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{{Short description|British artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox artist
|image       = Eddie Peake.jpg
|caption     = Peake in 2017
|name        = Eddie Peake
|birth_name  =
|birth_date  = {{birth year and age|1981}}
|birth_place = London, UK
|education   = Slade, UCL, London, 2001-2006. Bezalel, Jerusalem, (Exchange programme) 2004. Yale, Norfolk, USA, (Exchange programme) 2005.
Royal Academy Schools, London, 2010-2013.
|awards      =
|website     = {{url|eddiepeake.com}}
}}
'''Eddie Peake''' (born 1981) is a British artist. His work includes [[Performance art|performance]], [[Video art|video]], [[photography]], [[painting]], [[sculpture]] and [[Installation art|installation]]. His art focuses on "implicit drama within relationships between people", and "how things like [[desire]], [[Human sexuality|sexuality]] and [[Depression (mood)|depression]] impact on them".<ref name="RoyalAcademy2019"/>
==Biography==
Eddie Peake was born in 1981 at [[London]] to artist [[Phyllida Barlow]] and poet Fabian Peake. His grandparents are writer [[Mervyn Peake]] and artist [[Maeve Gilmore]]. He has four siblings, including artist Florence Peake. He is a member of the prominent [[Darwin–Wedgwood family]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/eddie-peake-takes-centre-stage-for-new-show-at-london-s-white-cube | title=Eddie Peake takes centre stage for new performance show at London’s White Cube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/curious-love-letter-finsbury-park-eddie-peake-concrete-pitch | title=A curious love letter to Finsbury Park}}</ref>
Peake took residency at the [[British School at Rome]] from 2008 to 2009, and graduated from the [[Royal Academy Schools]] in 2013.<ref name="RoyalAcademy2019">White Cube. [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/eddie-peake "Eddie Peake"],''Royal Academy'' 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019</ref>
==Publications==
Peake designed the cover for A Short Affair, and a unique artwork inside the book created in response to [[Will Self]]’s new short story Civilisation.<ref name="GoogleBooks2019">Books, Google. [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/eddie-peake-responds-to-will-self-and-points-to-a-new-direction "Eddie Peake responds to Will Self and points to a new direction"],''The Art Newspaper'', 30 November 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019</ref>
==Exhibitions and collections==
Selected solo exhibitions include:<ref name="WhiteCube2019">White Cube. [http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/eddie_peake_bermondsey_2018/  "Eddie Peake"],''White Cube'' 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019</ref>
*''2018'' &ndash; [[White Cube]], London
*''2015'' &ndash; [[Barbican Art Gallery]], London
*''2013'' &ndash; Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK
Selected group exhibitions include:
*''2018'' &ndash; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
*''2017'' &ndash; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
*''2017'' &ndash; Zabludowicz Collection, London
*''2016'' &ndash; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
*''2015'' &ndash; Fondazione Memmo, Rome
*''2013'' &ndash; Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
*''2012'' &ndash; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Performance projects include:
*''2017'' &ndash; Fiorucci Art Trust Volcano Extravaganza, Naples and Stromboli
*''2015'' &ndash; Palais de Tokyo, Paris
*''2014'' &ndash; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
*''2013'' &ndash; Performa13, New York
*''2012'' &ndash; David Roberts Art Foundation, London
*''2012'' &ndash; The Tanks at Tate Modern, London in conjunction with the Chisenhale Gallery, London
*''2012'' &ndash; Royal Academy of Arts, London
*''2012'' &ndash; Cell Project Space, London
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://eddiepeake.com/}}
* [http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/eddie_peake_bermondsey_2018/ White Cube Gallery]
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