Flora Bradwell is an artist whose playful practice revels in the generously grotesque. Flora has exhibited internationally and collaborated in curating site responsive projects, performance events and exhibitions across the UK. Curatorial roles include co-director at Bad Art, curator at Inland Project and a member of the icing room collective. In 2011 Flora co-founded Greenhorn Short Film Festival, an annual London-wide event celebrating emerging film making talent; producing five editions of the festival. Flora runs artist residencies from her shed in Walthamstow: Gaff Space. Flora has also undertaken teaching placements at Kingston School of Art, Camberwell College of Arts and City and Guilds of London Art School.

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 Solo Shows
2020
Hungry Boots, Patio Project, London
2016
Bella Lordwarf: More Cake Please!, The Exchange at Brunswick East, London

Selected Group Shows
2022
ME2U: A Collective Manifesto, The Nunnery Gallery, London
In Bloom, Future DMND, Los Angeles
Skin of Your Teeth, The Crypt Gallery, London
Snakes on a Picture Plane, UK Mexican Arts Society, London
2021
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Birthday Party, The Artists Contemporary, online
Tehom, SIM Gallery, Reykjavik
2020
Phlorysta, Rua do Grillo, Lisbon
Slade Showcase, Kristin Hjellegjerd Gallery, London
2019
Cartoons and Cereal, Offshoot Gallery, London
Catching Flies, University of Kent, Canterbury
Raw Materials: Plastics, Nunnery Gallery, London
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
Pulling Teeth, ASC Gallery, London
2018
23645721, Ovada, Oxford
General Store, Hewing Wittare, London
2017
Drink Soda, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford
Gender Fluid, Ice Space, Bath
Royal Trash, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London
2016
Garden of Earthly Delights, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff

Selected Performances | Artist Talks
2021
Feeling Both Things at Once, UK Mexican Arts Society, London
A Brief History of the Vagina Dentata, The London Drawing Group Lecture Feminist series, London
2019
Summer Pleasure Garden, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2018
Dice Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh
LOVE SICK, Laugh Magazine, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London
The Anarchist Feminist Party, Ugly Duck, London
2017
The Lady, Miranda, Ace Hotel, London
I Have A Penis, Zaratan, Lisbon
It's Alive: Live Art Cinema, Home For Waifs And Strays, The Edge, Birmingham
Institutionalised, RCA Art Bar, London

Selected Screenings
2022
The Best of BF Artist Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2019
Imagined Faraway Lands, Caraboo Projects, Bristol
2018
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck
Artists and Food, Elmer, London
2017
Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto
2016
Bogota Music Video Festival, Bogota
Feminism Video Activist Biennale, Seoul
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin
2014
Femme Fatales, LSFF, ICA, London


Selected Curatorial Projects
2022
Let Them Eat Fake, The Bomb Factory, London
2021
Bad Art Presents Hot Air, Manor Place Warehouse, London
2020
Glutton, Wells Project Space, London
2019
To Whom The Flesh, My Flesh, Still Connects Me, The Poetry Society, London
2018
Homework, Gaff Space, London
2017
Glaze, the icing room, London
More Stuff, 44 Ashdown Crescent, London
INLAND#2: Neither, touring show at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning and APT Gallery, London and Centrala, Birmingham
Sublimate, the icing room, London
Minotaur Maze, The Crypt Gallery, London
2016
Member, ArtsLav, London

Awards | Scholarships | Grants
2021
Jeanne Szego Prize
Sarabande Bursary Prize
2018-21
Felix Slade Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art
2017
ASC Artist Development Award


Selected Residencies
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