ABOUT.
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Clover Peake is a visual artist, designer and writer.
Born in London in 1975, where Clover continues to live and work. Her multidisciplinary practice includes embroidery, tapestries, film, poetry, drawing, scriptwriting, short stories and fashion design.
Themes of place and space are referenced within all her practices. Her observations focus on the conflicting juxtapositions of contemporary city life - its frenetic pace with the demands of motherhood, its seedy underbelly with its grand historical narratives, or the enhanced technological connection with its resulting alienation.
These themes are underpinned by Peake’s reflections on her own life. She fearlessly questions the mental and physical consequences of her lived experience with which to explore the universal subjects of love, despair, separation, loneliness, birth, rejection and hope. Informing these concerns are her long-standing interest in and knowledge of classical literature and languages. In particular, the classical portrayal of the roles of motherhood, childhood and familial life are powerful influences. Peake combines imagery with symbolism, enhanced by her interest in mythology, linguistics, archetypes and philology, to bring together the private, intimate and personal aspects of her life, the predicaments of the current world, and dreamscapes.
Peake studied Greek and Latin at University College London (UCL) specialising in ancient poetry and translation. Peake’s creative background has also been influential in introducing her early on to poetic form and structure through her father, poet and artist, Fabian Peake and the influence of colour, textiles and drawing from her mother and artist Phyllida Barlow.
Exhibitions, projects and collaborations include: Cell Project Space, London (2012); Southard Reid, London (2012); White Cube, London (2013); 43 Inverness Street, London (2014); Norton, Miami (2014); 5 Years Gallery, London (2016); Bosse and Baum, London, (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Akerman Daly, 2020.
Publications include: Son, 43 Inverness Street, London (2014); Archetype, Spuyten Duyvil, New York, USA (2018); Beasts and Volcanoes, Knives Forks and Spoons, Merseyside/London (2019); Tea Party????, Zeno Press, London.
