FLORENCE
FITZGERALD
-ALLSOPP
Curator, Writer, Producer
Contemporary Art & Performance
Dr Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp is a UK-based curator, writer and producer. She has curated and produced projects across visual arts and performance for cultural organisations including Spike Island, Bristol; Hauser & Wirth Somerset; SLQS Gallery, London; Cove Park, Scotland; DAS, Amsterdam; CCA, Glasgow; Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam; and In Between Time, Bristol.
Florence's Techne-funded doctoral research (2020-2025) considered the ethics of interspecies relations in contemporary art and performance from an intersectional perspective. Her curatorial approach aims to facilitate more ethical encounters with other species, centring inclusion, and embracing performance methods to encourage alternative modes of attention to the nonhuman world. As the recipient of the Spike Island and Hauser and Wirth Engagement Fellowship for South West-based Curators 2025-2026, Florence curated the year-long engagement programme Ecotones: Where the Urban & Rural Embrace. In 2025 she was awarded a grant by the Culture & Animals Foundation, New York, to curate the programme Interspecies Entanglements for SLQS London.ng
Florence's writing has been commissioned by artists and galleries internationally, including SLQS Gallery, London; Co-Prosperity, Chicago; Handmark, Australia; and K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Greece. Her book Interspecies Performance, co-edited with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, was published in 2024 by Performance Research Books.
SERVICES
As an independent curator, writer, and producer, Florence offers freelance
services to arts organisations, galleries, and artists. She is available for curatorial projects, writing commissions, collaborations, mentoring, project development and delivery. She also offers freelance writing support services to artists, including exhibition texts and artist statements.
As co-curator for Art & People Florence is available for arts advisory and curation services for private and commercial clients in collaboration with Claudia Kennaugh. Recent projects include Fowlescombe Farm luxury rural retreat, The Millbrook Inn destination pub and restaurant in South Devon, and various private homes across London.
"It’s been so brilliant to experience your tenacity, diligence, warmth and smiles. To watch you work, to work alongside you, to note your care and consideration for the artists, speakers, stewards and volunteers to whom you came into contact throughout the crazy run up and intense delivery."
Helen Cole, Artistic Director & Co-CEO, In Between Time
