His work includes performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation.

His art focuses on "implicit drama within relationships between people", and "how things like desire, sexuality and depression impact on them".

His grandparents are writer Mervyn Peake and artist Maeve Gilmore.

He has four siblings, including artist Florence Peake.

[1] Peake designed the cover for A Short Affair, and a unique artwork inside the book created in response to Will Self’s new short story Civilisation.