Flora Fairbairn has been curating and producing exhibitions around the globe for over 20 years, ranging from one-off performances and installations to large-scale group exhibitions and festivals. With a background in architecture and the built environment, she is known as one of the pioneers of the pop-up movement, and for staging cutting edge exhibitions in a wide range of both derelict and recently refurbished spaces. Building on long-standing working relationships with some of the best technicians, creatives and specialists around, we deliver projects on every scale, whether compiling and installing an art collection in a new client's home, commissioning an artwork to support a charity, or producing exhibitions and installations for corporate clients and institutions.
'FLORA FAIRBAIRN IS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND INNOVATIVE CURATORS IN BRITISH ART'
- Harper's Bazaar
Past projects include:
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MELTDOWN
Visualising Climate Change 17 Feb - 5 Mar 2023 PROJECT PRESSURE PRESENTS IMAGES FROM ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AROUND THE GLOBE KÜHLHAUS BERLIN, GERMANY Unlike wildfires and flooding, glaciers are not part of the weather system and, when looking at glacier mass loss over time, one can see the result of global heating. This... Read more -
Curated at Dorfold
British Art Then and Now 29 Jan - 11 Feb 2023 Flora Fairbairn & Co. has been producing exhibitions and installations in architecturally interesting settings for more than 20 years. Now we are delighted to be collaborating with Zuleika Gallery on Curated at Dorfold: British Art Then and Now - a celebration of British Art at Dorfold Hall, Cheshire. Paintings, prints,... Read more -
Kieran Stiles at Asthall Manor
30 Sep - 20 Oct 2022 Kieran Stiles: Artist in Residence, on form 2022 Flora Fairbairn & Co. are thrilled to present an exhibition of new works by Kieran Stiles, created during his time as Artist in Residence at on form 2022, the UK’s largest sculpture exhibition in stone. Stiles’ exhibition runs from 30 September -... Read more -
Oliver Barnett at Wilcote House
2 - 6 Jun 2022 Oliver Barnett reveals a new body of work in this pop-up exhibition, curated by Flora Fairbairn, to coincide with the lighting of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon at Wilcote House. 10% of the profits from these sales go to Bridewell Gardens , an inspiring local charity based at Wilcote, which... Read more -
Once Upon a Time...
6 May - 31 Aug 2022 A GROUP EXHIBITION EXPLORING FOLKLORE, MYTHS & FAIRYTALES CO-CURATED BY FLORA FAIRBAIRN & KATIE HELLER 6-25 May 2022 23 - 25 CHILTERN STREET, LONDON W1U 7PW Tues-Sat: 11am - 6pm Sun: 2pm - 6pm 25 MAY - 31 August 2022 expanded Online: www.florafairbairn.com Mamma Andersson • Paul Archard • Oliver... Read more -
Carbon
Frieze London 13 - 17 Oct 2021 In 2021 we were engaged as curators by arts and environment charity Platform Earth to develop their inaugural exhibition in aid of their environmental carbon capture projects. The Sussex Kelp Restoration Project was earmarked as their first beneficiary. Dubbed the ‘Great British Sea Forest’, this previously vast swathe of kelp... Read more -
Dorothy Bohm: The Art of Noticing
11 Oct - 13 Dec 2021 With a career spanning over seven decades and numerous exhibitions and publications to her name, Dorothy Bohm is widely regarded as one of the doyennes of British photography. This body of work, available exclusively with Flora Fairbairn & Partners, spans some 40 years, and offers Bohm's unique perspective on a... Read more -
The Weight of an Island in the Love of the People
7 Jun - 30 Sep 2021 Against a backdrop of economic turmoil and heightened artistic tensions in Cuba, Flora Fairbairn & Co, in collaboration with Havana-based curator Sachie Hernández, presents The Weight of an Island in the Love of the People, an online exhibition of Cuban art, with 10% of profits donated to Akokán, a grassroots... Read more -
Oliver Barnett: Small Gods
19 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 Curated by Damian Nixon Produced by Flora Fairbairn Parkside, Heath Farm, Swerford, nr. Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 4BN Presented by Flora Fairbairn and Damian Nixon, this solo exhibition brings Barnett back to his birthplace, Oxfordshire, to showcase a new series of large-scale photographs communicating the power and mystery of our... Read more -
Kieran Stiles: Lightscape
14 - 28 Sep 2019 MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY As part of Merton College’s Visiting Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts, Flora Fairbairn curated Lightscape, an exhibition of new paintings by Kieran Stiles, highlighting the college as a centre for research and innovation in the arts. Read more -
Speaking in Tongues, Venice Biennale
11 May - 26 Nov 2017 Chiesa di San Gallo, 30124 Venezia, Italy Paul Benney’s epic 16ft painting, Speaking in Tongues, together with an extraordinary holophonic sound installation, was presented during the 2017 Venice Art Biennale, in the church of San Gallo, just a few steps from St Mark’s Square, Venice, Italy. In this work, Benney... Read more -
