Adam Peacock (UK) is a post-disciplinary artist, architect, academic and consultant living in London. Adam’s experimental lens, The Validation Junky, developed on his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art (2012-14), focuses upon investigating the effects of the internet upon contemporary identity expression and self-perception within photographic communication; straddling fashion academia, experimental architectural methodology, fine art practice, consumer psychology, genetic technology, cybernetic theory, and social anthropology. The most notable project developed under his lens, The Genetics Gym, primarily developed within the 2016 Design Residency at the Fashion Space Gallery at London College of Fashion, was featured in the BBC Radio 1 Stories documentary DNA+ Beauty (2018), and was presented as the opening keynote speech at the 2018 Product Innovation Apparel conference in Milan. The project has been exhibited at the Science Gallery Melbourne and Science Gallery Dublin as part of Perfection (2018-2019). It was awarded the Robert Garland Treseder Fellowship at the University of Melbourne (2018), and published as a chapter in ‘Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications’ by Bloomsbury (2020).
