Factual Actual: Ensemble is Southwark Park Galleries’ new immersive and performative installation by internationally renowned choreographer and visual artist Florence Peake. Enveloping both our galleries, Peake’s major solo commission will present a body of monumental paintings using her distinctive gestural, and movement marking techniques.
Respected for her queer approach and non-hierarchical process, Peake often works with a multitude of diverse collaborators and part of this commission was collectively developed in a series of public workshops at Southwark Park Galleries in November 2022. Re-interpreting and expanding on a performance at the National Gallery in 2021, this exhibition interrogates what a painting can be, resisting a classical and static tradition, through the movement of the body.
Co-commissioned by Southwark Park Galleries, London, and Towner, Eastbourne, in partnership with Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, where the exhibition will tour later in 2023 and 2024.
This touring commission is made possible with thanks to Arts Council England, Cockayne – Grants for the arts, London Community Foundation and The Paul and Louise Cooke Endowment.
Florence Peake in conversation with art writer and critic Louisa Buck.
Thursday 16 May, 6:30-8pm
SOUTHWARK PARK GALLERIES // 1 PARK APPROACH, SOUTHWARK PARK, LONDON SE16 2UA
16 APRIL – 2 JULY 2023 // LAKE GALLERY // DILSTON GALLERYPREVIEW: SATURDAY 15 APRIL // 12-5PM, ‘FACTUAL ACTUAL’ DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE AT DILSTON GALLERY 12-4PM, DRINKS RECEPTION 3-5PM
EXHIBITION OPEN: LAKE GALLERY: WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, 11AM–5PM // DILSTON GALLERY: SATURDAY – SUNDAY, 11AM–5PM
