Amélie Peace is a french-born artist currently working in London. Her practice delves into the experience of touch and the human need for physical connection. The psychophysical dialogues curated in her paintings discuss the emotional, sexual and gendered experiences. She explores what it means to be human, sheds light on desires and turmoil and how our inner lives are reflected in our bodies.

Peace captures moments that tread the line between softness and cruelty. That cruelty may be subtle at times, but one can look to the clues she has left behind for us to decipher. Hands are an apparent fascination for her as forms that are often repeated in her work; they act as portals guiding the viewer through the many storylines in the paintings.

Her characters, interlaced with one another often render a sense of physical dependence, as if her figures once shared a body. They depict how each exchange with another person alters one’s sense of their own physical self. Her paintings are not only portrayals of observations she has made, but also a mirror of parts of herself.

The intensity in colour is used as a megaphone to portray the themes she explores in her practice; what it means to speak without words and the power that can be found in the silent language of the gestural. The subject of the work often sits in contrast with the cheerful and playful colour palette. This dichotomy is an illustration of human contradictions open to the viewer’s interpretation. The characters in each painting make eye contact, challenging the viewer to engage with the theatrical puzzle that Peace has crafted in her pursuit to illuminate the complexities of human emotion.

 

 

                BA (1st class Hons) Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School 2017-2020 Foundation Diploma (Distinction), City & Guilds of London Art School 2015-2016

 

                SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

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