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ART WRITING
Florence is available for art writing commissions for artists, galleries,
arts organisations and publications. If you are interested in commissioning a text for your exhibition or project, or you are an artist wanting writing support, please get in touch.
Recently commissioned texts include:
John O'Carroll, Between Stillness, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
Izaak Brandt, Soft Shell, Serpentine Galleries, London
SLQS, Embodied Ecotones, SLQS Gallery, London
Ruth K. Burke, Of Love: A Labor, Co-Prosperity, Chicago
PUBLICATIONS / EDITORIAL
'Listening With Whales Artistically'
Listening With Whales international research project led by Marie Cozummo, October 2026
'Ecotones: Where the Urban and Rural Embrace'
Editorial feature for the Sherborne Times, October 2025
Conversation with Saphia Abrahamovitch-Venner
for Visual Arts South West (VASW), online editorial, May 2025
'Entrapment & Empowerment: Towards an Interspecies Feminism in Contemporary Performance'
Doctoral Thesis, University of Surrey, May 2025
Interspecies Performance, edited book with Prof. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, published by Performance Research Books, June 2024
'Significant Others: Thinking With Care In Interspecies Performance' Portuguese translation
published by Latin American Journal of Critical Animal Studies,
December 2021
'Significant Others: Thinking With Care In Interspecies Performance'
Conference paper presented at Cosmopolitics 'Animalisms' conference, March 2021
'Becoming-with-Animal: An Ecofeminist Performance Practice' published by the academic journal Performance, Religion & Spirituality Vol 2. Issue 2. in May 2020
'The Empowered Practice of Becoming-with-Animal'
Commissioned for the exhibition Sleeping with A Tiger (2020) at K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Lesvos, Greece, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis
'Becoming-with-Animal: Cultivating A Feminist Understanding of Human-Animal Transformation in Contemporary Performance'
MA Thesis - Shortlisted for faculty thesis prize
TALKS
Talk: 'Curating Beyond the Human'
Spike Island Bristol, Open Sandwich Series
November 2025
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Guest Lecture: 'Towards an Interspecies Feminism in Contemporary Art & Performance'
Interspecies Worldmaking: Art Plants and Animals course
Institute of Art, NTNU, Trondheim Norway
May 2025
Podcast episode: 'Nature, Nonhumans and the Arts'
with Felix Clutson and Edwin Gilson, Technecast, June 2024
Research presentation for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
University of Surrey, February 2024
Research sharing, Cove Park Scotland, December 2023
Near Dwellers, panel discussion with Sarah Le Quang Sang (SLQS)
Street Road Artists Project Space and the Tree Museum, September 2023
Visiting Artist Series, Illinois State University, September 2022
Propositions Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, September 2022
Dialogue in Creative Practice, Techne Student Led Event, May 2022
Regrowth & Resistance, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London, 2021
Cosmopolitics Conference: Animalisms, Brazil, 2021
Interspecies Collaboration, University of Surrey, 2021
Polder Animal Symposium, Netherlands, 2020
Nicole Beutler Projects, Amsterdam 2019
RESIDENCIES
Techne funded research residency, Cove Park, Scotland, December 2023
Techne Funded PhD placement, Cove Park, International Artist Residency, Scotland, 2023
Researcher in residence, Illinois State University, US, 2022
Follow the Land with Grampus Heritage, Cyprus, 2021
Producer Farm, UK, 2020
Onassis Foundation, Athens, 2020