Somerset House Studios: Florence Peake

Florence's work is concerned with the often hidden production processes of artworks, interacting with, re-imagining and re-framing the procedures, actions and gestures involved in both making a piece of work and packaging it (literally). Performances often incorporate large-scale objects and materials that change and re-form in front of the audience. Site, the placement of performance and relationship to audience, live and recorded text, as well as a well-developed sense of wit and humour, are key to her work. Themes in her work include appropriating popular spiritual practices, capturing the live experience of performing and the memory of a given performance, and re-performing the live works through large scale canvas and fresco works.

Florence's work has been shown nationally and internationally, with presentations including the National Portrait Gallery, BALTIC, Newcastle, Hayward Gallery as part of the Mirrorcity show, David Roberts Art Foundation and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.