Collection of FLORA BRADWELL in a gallery layout

FLORA BRADWELL

A compulsion towards the carnivalesque and a vibrant trashy aesthetic are key to Flora Bradwell's playful practice. Encompassing painting, sculpture, video and performance Bradwell's work revels in the generously grotesque. Compositions of frescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a fantastical filter to create dimly recognisable imagined worlds. Camp and theatrics are employed to demonstrate the ridiculousness of patriarchal systems and gossip fuels visual flights of fancy as the props of daily life are put on a pedestal.


​Bradwell completed her BA in Painting at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2009 and her MFA at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. While at the Slade she received the The Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary.


Flora Bradwell is a recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award 2023 and artist in Residence at Van Gogh Huis in April 2023. Her work has been exhibited, screened and performed internationally including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Nunnery Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts in London, at Future DMND, LA, Zaratan, Lisbon and at the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck. Bradwell has completed residencies at Elephant Lab, London(2022), Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, SIM, Reykjavik (2021) and Colart, London (2019). Bradwell also curates art events, exhibitions and happenings across the UK and is Co-Director of Bad Art.

ARTWORKS

EXHIBITIONS

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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

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