Sam Peacock - Friday 21st April 2017

Highgate Contemporary Art
Sam Peacock
Friday 21st April 2017



Reception: Friday 21st April 2017
We would like to invite you to view a selection of Sam’s work on Friday 21st April.
We are offering individual one hour slots for designers to come and see Sam’s work in the flesh. Sam will be on hand to answer any questions about process and installation of his pieces and we will also have sample panels available for you to take back to the office with you and keep on file. Please call on 020 8340 7564 to book your time.
Sam Peacock has worked on many commission for both residential and commercial properties. Creating stunning and unique feature walls as well as wall hanging work and sculpture. His extraordinary process, variety of materials and clever use of colour enables Sam to create striking, cutting edge works of art.
Sam’s work is extremely original, contemporary and highly sought-after. If you are interested in commissioning Sam for any of your projects or would like any further information in the meantime, then please do not hesitate to contact the gallery.
With best wishes, Hannah Ivory Baker
Owner / Director Highgate Contemporary Art





Sam Peacock has worked professionally as a painter since 2007, graduated from Coventry University in 1998 with a BA in Fine arts. Immediately taken a sabbatical from painting full time to teach art practice at several institutions in London until returning to full time painting.
He's worked on several collections over the years and has solo showed in Berlin, Sydney and London with several more shows planned into 2017. Recently undertaken a 6 month project focusing on the effects of Hydraulic Fracturing within the UK and gave an artist’s response in the form of 52 separate images, each titled with a place name where planned fracking was to take place.
His first solo in Sydney looked into the unseen landscape in NSW which culminated in taking the idea to London and exhibiting works based on site visits, bushwalks, and rock and earth samples collected whilst travelling and exploring.
Peacock has also taken responsibility as arts co-ordinator for the “Stratford Fringe Festival” curating yearly shows across the town.
As his work has matured over the years, he has kept material links to previous collections as motifs within the main body of the work, retaining the sugar and coffee elements, the strips of liquorice which define the horizon line, the carbolic soap alongside building materials such as plaster, the element of intense heat to distort and infuse colour, the blinding areas of light tamed by a darkened varnish.
Peacock is currently working on various ideas regarding changes in the landscapes of villages and towns in the South of England and across the North East coastline over the past 1000 years culminating in the “Province collection and the tradition with naming each piece after a site visit undertaken.
Sam Peacock is represented by galleries in London, Nottingham, Germany, Australia and online.



“Fire is e lifeblood behind e work, it gives e work its soul and its spirit shaping the colours I apply and making each piece individual.”
~Sam Peacock



Recent Commission Work



Photos of latest commission work
Left to right: Main Foyer, Bar area, Main Foyer
Each wall measured approximately 9 metres in length and 4 metres in height, requiring just under half a tonne of steel. Other materials that were used included coffee which was imported directly from Moka Mafia Coffee company, who import ethically sourced coffee from Africa.
This project was done with a 5 week turn-around from the start of making the pieces to finish, once the design and colour scheme were decided on. Three weeks to create the panels, one week drying time and one week for installation.



Bar Area



Colour panels 30 x 30cm



Solo Shows
2011 Via La Vadetta, Firenze, Italy. (Part funded by the British Council)
2012 Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney, NSW ( Solo Show)
2013 Berlin Avantgarde, Berlin, Germany (With Fabian Freese)
2013 Curious Duke Gallery, London (Unseen Landscape Solo Show)
2014 Timberyard, Covent Garden, London ( With RoysPeople)
2015 Curious Duke, London (Fractured Collection)
2016 Pack of Patches Gallery. Jena, Germany (Solo Show)
Art Fairs 2015:
June: Hampstead AAF, London. October: Battersea AAF, London. December: Flux, London.



Catalogue



Tackleway coffee, paint on steel 30 x 30cm £400
Crown coffee, paint on steel 30 x 30cm £400 Edmund coffee, paint on steel 30 x 30cm £400



Pett Level Sketch II coffee, paint on steel 45 x 60cm £700


Pett Level Sketch I coffee, paint on steel 45 x 60cm £700
Githa coffee, paint on steel 30 x 30cm £400

Pett Level Sketch III coffee, paint on steel 45 x 60cm £700
Barley coffee, paint on steel 30 x 30cm £400



Silverhill Pass coffee, paint on steel 100 x 150cm £2,500



Amherst coffee, sugar, paint on steel 100 x 150cm £2,500



Brakes Copice Gold leaf, coffee, sugar, paint on steel 100 x 150cm £2,500



White Rock coffee, sugar, paint on steel 100 x 150cm £2,500



Southcliffe coffee, sugar, paint on steel 100 x 150cm £2,500


Highgate Contemporary Art
26 Highgate High Street, London N6 5JG 020 8340 7564 [email protected] www.highgateart.com
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm. Sunday 11am - 5pm