Background
Peacock was born in Barrie, Ontario.
Peacock was born in Barrie, Ontario.
She studied at the University of Western Ontario, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978, and went on to the University of California in San Diego for her Master of Fine Arts in 1981. She has completed over twenty video works and installations and has exhibited widely throughout Canada, as well as in France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
She teaches at NSCAD University. Her published texts include “presence” in Point and Shoot: Performance et photographie (eds Michèle Thériault and France Choinière, Montreal: Editions Dazibao, 2005), “Ready Access” in Public, Number 25: Experimentalism (Toronto: Public Access, 2002), “Move This” and “4/14/99” (with Paula Levine) in LUX: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video, educated Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1998), “(in)Script” and “SiRENSONG” in By the Skin of Their Tongues: Artists’ Video Scripts, educated
Nelson Henricks and Steve Reinke (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996), and Corpus Loquendi (Body for Speaking): Body-Centred Video in Halifax 1972- 1982 (Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1994).
Her work is found in international public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. She is a recipient of the Bell Canada Award and the Canada Council Medal for her contribution to the field of video.