Gavin Peacock studied painting at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, but his work has included process-based sculpture, installation, video, photography and participatory projects. Since 2006 he has worked predominantly in the field of digital video. Recent work has been concerned with mapping, or indexing, space and time through the process of video production, often referencing the Romantic notion of the sublime and western histories of landscape painting and photography as well as filmmaking.

He was co-founder and director of APEC studios in Hove, and of finetuned, an artist-led curatorial agency which commissioned and exhibited work by artists who engage with sound. He has exhibited widely nationally and in Europe, and has been actively involved in several artist-led exhibitions and projects, and instigated and participated in many international mail art projects.