Dutton, Peacock and Swindells' work touches on a number of themes and there are no particular restrictions on media. Currently however, much of their most recent work has involved the use of large scale (and often inverted or revolving) photographs, subtitled videos and large wall texts. Their work is very much process based and often evolves from a central motif or image. Such motifs have included a magnolia flower, a volcano, a quarry and an abandoned village in Turkey, yet these motifs are never represented directly. Instead, the motifs are used as poetic devices around which the artists construct and mediate photographs, videos, texts and objects into formations, which, in the words of Gary Michael Dault of the Toronto Globe and Mail, are "inexplicably compelling"

 

Steve Dutton and Percy Peacock began collaborating on projects in 1996 having already exhibited individually at a national and international level. Their collaborative work includes exhibitions at the Museum of Installation in London, UK, Optica in Montreal and Site Gallery, Sheffield U.K. In 1998 they were recipients of a major Photo 98 award which resulted in a publication and exhibition entitled Vesuvius in which they first collaborated with Steve Swindells. The three-way collaboration then worked on projects which included Kayakoy at Pekao Gallery, Toronto in September/October 2000 and most recently Entropic Gym at Mercer Union in April 2002.