Preview: MILLY PECK 'THE SLIP'

We are delighted to announce that Milly Peck is creating a work for Tintype’s window, visible from the street while the gallery is closed during August.

Peck’s work probes and dramatises a push-pull between flat images and three-dimensional objects. She makes sculptures that often have the appearance of a pictorial image, and wall based work that is three-dimensional. 

Peck graphically renders images pulled from daily life into outlines or chunky cut-outs. Bricks, cigarette stubs, wheelie bins, a lawnmower, a bath, a car-wash, windows, water pipes, bucket and mop, an oversized pair of spectacles....scenes hand-drawn from the everyday and the domestic sphere are comically exaggerated and transformed through a cartoonish filter. Often a lone hand makes an appearance, squeezing a sponge, delicately picking up a stray hair, wielding a hammer. Her show at Matt’s Gallery in 2017 mischievously interrogated domestic architectural details, particularly the mock Tudor beams and fenestration found on and in many a suburban home. Her recent exhibition at Assembly Point was a set-like construction – a bathroom and its plumbing farcically mimicing the methodical step-by-step logic of an instructional home improvement manual. 

Continuing her ongoing exploration of ideas surrounding imitation, flatness and the stage prop, Peck’s Tintype window installation plays on the way that empty shops often become temporarily whited out to signify their closed status – for Peck this is a surface to draw onto, leaving a section for a work to hang and be framed by the white glass. 

MILLY PECK graduated from MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2016 where she was awarded The David Troostwyk/Matt’s Gallery Studio Award which concluded with a solo show, LOUD KNOCK, at Matt’s Gallery (Studio Space), London in 2017. Recent shows she has participated in include: Pressure Head, Assembly Point, London; Cypher Billboard Project, London; Refinding: Jessie Flood-Paddock with Kenneth Armitage, The Tetley, Leeds; Mudhook at Tintype, London; Top Bantz, The Royal Standard, Liverpool.