Amélie Peace is a French artist based in London. She examines the human condition through her evocative “intimacy-landscapes” in painting and printmaking. Her art seamlessly blends imagination with queer literature, drawing on socio-historical influences to challenge societal norms surrounding sexuality, emotion, and connection. She explores the power of human touch through fluid gestures and layered compositions, revealing enigmatic figures that embody both vulnerability and strength.
Her characters, often interwoven as if they once shared a body, evoke a sense of physical dependence, illustrating how every interaction might reveal one’s self-perception. Acting as a narrator, Peace unpicks the intricate and often contradictory nature of human behaviour. Transitioning seamlessly from gesture to emotion, she weaves stories that invite observers into a psychophysical dialogue. Each painting acts as a stage negotiating the tension between connection and disconnection - a tension grounded in reflections on historical absence and the indeterminacy of what is yet to come.
Colour plays a central role in activating the psychological depth of her characters. Pops of orange or crimson call attention to instances where bodies split and double. Darkness creeps in too, throwing a subject’s face into relief or tracing the shadow of a hand. Hands, whether poised or in motion, serve as symbolic anchors, guiding the audience through the precise interplay between movement and emotion. With a balance of focus and ambiguity, Peace conjures dreamlike scenes that flicker between reality and illusion.
Every gaze in Peace’s work is both comforting and confronting, drawing the viewer into a complex web of relational dynamics. Through layered compositions and theatrical framing, Peace suspends time, drawing us into a space where intimacy and estrangement intertwine — asking not just what we see, but what awakens in us when we truly dare to look.
2017-2020 Foundation Diploma (Distinction), City & Guilds of London Art School 2015-2016
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2025 Figurative Impressions; In Plain Sight, Hurst Contemporary
2025 Contents Will Vary, Frederick and Frieser
2025 Persona, Fredericks and Freiser
2024 As Touch Fades Into Shadows (solo), Fredericks and Freiser 2024 The Armoury Show, Fredericks and Frieser
2024 Miart Art Fair Milan, C+N Gallery Canepaneri
2024 London Original Print Fair, Soho Revue
2023 Roma Artenin Nuvola Art Fair, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI
2023 Young Talents: Polymathic Nature Step. 2, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI Milan, IT
2023 Young Talents: Polymathic Nature, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI Genoa, IT
2022 Her, Fir Gallery, Beijing, CH
Road to Somewhere, The Room London, UK
Playground, Better Go South (solo), Stuttgart, DE
Out of Nowhere, Soho Revue (curated), London, UK
Women Empowered, JD Malat Gallery London, UK
PADA Residency, Lisbon, PT
That Wilderness Within, Prior Space 2022 Hiraeth with Phillips X PriorSpace 2022 Paper works with Later Editions, London, UK
Pathways on Paper, with South Parade, London, UK
2021 Saturnalia with Purslane X Art City Works
On Reflection, curated by Tess Tomassini at The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2021 Print Fair with The Tub Hackney, London, UK
A Chorus of Bodies with Liliya Art Gallery, London, UK
Private at The Columbia, London, UK
Safe as Milk with Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Artist Contemporary online Atelier
2020 Life of Venus with The Tub, Hackney, London, UK
Curated for Christmas with Allmouth Gallery
AfterHours show with Bowes Parris Gallery, London, UK
Not Over with Unit 1 Gallery Workshop 2020 Included in Artmazemag Spring Edition 18
Curated for Covid online exhibition
Showing with All Mouth Gallery
2019 Curated and exhibited in RAW exhibition
2018 Interim Show at Downstairs in Mother
RESIDENCES
2025 Palazzo Monti
2024 Good Eye Projects Residency 2024 Hangar Residency
2022 PADA Residency