Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Exhibition at Hospitalfield
Apr
25
to Oct 4

Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Exhibition at Hospitalfield

Open to view at Hospitalfied, Thursday to Sunday 10am – 4pm, from April 25th – October 4th

Your Meaning Not Your Materiality (YMNYM) is an evolving and multifaceted long-term project that artist and choreographer Peake will be presenting across multiple venues in 2026 and 2027.

At Hospitalfield, YMNYM will open on 25th April and take the form of a series of sculptures installed across the gardens and historic house. On 16th August the sculptures in the garden will become the site for a dance performance; a collaboration between Florence Peake and The Scottish Dance Theatre.

YMNYM examines themes of loss and the human desire to grasp onto the intangible in the face of grief, asking the question what is left when physical material form is removed?

More info - hospitalfield.org.uk/visit/events/exhibition-florence-peake-your-meaning-not-your-materiality/

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Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at theCOLAB Artist's Garden
May
23
to May 15

Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at theCOLAB Artist's Garden

  • theCOLAB Artist's Garden (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Following the live plaster-casting performances on 16th May, the two new outdoor sculptures will be open to the public to view from Mid-May 2026-Mid-May 2027.

Peake’s commission is part of the exhibition Sculpture in Three Acts:  Peake, Linder, Monseignat.  It joins previous commissions at the Artist’s Garden by sculptors Jodie Carey, Candida Powell-Williams, Frances Richardson, Holly Stevenson and Alice Wilson.   

More info - https://www.thecolab.art/florence-peake

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'After Grief' Performance with Yahon Chang at Lafayette Anticipations
Jul
8
7:00 PM19:00

'After Grief' Performance with Yahon Chang at Lafayette Anticipations

Part of Florence’s current project Your Meaning Not Your Materiality, 2025-27.

In a delicate dialogue between painting and movement, the two artists create a four-handed composition in which the body, the material and the line interact. Through this exchange, After Grief explores the many dimensions of grief – personal, collective and global.

The artists move amidst semi-translucent veils of fabric, which serve both as a pictorial surface and a projection screen. Yahon Chang’s sweeping ink gestures meet Florence Peake’s somatic practice, in which the body acts as both a brush and a reservoir of memory. The drapery, resembling silk veils, accumulates traces – imprints, stains, breaths – and composes an image in constant transformation.

The performance is accompanied by a minimalist soundscape by Nicolas Becker, which highlights the silences between the gestures.

FREE event, info and RSVP here - https://www.lafayetteanticipations.com/en/manifestation/after-grief-florence-peake-and-yahon-chang

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Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Performance with Scottish Dance Theatre, at Hospitafield
Aug
16
2:00 PM14:00

Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Performance with Scottish Dance Theatre, at Hospitafield

Part of Florence’s current project, Your Meaning Not Your Materiality, 2025-27.

A free, outdoor performance co-created by Florence Peake and Scottish Dance Theatre interacting with Peake’s new sculptural works for Hospitalfield. A roaming, immersive performance created on site, for a one-off event.

Access - audio description and pre-show access session will be available.

Free ticket, booking essential - https://hospitalfield.org.uk/visit/events/your-meaning-not-your-materiality-live-performance-by-florence-peake-in-collaboration-with-scottish-dance-theatre/

Image taken from YMNYM at Leeds Art Gallery in Nov 2025, with students from Northern School of Contemporary Dance.

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Vitalities Exhibition at HOME, Manchester
Oct
9
to Jan 9

Vitalities Exhibition at HOME, Manchester

Part of Florence’s current project Your Meaning Not Your Materiality, 2025-27.

A significant, solo exhibition of new sculptural and painting works by Florence Peake, made in collaboration with local women and LGBTQIA+ communities in and around Manchester.

Performance interventions across several weekends to be announced.

More info, coming soon.

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Reciprocal Gestures : Movement in Dialogue - Workshop + Performance
Jun
12
to Jun 13

Reciprocal Gestures : Movement in Dialogue - Workshop + Performance

  • chapter arts centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Reciprocal Gestures: movement in dialogue is a two-day programme of expanded dance and movement, gathering artists and communities to explore the sustaining and transformative potential of movement-based practices.

In partnership with Chapter, tactileBOSCH are excited to present a one-off workshop with Florence Peake, a London-based artist working across performance, movement and visual art.

Drawing on her recent work Your Meaning Not Your Materiality, this intensive workshop explores the relationship between bodies and objects through movement, writing and sound. Participants will engage in somatic and touch-based practices, developing shared languages and experimenting with material, presence and absence.

Emerging from the workshop process, a live performance unfolds as a shared, immersive encounter. 

More info and booking - https://www.chapter.org/whats-on/reciprocal-gestures-florence-peake-intensive-workshop

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Practice in Motion 2026
Jun
5
to Jun 6

Practice in Motion 2026

Practice in Motion 2026 is a two-day exhibition and live programme bringing together artists and researchers to explore how artistic practice functions as a form of thinking, knowing and inquiry.

