Free exhibition tour
Join us at HOME for an exclusive tour of Florence Peake: Vitalities with Clarissa Corfe, HOME’s Creative Producer for Visual Art. The tour will give you a deeper understanding of the brand new exhibition by Florence Peake which explores loss, grief, absence and what is left behind when a physical and material form has dissolved, been removed or died.
About the Exhibition:
Vitalities is HOME’s Main Gallery exhibition of new work by internationally acclaimed artist Florence Peake. Her practice explores the choreographic potential between movement and production of traditional art materials, often using the body as an instrument or site of protest. Titled Vitalities, this exhibition has been produced collaboratively with studio assistants, professional dancers and queer identifying individuals in Manchester, the exhibition is materialised through works on paper, moulded and poured gypsum plaster, cast concrete, pewter and activations performed throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Eight large luminescent sculptures made from plaster form key tenets throughout the exhibition. Through a process of reflection and catharsis the sculptures were created in carefully devised, movement informed workshops with individuals who have experience of grief. Made using traditional methods of casting in plaster, Peake poured plaster between participants, making solid the space between them. Upon drying, these porous, totemic works reveal densely textured surfaces, skin imprints/folds and fragments of clothing; the human trace visible, yet their presence absent. The work considers the stark encounter of that absence, the body/objects, their ghosts and invisible doubles.
Florence Peak Biography
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. Peake’s work has been shown internationally and across the UK in galleries, theatres and the public realm. The solo Touring Exhibition Factual Actual was presented at National Gallery (2021), Southwark Park Galleries (2022), Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2023), Towner Gallery, Eastbourne and Liste Art Basel (2024).
Selected group shows and performances include Victoria Miro Gallery (2025), E-werk Luckenwald (2024), Gropius Bau (2022), British Art Show 9 (2021- 2022). Arsenic theatre and Sudpol Theatre, 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); Harris Museum and Art Gallery (2015), BALTIC, Newcastle UK (2013), Frieze, London UK (2013), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2012).
Peake is represented by Richard Saltoun Gallery.