Invited
22 Jul - 19 Sep 2015 9 Hillgate Street, Notting Hill Co-curated with Philly Adams and in collaboration with Seth Stein Architects, a contemporary house in Notting Hill was transformed into an innovative exhibition space consisting of a series of evolving installations. The project was initiated to invite artists, curators, galleries and the wider arts community... Read more -
Re-Work It! at Selfridges
30 Apr - 11 Jun 2015 Selfridges, London 90 Ernest Race chairs transformed by leading artists, architects, designers and fashion icons. This unique installation was suspended from the atrium ceiling amongst the escalators to raise funds and awareness for charity The Art Room. The project involved three distinct elements: a pop-up Art Room within the flagship... Read more -
A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance
28 Sep - 24 Oct 2012 Genesis Foundation The Genesis Foundation is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by London-based Spanish artist Greta Alfaro. The exhibition, curated by Flora Fairbairn, presents two video works and a series of photographs in the Fish and Coal Building, a semi-derelict Grade II listed Victorian site.... Read more -
A Smell That Comes Through My Window
11 May - 11 Jun 2012 HAVANA CULTURA | CLUB MUSEO DEL RON, CUBA A group exhibition as part of a residency and mentoring program for emerging Cuban artists, co-produced by Flora Fairbairn and Sachie Hernández and presented at the 11th Havana Biennial through Havana Club's Havana Cultura Visual Arts Project. A total of six artists... Read more -
On&On
18 Nov 2010 - 16 Mar 2011 La Casa Encendida, Madrid 'We live in a world under constant media surveillance and control. Artists respond to this with ephemeral works which, by definition, cannot really be tracked. They use materials that are constantly evolving or have a limited lifespan. These highly disparate works, sometimes designed for a specific... Read more -
Nancy Fouts, At Home
1 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2020 Old Vicarage, London A solo exhibition in Nancy’s fantastically surreal home in Camden. Best known for reconfiguring commonplace objects & materials with a characteristically playful & provocative humour, Nancy was a “modern-day surrealist”. This was her first show for more than 20 years. Read more -
Mark Neville
7 Aug 2008 Art After Dark, Louise Blouin Foundation, London Flora Fairbairn presents video work from Mark Neville, whose high quality films and photographs look at how social documentary images are disseminated according to class, context and politics. Specialising in social documentary photography, this immersive exhibition of Neville's high-speed films explored issues of... Read more -
Concrete & Glass
1 May 2008 - 1 May 2010 Heart of Glass, Hoxton, London (2008 & 2010) The central exhibition of several, as part of the art and music festival Concrete and Glass, a unique event co-directed by Flora Fairbairn showcasing innovative talent in both music and art, backed by Beggars Group. Read more -
Anticipation
24 Apr - 9 Jun 2007 ONE ONE ONE GALLERY, DAVID ROBERTS' ART FOUNDATION 'For those of us who want and need to know what is actually happening and is important on the frontiers of British contemporary art practice, I really believe this show must not be missed' - Meredith Etherington-Smith ANTICIPATION showcases the talents... Read more -
Salon 2007
New British Painting and Works on Paper 8 - 31 Mar 2007 319 Portobello Rd, London A group exhibition of 50 UK-based artists showcasing new and innovative approaches to the medium. Co-curated with Sotiris Kyriacou, in collaboration with Bill Burlington. Read more -
Rachel Kneebone
15 Jul - 15 Aug 2006 Madder Rose Gallery, Clerkenwell, London The inaugural gallery exhibition of new works by then recent Royal College of Art graduate Rachel Kneebone. Working solely in porcelain, Kneebone produces large scale yet delicately crafted figurative scenes drawn from ancient Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and other classical cycles. Hybrid... Read more -
Young Masters
20 Jun - 4 Jul 2005 ART FORTNIGHT LONDON A group exhibition focusing on the use of Old Master iconography in contemporary art, emblematic of a return to painting and drawing on the part of young artists. Read more -
Anna Boggon: Put 'Em Up
19 Nov - 18 Dec 2004 LAURA BARTLETT GALLERY, LONDON A solo exhibition for Anna Boggon that showcased works made between 1994 - 2004 that addressed the nature of perception and its cultural and psychological duality. The nature of perception, what is hidden and revealed, has long been a preoccupation of Boggon's, and this work was... Read more -
Mementoes & Other Curiosities
1 - 30 Jun 2004 Farmiloe Building, London A site-specific group show of 17 artists in a disused Victorian warehouse in St John St, Clerkenwell, as part of London Architecture Biennale and Art Fortnight London. Read more
