In celebration of the Turner Prize opening weekend, the Winter Garden, Eastbourne in association with the De La Warr Pavilion will host iconic feminist musician, producer, director, and performance artist, Peaches on September 30.
Peaches has spent more than two decades pushing boundaries and breaking barriers, dramatically altering the landscape of popular culture as she forged a bold progressive path that’s opened the doors for countless others to follow.
Through music, art, film, theatre, television, and books, she has upended stereotypes and embraced taboos, challenging social norms and patriarchal power structures while championing LGBTQ+ rights and issues of gender and identity with biting wit and fearless originality.
She first found international stardom with her 2000 debut, The Teaches of Peaches, an album which introduced the world to Peaches’ raunchily explosive persona. Since then, she’s released four more critically acclaimed albums prompting the New York Times to dub her a “genuine heroine”.
In addition to collaborating with everyone from Daft Punk and The Flaming Lips, to P!nk and Iggy Pop her music has been honoured with the prestigious Polaris Heritage Prize and been featured in cultural watermarks like Lost In Translation, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Broad City, and studied at universities around the world.
An equally prolific visual and performance artist, Peaches has directed over 20 of her own videos, curated a stunning book of Holger Talinski photographs documenting her life on and off the road, and participated in some of modern art’s most prominent gatherings, including Art Basel Miami and the Venice Biennale.
Peaches joined forces with Yoko Ono on a recreation of her iconic 1964 performance Cut Piece at the 2013 Meltdown Festival in London. Ono later said that Cut Piece will never be performed again with such eloquence, adding “I have a clear vision of future women artists led by the creative courage of Peaches.”
Experience Peaches at the Winter Garden, Eastbourne on Saturday September 30, 7pm, tickets priced at £36.50, over 18s only. Call the box office on 01323 412000 or online www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk.
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