London Art Award Nomination Eddie Peake: '.. deftly spins a yarn made of different historical strands of camp and homoerotics. The biggest mistake would be to take anything too seriously here, but then it’s as if Peake is toying with the risk of making an authentically inscrutable position out of the slippery surfaces of artifice and masquerade that usually signify sexual identity.'

Art Review: “.. the social experience of pleasure, and its relationship to a mobile and extended sexuality, appears to have been rediscovered by a generation of younger artists through a new hedonism of form and medium. Eddie Peake’s work, for example, lays this on thick: his is a tasty world to inhabit, full of flesh and acid colours and knowing art references... Peake deftly spins a yarn made of different historical strands of camp and homoerotics. The biggest mistake would be to take anything too seriously here, but then it’s as if Peake is toying with the risk of making an authentically inscrutable position out of the slippery surfaces of artifice and masquerade that usually signify sexual identity.”

Eddie was born in London and remains in the city to live and work. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art, recently performed at the Zabludowicz Collection in London, and exhibited in a solo show at Lorcan O’Neill in Rome. Peake is very much an artist of multiple genres, and is fascinated by the discrepancy between types of language when translated into each other, from visual to verbal and vice versa, for example. Eddie is completing a Masters degree at the Royal Academy, but has still found time to exhibit in Los Angeles with solo show Boydem, a series of posters and paintings featuring the same male model in bright and luminous colours. Interested parties in the capital won’t have to wait long to grab a little peak at Peake though; he has another solo project upcoming next month in London at Cell Project Space.