Carol Peace

Carol Peace, born in 1970 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, is a distinguished British sculptor renowned for her expressive figurative works. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Sculpture from Winchester School of Art in 1992 and then studied drawing completing the Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School in London during 2001-2002.

Straight after her degree show Peace established her studio at Spike Island in Bristol, (originally The Bristol Sculpture Shed) where she worked until 2004 before moving to the Paintworks studio in the same city. In 2019, she relocated her practice to Hackney, London but also tries to keep one foot in the countryside with a secondary studio in a chapel in Hay on Wye, Wales.

In 2007, Peace co-founded the Bristol Drawing School, serving as its Artistic Director until 2011. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the UK and internationally, including solo shows in London, Athens, Zurich, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Notable permanent displays of her large-scale sculptures can be found at Glyndebourne and the Dorchester's country house hotel in Ascot.

Peace's creative process is deeply rooted in drawing, which she considers essential to her sculptural practice. She sculpts primarily in clay, valuing its immediacy and fluidity, and then casts her pieces into bronze or resin, preserving those fragile but dynamic marks into something permanent. Her work delves into themes of everyday life, human relationships, and personal introspection, capturing the nuances of the human condition with both tenderness and strength.