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Gavin Peacock

born London, UK. 1970. lives and works Brighton, UK

Selected Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions
2008 Take Wing Shot by the Sea, Hastings
2008 Clouded Permanent Gallery, Brighton
2008 Views From Here various venues, Stoke-on-Trent
2006 build! dismantle! repeat! Permanent Gallery, Brighton
2004 Flat Pack / Paper City Red Gallery, Hull
2002 Target Practice Switchspace, Glasgow
2001 7 Modular Pieces Brighton Artists Gallery
1994 O Light Invisible West End Centre, Aldershot

Selected Group Exhibitions (since 2000)
2009 Brian McClave: Collaborative Projects 2000 to 2009 Focal Point Gallery, Southend
2009 (tbd) Babel, Trondheim, Norway
2008 Around Photography Brighton Photo Fringe
2008 Sound:Space South Hill Park, Bracknell
2008 Collision Area 10, Peckham, London
2008 (un)realised Black Dog Studios, Lewes
2008 APEC Open 2008 APEC, Hove
2006 Compton Skyline Brighton
2006 Paperworks Bury Art Gallery and Museum
2006 City Running Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2005 STANCE Market Gallery, Glasgow
2005 States of Union? Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2005  contemporary gallery returns Contemporary Gallery, Brighton
2005  an appointment with APEC Christopher Gull, Brighton
2004 Imagine One Canada Square, London
  Transition Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2002 Hands Free The Crypt Gallery, Seaford

Video Screenings

includes details of specific video screenings during solo, collaborative and group exhibitions as well as one-off events.
2009 Wrestle Focal Point Gallery, Southend
2008 Clouded Permanent Gallery, Brighton; Collision, Area 10, Peckham, London; Sound:Space, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2008 Take Wing Shot by the Sea film festival, Hastings
2008 Wrestle Bethesda Chapel, Hanley; Permanent Gallery, Brighton
2008 This Way Floral Hall, Tunstall; NSRP Launch, Stoke-on-Trent
2008 Latent School of Art, Burslem
2008 Surrounds 'Hanley Girl', Longton
2008 One All Another Roadside Attraction, London
2007 6 x untitled time-lapse flat pack videos Compton Skyline Project, Brighton

Public Art projects
2008 Views From Here Stoke-On-Trent
2006 Compton Skyline Project Brighton

Mail Art

2007 minimalism on the streets!  
2005-ongoing flat pack two  
2006 the man from icon in belfast correspondence project  
1997 the Institute of Iconography  

Curation

2007 Relay Friese Greene Gallery, Brighton
2007 Signal online
2005 pilot eta project space, Hove

Residencies

2009 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Trondheim, Norway
2006 Centre for Suburban Research Belfast, Northern Ireland
1994 West End Centre Aldershot, UK

Commissions and awards
2008 Shot by the Sea film festival - new film commission
2007 Place Space and Identity public art project - Views From Here
2007 Design phase of Wigan Enigma public art project
2006 Compton Skyline Project commission
2004 Arts Council England South West office relocation project shortlist
2004 Art in SEEDA commission shortlist
2004 Design phase of Hove City Park public art commission
2003 Sussex University public art commission shortlist
2003 Brighton + Hove NHS Trust public art commission shortlist
2002 South East Arts, Grants For Artists for new work

Publications
2008 Raw Material, Liz Lock and Mishka Henner, ISBN 1-904869-05-X.Book commissioned for Place, Space and Identity
2008 Field Report 2007. Field Study Publications, Australia
2007 Ltd. edition double CD archive of finetuned Signal project. Photography and packaging design
2007 City Running, Greg Daville. Documentation of City Running, Brighton 2006
2007 Call for a Demonstration, Annika Ström. Published by onestar Press, Paris. ISBN 2-915359-23-7. Documentary photographs included in book work by Annika Ström
2007 ReSite no.6. Field Study Publications, Australia

Other Projects

2005-ongoing Co-curator and Director of finetuned
2003-ongoing Co-founder and Director of APEC studios, Hove

Education
1990 - 1993 K.I.A.D, Canterbury BA (Hons) Fine Art: First Class
1988 - 1990 Reigate School of Art and Design BTEC ND General Art and Design

Statement
Due to interests in both art and photography the manner with which artwork is documented has fascinated me for a long time. In exhibtions and catalogues I am always enthralled by archive photographs of artists at work, their studios, exhibition installations, models, etc. Sometimes I prefer the documentation of work to the work itself.
My own early works could be considered to be in a lineage from Abstract Expressionism through Minimalism to Conceptual Art. They were serial, modular in form and three-dimensional, and the placement of the work in a space was often fundamentally important. Therefore it was important to document the work carefully and from multiple viewpoints. Later I started to explore the latency in the modular forms and production processes of my work, and through this the relationship between the role of the artist and audiences. As the work became more ephemeral and transitory in nature it was paramount that the documentation captured differing aspects of the work, and thus differing narratives and histories of the work. The multiple viewpoints were now concerned with time as well as space so video became a vital part of documentation.
Through this ongoing processI have become increasingly interested in the notion of documentation as art work in itself, not just the simple recording of an object or event. I am currently interested in the discovery and exploration of a place through the process of making work in that place.