Flowers Gallery
Flowers Gallery represents more than 50 international artists and artist’s estates, working with a wide range of media. Over the past five decades the gallery has presented over 900 exhibitions across its global locations, also supporting the production of artist’s publications and the presentation of works by gallery artists in art fairs, public galleries, museums and institutions around the world.
The gallery programme includes major annual summer survey shows and renowned recurring exhibitions such as Artist of the Day and Small is Beautiful, which have formed an important high-profile platform for many emerging and under-recognised contemporary artists.
50 YEARS
On February 10, 1970 Angela Flowers (b 1932) opened her first eponymous gallery space in London on Lisle Street, above the Artists International Association (AIA), a cooperative of artists who offered the space to her rent-free in exchange for commission. The gallery stayed there for just over a year and a half, with Tom Phillips, Derek Hirst, Jeff Nuttall, Penelope Slinger, Ian Breakwell, Patrick Hughes, Jeanne Masoero and Nancy Fouts amongst the first artists shown in the space. The initial exhibitions included Postcard Show, for which Angela commissioned original works of art to be made into postcards by artists including Joseph Beuys, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake. Michael White, the theatre impresario, and the financial writer Robert Heller became the first non-executive directors of the gallery in 1971.
