liste Art Basel (2024). Hayward Gallery’s touring British Art Show 9 (2021- 2022). Peake’s work has been presented at Victoria Miro Gallery (2025), E-werk Luckenwald (2024), Gropius Bae (2022), Arsenic theatre and Sudpol theatre in Switzerland (2020),Venice Biennale 2019; CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France (2018), London Contemporary Music Festival, UK (2018), De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2018); Hayward Gallery, London UK (2018), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (2017), Studio Leigh, London UK (2017); Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy (2017); Serpentine, London UK (2016); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016); ICA, London (2016); Modern Art Oxford (2016); BALTIC, Newcastle UK (2013), Frieze, London UK (2013), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2012).

Image by Vicky Polakovich