Flora Bowden works across drawing, printmaking and sculpture to explore how histories of time are recorded, remembered and reconstructued. She is interested in questions of permanence, instability and the reproduction of the image; and she asks how meaning is forged, destabilised and reimagined in different contexts and moments. Her recent work explores the development of the theory of deep time in 18th Century Scotland, the visual language of it, and how this might exist or be repurposed in contemporary culture.
Education
2015 – present PhD Royal College of Art
2008 – 2009 MArch. (with Distinction), University College London
2002 – 2005 BA (First Class Honours), Middlesex University
Selected Exhibitions
2018 Theories of the Earth, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn
2018 Documents, The Crypt Gallery, London
2017 Daybreak, Safe Houses, London
2016 S:Future, Dyson Gallery, Royal College
of Art
2016 Image/Archive, Royal College of Art
2015 Creekside Open, APT Gallery, selected by
Richard Deacon
2014 V&A
Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2014 Good
Enough is Good Enough, Deptford X Contemporary Art Festival
2014 Line
and Value, Up Down Gallery, Ramsgate, UK, curated by Cedric Christie
2014 Day
Job, Indra and Samia Gallery, London
2014 V&A
Hackney Wick Take Back, Swan Wharf, London
2013 Vitis
VInifera, Shaklewell Lane, London
2013 Big
Deal No. 5, Q Park Cavendish Square, London
2013 Urban
Dialogues, Red Gallery, London, curated by 3FF
2013 Q
Park Chinese Open, Spring Place, London, curated by Bid Deal
2012 100,
Spring Place, London
2010 Falling/Fooling,
Lower Borough Walls Gallery, Fringe Arts, Bath, UK
2010 Bargetopia,
The Drawing Room Gallery, London Festival of Architecture
2009 Curiocities,
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2006 Southwark
Ideas Competition, London Architecture Biennale
2004 Jerwood
Drawing Prize, Touring Exhibition, UK