Rather than presenting finished works, this event foregrounds process, experimentation and live encounter. Visitors are invited to move freely between installations, performances, sound works and conversations, experiencing artistic practice as it unfolds. The exhibition acts as a micro-laboratory for artistic research, where making, discussion and reflection happen side by side.

Bringing together artistic and academic approaches, the event explores how they meet, overlap and generate new ways of understanding.

Keynote Artists

  • Florence Peake

  • Eve Stainton

  • Deborah Di Meglio

  • Tara Fatehi

More info and booking - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practice-in-motion-tickets-1988307410990

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Permanence/Impermanence: Collecting & archiving contemporary clay practices
Jun
5
3:30 PM15:30

Permanence/Impermanence: Collecting & archiving contemporary clay practices

The three-day conference addresses how artworks in the ‘expanded field of clay’ can be made accessible to current and future audiences.

These works may be ephemeral, site-specific, participatory, or live, thereby posing significant challenges for museums.

It takes place in the context of important recent work on collecting performance, installation and live art (Tate, 2018-22; Hölling, Feldman & Magnin, 2023-4), and on the politics and practices of museum collecting (Jones, 2021; Krmpotich & Stevenson, 2024) and therefore supports interdisciplinary dialogue extending beyond clay practice.

Conference keynotes include Florence Peake (artist) and Louisa Buck (art critic and author); Alun Graves (Senior Curator, Ceramics and Glass 1900–now, V&A) and Keith Harrison (artist); Daniel F. Herrmann (Ardelan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Projects, National Gallery) and Deborah Smith (curator consultant); Phoebe Cummings (artist); Emily Stone (specialist in public programming) and Alexandra Hodby (Head of Programmes, Yorkshire Sculpture Park); Hanna B. Hölling (Research Professor, Bern Academy of the Arts)and Pip Laurenson (Professor of Conservation, UCL); Clare Twomey (artist) and Martina Margetts (writer and curator).

More info and booking - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/permanenceimpermanence-collecting-archiving-contemporary-clay-practices-tickets-1982785229998

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Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Performances at theCOLAB Artist's Garden
May
16
4:00 PM16:00

Your Meaning Not Your Materiality Performances at theCOLAB Artist's Garden

Part of Florence’s current project, Your Meaning Not Your Materiality (2025-27)

The dates for the performances are 16 May 2026 at 4.15pm and 7.15pm and are free, with all welcome. Please book your free tickets to the performances here. The two outdoor sculptures in plaster remain and will be exhibited from 17 May 2026 to mid-May 2027 on the roof terrace above Temple Tube in London.

This is a unique opportunity to attend a live outdoor sculptural event at The Artist’s Garden, a project realised in close collaboration with Westminster City Council, since 2021.

The two live events give form to the ‘vitalities’, the energies and spaces left when someone dies or something disappears, when absence becomes a starkly strong encounter.

More info - https://www.thecolab.art/florence-peake

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West Dean Course - Reciprocal creative practices: drawing, movement, painting, writing and clay
Feb
26
to Mar 1

West Dean Course - Reciprocal creative practices: drawing, movement, painting, writing and clay

  • West Dean - The Edward James Foundation (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

** Taster workshop - 17th January 2026 **

This workshop will encompass a practical engagement with your tutor's approach to movement/the body in relationship to materials and making of performance work, sculpture and mark-making.

You will explore working between mediums of movement (from a somatic dance approach), writing drawing, painting and clay - how the different encounters feed into each other.

No dance movement experience is needed; no visual arts experience needed either.

https://www.westdean.ac.uk/short-courses/slw38361-reciprocal-creative-practices-drawing-movement-painting-writing-and-clay

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Morning Class at Independent Dance
Nov
24
to Nov 28

Morning Class at Independent Dance

  • Siobhan Davies Studios (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Drawing on somatic dance practices including Skinner Releasing Technique, touch based movement explorations and Florence Peake’s visual art background, these classes will guide participants through perceptions of the body. The classes will encourage working with the imagination as a powerful resource for multiple realties/physicality. These classes incorporate writing, drawing, voice, and movement.

More info and booking - https://independentdance.co.uk/event/morning-class-florence-peake-3/2025-11-24/

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Your Meaning Not Your Materiality - Workshop
Oct
26
11:00 AM11:00

Your Meaning Not Your Materiality - Workshop

Using guided movement explorations, collections of objects, writing and drawing, you will make space for material to be generated from these ideas. Participants will use consensual touch practices, and possibly work with clay in the workshop. Please bring objects that have significance to you to work with during the workshop.

More info and booking - https://independentdance.co.uk/event/your-meaning-not-your-materiality-a-workshop-with-florence-peake/

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Surrender at TRANSFORM25
Oct
22
12:00 PM12:00

Surrender at TRANSFORM25

Expect a day of playful experiment and serious entertainment, with food and conversation.

Line up: Åbäke; Gillian Dyson; Tara Fatehi; Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera; Samir Kennedy and Sean Murray; Samra Mayanja; POPPERFACE; Imogen Reeve; Sonia Sandhu; Nicola Singh; Eve Stainton and Florence Peake.

For more info and booking - https://transformfestival.org/programme/surrender/

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