On the 24th January, between 6 and 8pm, Pictorum Gallery presents a special performance of Alicia Radage's Insomnia Hot Autumn accompanied by drummer Jasper Llewellyn, from the band 'Caroline'.
A Q&A with independent curator Becca Pelly-Fry and artist Florence Peake will follow.
Q&A Performance Collaborators
Florence Peake is a London-based artist who has been making solo and group performance works intertwined with an extensive visual art practice since 1995. Presenting work internationally and across the UK in galleries, theatres and the public realm, Peake is known for an approach which is at once sensual and witty, expressive and rigorous, political and intimate.
Peake’s work has been presented at Southwark Park Galleries (2023), HaywardGallery’s touring British Art Show 9 (2021) Arsenic theatre and Sudpol theatre inSwitzerland (2020), Venice Biennale 2019; CRAC Occitanie, Sè€te, France (2018),London Contemporary Music Festival, UK (2018), Bosse & Baum, London, UK (2019); DeLa Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2018) amongst others.
Jasper Llewellyn is an artist, researcher and facilitator, based inLondon. His practice-as-research is concerned with cross-disciplinary forms of improvised artistic practice and the deployment of these practices as vehicles to explore notions of more-than-human liveliness and affective atmospheres.
Jasper is a founding member, and co-artistic director, of the band Caroline. Signed to Rough Trade Records, Caroline released their self-titled debut album to critical acclaim in February 2022. The album was included on numerous ‘Best of 2022’ lists (Pitchfork, NME, The Quietus).
Becca Pelly-Fry is an independent curator, facilitator and cultural consultant based inFolkestone and working collaboratively with a wide range of artists and arts organisations across the UK. She was Director andCurator of Griffin Gallery (2013-2018) and Head Curator for Elephant West(2018-19), before going freelance as an independent curator and consultant in 2019.
Becca is an Associate Consultant for people make it work, Head of ProfessionalDevelopment for ACAVA Studios, a mentor for Arts Emergency and The LaunchpadCollective, and a member of the British Art Network, Young Professionals in the Arts, and Association of Women in the Arts. Underpinning all of her work, within the cultural sector and elsewhere, is a commitment to collective care, compassion and social justice.