Talk
Poetry reading with Caspar Heinemann
27 Jul 2023
Spike Island
Bristol, United Kingdom
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FLO BROOKS, 'WORK IN PROGRESS' (2022), ACRYLIC ON CANVAS. COURTESY THE ARTIST
Exhibition
Flo Brooks: Harmonycrumb
10 Jun 2023 – 10 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 133 Cumberland Road
- Bristol
- BS1 6UX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 506 via Temple Meads
- Bristol Temple Meads
Event map
Paintings on canvas, vinyl flooring and collaged textiles interweave fragments of the lives of transmasculine figures from history.
About
A new commission by Flo Brooks exploring autobiography, memory and speculative history painting. Paintings on canvas, vinyl flooring and collaged textiles interweave fragments of the lives of transmasculine figures from history—such as the 18th century English ‘female husband’ Charles Hamilton—with memories of Brooks’ own adolescence, tracing queer connection and complication across time and space.
FLO BROOKS
Flo Brooks (b. 1987) is an artist based in West Cornwall. He works across painting, collage, publication, installation and social practice. Merging autobiography with fiction, Brooks’ works coalesce around ideas of selfhood, belonging and temporality, most often taking form in densely layered acrylic paintings that for him act as a kind of repository for complex feeling, memory and social and political histories.
Recent solo exhibitions include: 'Be tru to your rec', Project Native Informant, London, 2022; 'Angletwich', Brighton CCA, which travelled to Tramway, Glasgow, 2020 – 2021, and Scrubbers, Project Native Informant, London, 2018. Group exhibitions include Bodies in space, MIRROR, Plymouth, 2022, SEEN, Newlyn Art gallery and The Exchange, Cornwall, 2022; 'Beano: The Art of breaking the rules', Somerset House, London, 2022; and 'Kiss my genders', Hayward gallery, London, 2019.
