Biography

Amélie Peace is a french-born queer artist currently working in London. She finished her Bachelor’s at City and Guilds of London Arts School in 2020 and since then has taken part in many groups shows including some with Arusha Gallery, The Columbia and Prior Space X Phillips.

Her practice delves into the experience of touch and the human need for physical connection. The psychophysical dialogues that she curates in her paintings discuss the emotional, sexual and gendered experiences. She explores what it means to have a body, to share that body, and how each exchange with another person alters one’s sense of their own physical self.

She captures moments that stand on the line between softness and cruelty. The cruelty might be subtle at times but one can look to the clues Peace has left behind for us to decipher. Hands are an obvious fascination for her as they are forms that are always highlighted in the work. They act as stepping stones guiding the viewer through the many storylines in the paintings.

The intensity of colour in the work is used as a megaphone to portray the themes she explores in her practice. What it means to speak without words, the power that can be found in the unspoken language of gestures. In each painting, the fourth wall is broken, which entices the viewer to become part of the theatrical puzzles Peace puts together in her pursuit to depict human emotion.

 

Exhibitions

2022    JD Malat Gallery X WAAW

2022    That Wilderness Within, Prior Space

2022    Hiraeth with Phillips X Prior Space

2022    Paper works with Later Editions

2022    Pathways on Paper, with South Parade

2021    Saturnalia with Purslane X Art City Works

2021    On Reflection, curated by Tess Tomassini at The Crypt Gallery

2021    Print Fair with The Tub Hackney

2021    A Chorus of Bodies with Liliya Art Gallery

2021    Private at The Columbia

2021    Safe as Milk with Arusha Gallery

2021    Artist Contemporary online Atelier

2020    Life of Venus with The Tub, Hackney

2020    Curated for Christmas with Allmouth Gallery

2020    AfterHours show with Bowes Parris Gallery

2020    Final, not Over with Unit 1 Gallery Workshop

2020    Included in Artmazemag Spring Edition 18

2020    Curated for Covid online exhibition

2020    Showing with All Mouth Gallery

2019    Interim Show at ArtHill Gallery

2019    Curated and exhibited in RAW exhibition

2018    Interim Show at Downstairs in Mother

 

Collections

Robert Yentob

Jane Hayes Greenwood

Michael Preuss

Studio Berkhiem

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‘Woman, Empowered’ Exhibition Catalogue

‘Woman, Empowered’ Exhibition Catalogue