Gabby Laurent & Gem Fletcher in conversation

Sunday 17 May 2026
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Talks Room
Groundfloor, National Hall (G)
National Hall, Olympia
Hammersmith Road
London W14 8UX

 

Gabby Laurent, Cherry Bomb, 2022. Silver Gelatin Print 39.5 x 50 cm 15 1/2 x 19 3/4 in 50 x 60 cm (framed) Edition of 5 plus 1 artist’s proof.

Working across photography and performance, Flowers Gallery brings together works from Falling and her new Wearables series to examine the fragile line between safety and vulnerability, comfort and constraint. From repeated self-portraits mid-fall to handmade garments constructed from household materials, Laurent transforms the domestic into a space of tension, humour, and resistance.

Her work is at once intimate and unsettling, drawing on feminist and performance art histories while asking urgent questions about the body, the home, and the roles we perform within them.

Gabby Laurent, inspired by feminist and performance art history, London-based artist Gabby Laurent’s (1985, UK) practice unites photography and performance, investigating notions of aggression, control, vulnerability, motherhood and domesticity. New work You Used To Be Connected references the umbilical connection, but it also urges the viewer to reconnect with themselves, each other and the land. In a world in turmoil, it makes an urgent call to reconnect.
Cherry Bomb was made while Laurent was pregnant during the Roe v Wade repeal and women’s rights over their bodies had a real sense of urgency.

Gem Fletcher is a writer, consultant and podcaster whose work explores photography, art and contemporary culture and how they shape and inform who we are and how we live. Her work has been published in Foam, Aperture, Dazed, It’s Nice That. Creative Review, 1000 Words and The British Journal of Photography. She has written monograph texts for Rhiannon Adam, Juan Brenner, Maggie Shannon and Flora Hanitijo, amongst others. She also hosts The Messy Truth podcast, a series of candid conversations that unpack the future of visual culture and what it means to be a photographer today. Now in its tenth season, Gem explores reflections on criticism, starting out, mental health, politics and success with guests like Antwuan Sargent, Catherine Opie, Farah Al Qasimi, Carmen Winant, Charlotte Cotton, Quil Lemons, Brea Souders and Laia Abril.

 

Gabby will be sharing her work in Flowers Gallery, booth E02

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