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 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.
Education
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
Exhibitions
2022 Playground, Better Go South (solo)
2022 Out of Nowhere, Soho Revue (curated)
2022 Women Empowered, JD Malat Gallery
2022 PADA Residency
2022 That Wilderness Within, Prior Space
2022 Hiraeth with Phillips X PriorSpace
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 with The Columbia
2021 Safe As Milk with Arusha Gallery
2021 Artist Contemporary online Atelier
2020 Life of Venus with The tub, Hacknney
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
Represented in Italy by C+N Gallery CANEPANERI (info@canepaneri.com)