Flora Bradwell is a London based artist and curator whose
generously grotesque practice encompasses paintng,
sculpture, performance
and installation. Flora completed her MFA at The Slade
School of Fine Art in 2021, receiveing the Felix Slade
Award, Jeanne Szego Prize
and Sarabande Emergin Bursary while there. This year Flora
is a Gilbert Bayes Award winner, Artist in Residence at
Vincent Can Gogh Huis,
NL and an a-n Artist Bursary recipient.
Flora's vibrant trashy work has recently been exhibited at
Matt's Gallery, Staffordshire Street and Saatchi Gallery,
London; Liminal Gallery,
Margate and Future DMND, LA. Selected residencies include
Elephant Lab, London, Cyprus College of Art, Paphos and
SIM, Reykjavik.
Flora curates UK-wide art happenings and is Co-Director of
Bad Art.
contact
flora@florabradwell.com
Education
2018 - 2021 Slade School of Fine Art, Fine Art
Painting MFA
2007 - 2009 City & Guilds of London Art School,
Fine Art Painting BA
Selected Shows / Outings
2024
Gilbert Bayes Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors,
London
Strangers in the Night (CURATORIAL) Somers Gallery, London
Aanwinsten, Vincent VanGogh Huis, Zundert
2023
Let Them Eat Fake 2 (CURATORIAL), BWG Gallery,
London
Salon, Liminal Gallery, Margate
Melt, Hypha Studios, London
The Amber Room, Matt's Gallery, London
Vulvas That Bite and Other Creatures, Workshop and
talk with Open School East, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Naissance, Unit London, London
Ludicrous Alchemy, Lewisham Art House, London
Full to Bursting (CURATORIAL), Staffordshire
Street, London
Arms Around you in a Warm Embrace (SOLO),
Vincent Van Gogh Gallery, Zundert
Try a little... Tenderness, Liminal Gallery,
Margate
Who Holds The Sword (CURATORIAL), Hypha
Studios, London
Fleshy Magic, Somers Gallery, London
2022
Ghost Show, Copeland Park, London
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, Slash Arts,
London
Touch Me Baby (CURATORIAL), The Bomb
Factory, London
ME2U, The Nunnery Gallery, London
Best of BF Artist Film Festival, Whitechapel
Gallery, London
Let The Eat Fake (CURATORIAL), The Bomb
Factory, London
In Bloom, Future DMND, Los Angeles
Skin of Your Teeth (CURATORIAL), The Crypt
Gallery, London
Snakes on a Picture Plane, UK Mexican Arts Society,
London
2021
3D Women, Platform Southewark, London
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
Feeling both things at once, UK Mexican Arts Society,
London
Hot Air (CURATORIAL), Manor Place
Warehouse, London
A Brief History of the Vagina Dentata, lecture of
the London Drawing Group's Feminist Lecture Series, London
Tehom, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik
2020
Hungry Boots (SOLO), Patio Project, London
Phlorysta, Rua do Grillo, Lisbon
Slade Showcase, Kristin Hjellegjerd Gallery, London
Glutton (CURATORIAL), Wells Project Space,
London
2019
Summer Pleasure Garden, Royal Academy of Arts,
London
To Whom The Flesh, My Flesh, Still Connects Me (CURATORIAL),
The Poetry Society, London
Cartoons and Cereal, Offshoot Gallery, London
Catching Flies, University of Kent, Canterbury
I'm in the bath where are you? (CURATORIAL), the
icing room, London
Raw Materials: Plastics, Nunnery Gallery, London
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
Pulling Teeth, ASC Gallery, London
2018
European Madiea Arts Festival, Osnabruck
Homework (CURATORIAL), Gaff Space, London
Dice Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh
23645721, Ovada, Oxford
General Store, Hewing Wittare, London
The Anarchist Feminist Party, Ugly Duck, London
2017
I Have A Penis, Zaratan, Lisbon
It's Alive: Live Art Cinema, HFWS Birmingham
Sublimate (CURATORIAL), the icing room,
London
Gender Fluid, Ice Space, Bath
Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto
INLAND #2: Neither (CURATORIAL), Centrala,
Birmingham
Minotaur Maze (CURATORIAL), The Crypt
Gallery, London
Selected Awards | Scholarships | Grants
2023
Gilbert Bayes Award
a-n Artist Bursary
2021
Jeanne Szego Prize
Sarabande Bursary Prize
2018-21
Felix Slade Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art
2017
ASC Artist Development Award
Selected Residencies
2023
Van Gogh AIR, Zundert
2022
Elephant Lab, London
Lisboa Social Press, Lisbon
2021
Grampus Heritage, Cyprus College of Art, Pathos
SIM International Residency Programme, Reykjavik
2019
The Fine Art Collective Residency, ColArt, London