The avocado is so early 2015; the new green to garner fashion industry excitement is the courgette. So say Victoria Beckham and artist Eddie Peake, as they reveal a new squashily-entitled artwork at the designer's flagship Dover Street store.  Beckham offered the walls and windows of the store to the acclaimed British contemporary artist as a blank canvas for him to populate. The result, entitled 4: Courgettes, is a striking word sculpture executed in vibrant blue acrylic paint. Peake’s intriguing sentence reads "Many courgettes, an equal number of pellicles and very many fingers attached to fraught bodies and minds in tumult".Peake is known for considering our language and the gaps therein, seeking to exploit them. "I am always compelled by incongruous or unexpected contexts for art, or at least for my art, and this seemed like an instance of that, he commented of '4: Courgettes'. He explores the immediacy of words, conflicts of communication, and meanings lost in translation - a feature which piqued Beckham's interest.  I find Victoria quite an impressive figure with a good spirit," he quipped, continuing that he wanted to make something colourful and visceral in the space, but that would also have 'poetic and personal content'. "I wanted the piece to have a stark contrast to the impeccably designed and very high end commercial interior of the shop," he said.  "I first saw images of Eddie's show at the Barbican and was intrigued to find out more about his work", said Victoria Beckham. "After much discussion and many visits with him to my store, he came up with this unique and amusing site specific piece of art", she said. "The text stencilled directly onto the wall has a raw spontaneity that is such a strong contrast to the clean environment of the architecture of the space. I am incredibly excited to be able to showcase the work over the Christmas period."  The graffiti-style words are daubed right across the windowed façade of the store and run along an interior wall and up the boutique’s granite staircase – as if following the visitor as they shop. Whether the words are imbued with loaded meaning or simply represent Edward Lear-style absurdity for grown ups presumably depends how hungry you are…  The project continues the Farshid Moussavi-designed store’s exploratory journey as a space that engages with the British contemporary art scene. Since it launched in September 2014, it has variously housed an upside down Christmas tree by Shirazeh Houshiary, a balloon installation by Martin Creed and, earlier this year, artist Andy Hillman created an installation featuring giant foxglove blooms complete with pollinating bees.  Courgettes is a temporary installation, and will be in store until 3rd January 2016
Take a first look at the vivid installation British artist Eddie Peake has created for Victoria Beckham’s Dover Street store