The bird in question flies around the corner of a terraced-house in London. The objects that the bird may glimpse out of the corner of his eye provides the inspiration for Fabian Peake (*1942). The artist draws on public space for his art: unpretentious street furniture consisting of electricity pylons, inscriptions and ads, waste bins and manhole covers all flow into his formal cosmos. Peake understands art as a phenomenon that cannot be easi- ly grasped; it is as illusive as a bird on the wing.

In paintings and drawings Fabian Peake combines abstract forms and objects in ever new ways. Things from different sphere meet in a surrealistic or dreamy way: trees, lips, cars, ties or burning cigarettes. In between them we repeatedly find texts in the artist’s handwriting, short or long, also reversed or cut out of wooden planks with a drill. Literature is not just an important source for Peake; he himself writes short texts and poems.