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| Eddie Peake’s new show calls time on his naked ambition | Eddie Peake’s new show calls time on his naked ambition |
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| Artist whose work has included a nude football match will put himself on display – fully clothed | Artist whose work has included a nude football match will put himself on display – fully clothed |
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| His work has included a naked five-a-side match at the Royal Academy of Arts, naked dancers and roller-skaters in sheer onesies at the Barbican and painted models dressed only in Reeboks in New York, but this week the artist Eddie Peake, who is also often naked, might surprise his many admirers – with clothes. | His work has included a naked five-a-side match at the Royal Academy of Arts, naked dancers and roller-skaters in sheer onesies at the Barbican and painted models dressed only in Reeboks in New York, but this week the artist Eddie Peake, who is also often naked, might surprise his many admirers – with clothes. |
| Peake will open a show in London that will feature him working and performing in the gallery for two months. | Peake will open a show in London that will feature him working and performing in the gallery for two months. |
| While not exactly calling time on the naked body, he said he had decided “to not feature nudity so emphatically in the work any more”. | While not exactly calling time on the naked body, he said he had decided “to not feature nudity so emphatically in the work any more”. |
| Peake has always been slightly baffled at society’s relationship to the naked body, thinking it completely unremarkable and not shocking. | Peake has always been slightly baffled at society’s relationship to the naked body, thinking it completely unremarkable and not shocking. |
| But it always gets mentioned. “My intentions with nudity I think are serious and inquisitive and are a kind of interrogation,” he said. “It is virtually impossible to present work which features nudity without the audience assuming it’s there lightly or flippantly or frivolously or as something that is meant to be titillating or pornographic. | But it always gets mentioned. “My intentions with nudity I think are serious and inquisitive and are a kind of interrogation,” he said. “It is virtually impossible to present work which features nudity without the audience assuming it’s there lightly or flippantly or frivolously or as something that is meant to be titillating or pornographic. |
| “Part of the reason I have worked with nudity so much is less that I wanted to work with nudity and more that I didn’t want to work with costumes.” | “Part of the reason I have worked with nudity so much is less that I wanted to work with nudity and more that I didn’t want to work with costumes.” |
| The new show, opening to the public on Wednesday, is inspired by the concrete recreation ground in Finsbury Park, north London, where he spent a lot of his youth hanging out, playing football and smoking weed. | The new show, opening to the public on Wednesday, is inspired by the concrete recreation ground in Finsbury Park, north London, where he spent a lot of his youth hanging out, playing football and smoking weed. |
| “It is like the lowest-budget recreation ground you could possibly provide for the community … but I loved it and I still love it.” | “It is like the lowest-budget recreation ground you could possibly provide for the community … but I loved it and I still love it.” |
| Peake and his friends were also devoted listeners to the pirate radio show Kool FM, which began broadcasting from east London tower blocks in 1991, and DJs from the current incarnation, Koollondon.com, will broadcast an online radio show from the gallery for the duration of the show. | Peake and his friends were also devoted listeners to the pirate radio show Kool FM, which began broadcasting from east London tower blocks in 1991, and DJs from the current incarnation, Koollondon.com, will broadcast an online radio show from the gallery for the duration of the show. |
| The Kool DJs were heroes, he said. “They have had a massive impact on me and my my work and my life and I think culture more broadly speaking. | The Kool DJs were heroes, he said. “They have had a massive impact on me and my my work and my life and I think culture more broadly speaking. |
| “I’ve known the names of Eastman and Suzie G for 20 years and now I know them personally, but the first time I met them I was: ‘You’re Eastman and Suzie G!’” | “I’ve known the names of Eastman and Suzie G for 20 years and now I know them personally, but the first time I met them I was: ‘You’re Eastman and Suzie G!’” |
| The exhibition will feature new paintings, sculpture, installation and performance and Peake himself. The artist will be in the gallery, a vast space at White Cube in Bermondsey, south London, every day it is open and visitors might see him doing ordinary activities such as reading a book, drinking coffee, writing emails, exercising or having a sit down. Or he might be doing something more obviously a performance. | The exhibition will feature new paintings, sculpture, installation and performance and Peake himself. The artist will be in the gallery, a vast space at White Cube in Bermondsey, south London, every day it is open and visitors might see him doing ordinary activities such as reading a book, drinking coffee, writing emails, exercising or having a sit down. Or he might be doing something more obviously a performance. |
| For some of the time he will be in a room where visitors will see him through two-way glass, but he will not see them. “Much of my work relates to that idea of looking, implicating the viewer as a form of voyeur, and I will play games with that.” | For some of the time he will be in a room where visitors will see him through two-way glass, but he will not see them. “Much of my work relates to that idea of looking, implicating the viewer as a form of voyeur, and I will play games with that.” |
| Peake, the son of the artists Phyllida Barlow and Fabian Peake and grandson of the Gormenghast writer Mervyn Peake, is in many eyes one of the UK’s most exciting artists. Now in his late 30s, he started fairly late but has risen quickly in the art world since completing his master’s degree at the Royal Academy five years ago. | Peake, the son of the artists Phyllida Barlow and Fabian Peake and grandson of the Gormenghast writer Mervyn Peake, is in many eyes one of the UK’s most exciting artists. Now in his late 30s, he started fairly late but has risen quickly in the art world since completing his master’s degree at the Royal Academy five years ago. |
| Peake said the new show would be more overtly political than anything he had done before. | Peake said the new show would be more overtly political than anything he had done before. |
| It has to be because of who he is, he said. “I feel if you are a white middle-class man who, in effect, is the embodiment of white male privilege and oppression, whether you want to be that or not, whether you see yourself as that or not, you have a responsibility to think about what your role is.” | It has to be because of who he is, he said. “I feel if you are a white middle-class man who, in effect, is the embodiment of white male privilege and oppression, whether you want to be that or not, whether you see yourself as that or not, you have a responsibility to think about what your role is.” |
| Peake says he feels uncomfortable being a white middle-class man: “How on earth could you not be?” | Peake says he feels uncomfortable being a white middle-class man: “How on earth could you not be?” |
| He says he may not have the answers but wants at least to ask questions. “I think Donald Trump is an odious man who I absolutely despise, but at base level there isn’t that much separating us, by virtue of the privileges and powers we enjoy from birth as white men. That’s terrifying and makes it really urgent to speak about it.” | He says he may not have the answers but wants at least to ask questions. “I think Donald Trump is an odious man who I absolutely despise, but at base level there isn’t that much separating us, by virtue of the privileges and powers we enjoy from birth as white men. That’s terrifying and makes it really urgent to speak about it.” |
| • Eddie Peake, Concrete Pitch, White Cube Bermondsey, 7 February-8 April. | • Eddie Peake, Concrete Pitch, White Cube Bermondsey, 7 February-8 April. |
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