Flo’s practice incorporates painting, sculpture, collage, publishing, and social engagement. The curious title of the show Angletwich comes from the Devonshire dialect term for a worm used as bait in fishing, but which has since evolved to take on new meaning as a fast moving creature or child which recalls the layering of character, scene, and frenzied activity depicted in Flo’s work, as well as the artists’ recurring motif of migration.
In Angletwich, Flo has woven together a semi-autobiographical narrative of queer and trans experience in the context of growing up in the rural south west of the UK with its marginalised spaces and communities; it focuses on a series of rural archetypes such as the livestock fair, the post office, the empty bus stop, scenes which provide familiarity and loneliness simultaneously. Angletwich’s characters, scenes and places work together to develop a critical narrative of place and queer experience in Britain.
“It feels fundamental to think critically about the ways we connect with each other, and what this might look like in our own lives. I make sense of things through lived experience, through intimate relationships and the communities I’m a part of, whether that’s the rural community I grew up in, queer and trans communities, art networks or my blood family.” — Flo Brooks
The exhibition opens its preview on the 6th of August and is running until October.
Angletwich
Tramway, Glasgow
6th Aug – 4th Oct 2021
Image credit: Business as Usual / P.O., 2020 by Flo Brooks
