PEER UK LTD
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Mission Statement
Peer is a not-for-profit neighbourhood space for contemporary art, located in Hoxton, East London. We place artists and local communities at the heart of our internationally recognised programmes of public exhibitions, collaborative projects, talks, events and offsite commissions. Located in a converted shopfront in Arden Estate on Hoxton Street, Peer overlooks and maintains Khadija’s Garden. Peer has a critically acclaimed 24-year history as one of London’s most experimental spaces for contemporary art and has worked with artists including Chris Ofili, Mike Nelson, Bob & Roberta Smith, Danh Võ, Fiona Banner, Emma Hart, Jimmy Robert, Jadé Fadojutimi, Lubna Chowdhary and Moi Tran, among many others. To support and encourage dialogue between visitors, artists and their work, a programme of event-based activity takes place throughout each exhibition. Peer’s Programme for 2023 addresses themes of collective work, interdependency, and place. Throughout the year we develop exhibitions and new commissions with artists Tanoa Sasraku, Iris Touliatou, and Leah Clements, as well as a survey exhibition that explores cultural, artistic, and experimental cooperative initiatives that took place in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s. Central to all our activities is Peer Ambassadors, a rolling six-month, creative programme designed for, and led by, young people aged 17-25 from underrepresented and lower socio-economic backgrounds based in Peer’s local area. The programme offers paid work experience at our street-facing gallery, alongside a free professional development and learning programme. The Ambassadors also work closely with an Ambassador Artist in Residence throughout 2023-24 on a new ambitious public commission. Much of our programme is produced in partnership with national and international collaborators, as well as residents, local community organisers, educators, service providers, schools, libraries and charities. Peer is a registered charity and part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio. Peer is supported by Hackney Council through a Voluntary Community Sector Lease. All of our exhibitions and the majority of events are free and open to all.
About This Cause
In 1998 The Pier Trust was established with support from The Glass House Trust as a nomadic curatorial project that produced public art and temporary exhibitions. The name Peer was implemented under Ingrid Swenson OBE, who was Director of Peer from 1999 to 2021. Swenson established Peer as a critically acclaimed art organisation that offered artists unwavering support at key moments in their careers and led the organisation through an ambitious capital redevelopment project that was completed in 2015 by Trevor Horne Architects. In 2002 Peer secured local authority premises in the form of a 1970s shop unit on Hoxton Street, located next to the post office and opposite Hackney Community College where we remain to this day. In 2015 the shop front was transformed to include a 10-metre-wide glass façade to bring our work straight onto the street, Khadija’s Garden a public green space named in memory of Peer’s previous employee who was tragically killed in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, and two permanent public art commissions by London Fieldworks and Turner-prize winning artist Chris Ofili. Peer has developed and delivered a vast array of major commissions presented as exhibitions by artists at critical stages of their practice and staying true to our roots as a public art organisation, we have also commissioned several public realm projects in Shoreditch and Hackney. Alongside commissioning new work by artists, Peer programmes an event-based and community-led programme of workshops, in-conversations, tours, horticultural projects, participatory events and artist talks. At the core of Peer’s local work is our Ambassador programme, which was launched in 2017 and continues to this day. Over 24-years, we have secured a track record as one of the UK’s most ground-breaking arts organisations. During this time, Peer has departed from our origins as a non-venue based curatorial project to a successful and sustainable arts organisation with local focus and international reach, championing new and global discourses in contemporary art. In 2021 Swenson stepped down as Director after 23 years, and Peer welcomed Ellen Greig as its new Director in March 2022.