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Flo Brooks: Harmonycrumb
Spike Island is excited to present Harmonycrumb, a new commission by Flo Brooks exploring trans and gender-nonconforming histories through painting and assemblage.
The exhibition includes seven acrylic paintings appliqued onto found fabric, and six assemblages composed of lino flooring cutouts and handmade objects. Together, these works explore speculative entanglements between Brook鈥檚 own life and the experiences of different historical figures, including military leader Joan of Arc (1412-31), 鈥榝emale husband鈥� Charles Hamilton (1721-46), and physician Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62).
Embedded in the materials of domestic space, which Brooks describes as 鈥榯he first space of dreaming, fantasising, worlding,鈥� each work originates from fragments of these people鈥檚 lives, gleaned from newspaper clippings, autobiographical descriptions and visits to the places they lived and worked.
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Spike Island is excited to present Harmonycrumb, a new commission by Flo Brooks exploring trans and gender-nonconforming histories through painting and assemblage.
The exhibition includes seven acrylic paintings appliqued onto found fabric, and six assemblages composed of lino flooring cutouts and handmade objects. Together, these works explore speculative entanglements between Brook鈥檚 own life and the experiences of different historical figures, including military leader Joan of Arc (1412-31), 鈥榝emale husband鈥� Charles Hamilton (1721-46), and physician Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62).
Embedded in the materials of domestic space, which Brooks describes as 鈥榯he first space of dreaming, fantasising, worlding,鈥� each work originates from fragments of these people鈥檚 lives, gleaned from newspaper clippings, autobiographical descriptions and visits to the places they lived and worked.
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