Sophie Goudman-Peachey "House of Cards"

Sophie Goudman-Peachey "House of Cards" 2025

Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 16 in, Framed 17 x 17 in
Unique
Signed on verso, includes a certificate of authenticity 

Sophie Goudman-Peachey b.1994, is a London-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work combines practices of painting, collage, textile, and printmaking to reconstruct existing narratives surrounding women in society. Her collective body of work is about women owning and reclaiming their strength and power whilst also revealing their vulnerability, femininity, androgyny and masculinity. Her work aims to turn the patriarchal narrative on its head by empowering women through intersectional politics of identity, race and sexuality and allowing space for women to be whoever they want.

“House of cards” is a portrait of a nation, with an illusion of stability (and democracy) hanging over something already burning. A cold and fragmented face is projected onto theatre-style curtains suggesting a veil drawn over reality. The scattered stars and stripes show a nation clinging to its identity, but behind the illusion, its truth is unavoidable: the house is on fire. The system is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. The fire is political, it’s environmental, it’s everything that continues to be ignored. The cold, dark exterior - detached, mechanical, digital - stands in stark contrast against the rawness of destruction. The figure, draped in ethereal white, moves towards the flames with defiance. Is she resigned to its fate, or does she believe there’s something worth saving in the flames? She represents a number of things; the people who are targeted and marginalized, democracy, the next generation walking into a future shaped by past failures.‘House of cards’ is a reckoning, a moment suspended between what was promised and what remains. It’s a call to realise the house is already burning and collapsing.” - Sophie Goudman-Peachey