Peer

Events at Peer

• Bill Culbert: State of Light

  Exhibition

  8 Oct 2009 to 28 Nov 2009

  In an interview with French curator and writer Gladys Fabre in 1986, Bill Culbert commented, 'To live is to participate and art participates in life.' Bill Culbert does not follow his artistic practice as a rarefied activity, but as one that is fundamentally connected to the daily business of living. The lexicon of materials and objects from which Culbert constructs his work is often characterised by a celebration of everyday domesticity - colourful disused detergent bottles, empty oil cans, simple wooden furniture, garden implements, glasses filled with wine, lampshades, plastic buckets, enamelled pitchers, old suitcases. And always key to the work is the use of light - emitting from light bulbs, fluorescent tubes or the sun. Culbert admires functional design, and how, through our different use of material culture and the fabricated object, we negotiate our path through and around life.

   

• Peer

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  Peer is an independent arts organisation that develops and presents projects in a range of media and in various locations, including our gallery space on Hoxton Street, London. Peer began their programme of activities in autumn 1998 and since then has produced between three and five projects a year. Its activities have primarily been concerned with the visual arts, but it has also worked with musicians, filmmakers, writers and philosophers.