Eddie Peake is a British artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans performance, video, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Renowned for creating immersive environments that blur the boundaries between physical and psychological space, his work explores desire, intimacy, power and the complexities of human relationships. Through a distinctive visual language that combines theatricality, humour and emotional intensity, Peake investigates the ways people communicate, connect and misunderstand one another.

Working across multiple mediums simultaneously, Peake often constructs exhibitions as interconnected networks of images, objects, sounds and performances. His practice is characterised by an interest in repetition, non-verbal communication and the limitations of language, examining how emotions, desires and psychological states frequently resist straightforward representation. Whether through choreography, moving image or sculptural intervention, his works reveal the often-unspoken tensions that shape social, romantic and personal encounters.

In 2020, Peake collaborated with CIRCA on A Dream Of A Real Memory, one of the platform’s earliest commissions following its launch in Piccadilly Circus. Presented nightly throughout December on London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights, the work transformed the vast advertising screen into an immersive green void occupied by three performers navigating a shifting landscape of attraction, conflict and self-discovery. Screened in reverse over thirty-one consecutive days, the sixty-two-minute work unfolded backwards from exhaustion to anticipation, mirroring the unstable logic of dreams and memories where chronology dissolves and reality becomes uncertain. By exposing the mechanics of image-making through the visible presence of a green screen, Peake challenged the conventions of cinema, advertising and public spectacle while transforming Piccadilly Circus into a site for collective reflection at the close of a year defined by uncertainty and isolation.

Presented during London’s emergence from lockdown, A Dream Of A Real Memory exemplified CIRCA’s founding ambition to reclaim public screens as spaces for artistic experimentation and shared experience. Accompanied by a fundraising campaign supporting refugees through Choose Love, the project connected artistic imagination with wider questions of care, solidarity and human connection during a moment of profound social change.

Peake’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, Barbican Centre, ICA London, Palais de Tokyo and Kunsthalle Zürich. Through a practice that consistently pushes the boundaries of performance and visual art, he has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation, creating works that reveal the fragile, absurd and deeply human dynamics that underpin contemporary life.