Emily Peasgood

[1] Peasgood creates research-led and site specific interactive artworks for galleries and outdoor public spaces, ranging from large-scale community events to intimate sound installations.

[2][3] Peasgood is best known for her work in outdoor public locations with specific communities of people, often using innovative technology and design that visitors can interact with.

[17] Peasgood was awarded a PhD by Canterbury Christ Church University for her thesis Leading with Aesthetic: Creating Accessible, Inclusive and Engaging Musical Artworks Through Experimental Processes in the Community.

In the same year she premiered BIRDS, a sung and spoken word piece observing feminine ritual and behaviour through the lens of a documentary film narrator[28] and Crossing Over,[29] a piece commissioned by Turner Contemporary to premier as part of its event commemorating the Zong massacre as depicted on J. M. W. Turner's painting The Slave Ship (1840).

In the same year, the "eerily evocative"[38] Requiem for Cross Bones[39][40] featured at MERGE Bankside[41][42] and Peasgood created The Illusion of Conscious Thought for the East Hill Cliff Railway and West Hill Cliff Railway in Hastings as part of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival.