About the Artist
Amelie Peace is a French artist based in London, and she examines the human condition using wrapped figuration and the construction of ‘intimacy-landscapes’ through painting and printmaking. She seeks to refine the art of gesture by carefully composing images that tinker with the sexual, emotional and social ideologies around touch and physical connectivity.
Her characters, interlaced with one another often render a sense of physical dependence, as if the figures once shared a body. They depict how every exchange with another person alters our understanding of our own bodies. Peace’s work serves as a mirror for both her personal life experiences, and observations of the world around her. Her images probe at human behaviour, unpicking the complex tensions around intimacy and control. Intentionally ambiguous, the psychophysical dialogues she explores invite interpretation, leaving ample space for individual reflection and emotional engagement.
She employs colour and texture as expressive tools, strategically placed to emphasise the nuances within the narrative. Hands play an important role in Peace’s exploration, whether in action or at rest, they serve as symbolic elements guiding viewers through the complexities of the relationships depicted. They are signposts in amongst the chaos, anchors within the complex compositions she explores. Each gaze is confronting, demanding the viewer to engage with the theatrical puzzles that Peace has crafted in her pursuit to illuminate the complexities of human emotion.
Canvas
Prints
Paper
Exhibitions
2025
Minestrone, Palazzo Monti
A Hyena Wore My Face Last Night, C+N Gallery Canepaneri
Figurative Impressions, Hurst Contemporary
Contents May Vary, Fredericks and Frieser
Persona, Fredericks & Frieser
2024
As Touch Fades Into Shadows, Fredericks & Freiser (solo)
The Armoury Show, Fredericks & Freiser
Miart Art Fair Milan, C+N Gallery Canepaneri
London Original Print Fair, Soho Revue
2023
Roma Artenin Nuvola Art Fair, C+N Gallery Canepaneri
Young Talents: Polythmathic Nature, Step 2, C+N Gallery Canepaneri (Milan)
Young Talents: Polythmathic Nature, C+N Gallery Canepaneri (Genoa)
2022
Her, Fir Gallery
Road to Somewhere, Hew Hood Gallery
Playground, Better Go South (solo)
Out of Nowhere, Soho Revue (curated)
Women Empowered, JD Malat Gallery
That Wilderness Within, Prior Space
Hiraeth with Phillips X PriorSpace
Paper works, Later Editions
Pathways on Paper, with South Parade
Residencies
2025 Palazzo Monti Residency
2024 Good Eye Projects Residency
2024 Hangar Residency
2022 PADA Residency
160 x 130cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
38 x 31cm
acrylic on canvas with
restored antique cherry wood tray
2025
130 x 120cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
140x120cm
acrylic on canvas
2025
101.5 x 76 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
120 x 110cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
60 x 55 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
180 x 140 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
130 x 120 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
140 x 120 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
65.5 x 65.5 cm
Acrylic on hexagonal canvas
2025
140 x 120 cm
Acrylic on canvas,
2024
120 x 110 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
110 x 95 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
110 x 95 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
125 x 110 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
90 x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
110 x 95 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2023
90 x 75 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
120 x 110 xm
Acrylic on canvas
2023
126x124cm, A
Acrylic on canvas,
2024
125 x 110 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024
Canvas: 2023
Tired of Dreaming, 90x80cm, acrylic on canvas
My Heart, 120x100cm, acrylic on canvas
Vertigo, 60x50cm, acrylic on canvas
No More Sound, 50x40cm, acrylic on canvas
Battle, 165x155cm, acrylic on canvas
Fitting In, 150x140cm, acrylic on canvas
In the crooks of your body I find my religion,
144x114cm, acrylic on canvas
144x114cm, acrylic on canvas
Losing Grip, 120x100cm, acrylic on canvas
Prints: Etchings, Monoprints & Tetrapacks
“I empty my mind, I place before it the still recent taste of this first mouthful, and I feel something trembling in me, at a profound depth, something that has been dislodged and wants to rise up, something that might be unanchored; I don’t know what it is, but it climbs up slowly; I feel the resistance, hear the murmur of the distances being traversed.” ~ Marcel Proust
Printmaking is just like a puzzle, it is a calculated, reversed, complex, it has many pathways and guidlines to follow. Like this Proust quote the artist connects to printmaking unlike any other medium. Printing makes it’s own, it is addictive and enchanting. As a medium it demands precision and adherence to defined guides. For Peace, printmaking is just another way of exploring the art of gesture, the process of storytelling.
31x 22 cm, Aquating etching on Somerset paper
in Jacobean tray, 2025
in Jacobean tray, 2025
Anonymous I, 19x15cm, tetra pack print on Fabriano paper, 2024
Anonymous II, 19x15cm, tetra pack print on Fabriano paper, 2024
Anonymous III, 19x15cm, tetra pack print on Fabriano paper, 2024
Left Me Scorched, 34x28cm, soft ground aquatint etching on Fabriano paper, 2024
Me and Our Shadows, 34x28cm, soft ground aquatint etching on Fabriano paper, 2024
on recycled handmade paper, 2020
Paper:
These works made in 2021 and were a pivotal moment for the development of the artist’s practice. The first; Red Hand, was made in 2021 and the series continued until 2022. Since then, no more have been created.
Painted in acrylic on Fabriano paper, are detailed delicate mirages of figures floating in a radiating blue backgorund. Forced out of the frame by their vibrant colour palette, a lot of emotion is felt in these small paintngs on paper. The figures are sloted into one another, nearly becoming one. Hands interlaced, bodies folded over, together they are part of some fever dream reflecting human emotions, grotesque desires and desperation. This body of work was the catalyst and starting point of what is Peace’s practic ein the present.