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Jack Florish
Artist
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Email: jflorish@hotmail.com

Insta: @jackflorish

“Artist - I aim for brutal honesty intertwined with irreverence in my work. My work delves into personal experiences—loss, isolation, and anxiety.”

Jack Florish.


I aim for brutal honesty intertwined with irreverence in my work. Creating art allows me to seek acknowledgment absent in my earlier life. It's a means to convey myself, hoping for relatability. If others connect with it, they connect with me, bridging a communication gap I've struggled with. There's a fear of failure and abandonment that fuels this pursuit.

My work delves into personal experiences—loss, isolation, and anxiety—and draws from influences like Japanese photography, video games, performance art, and digital mediums.

Photography, with its stark honesty, lets me manipulate reality, providing a semblance of control amid chaos, oddly comforting in its familiarity.

Technology offers solace, enabling escapism and the creation of relatable experiences and entirely new realities.

My creative process starts with sketching ideas and then materializing them. I dive deep into analysis, deriving inspiration from items like Tamagotchi and video games, blending them into conceptual frameworks.

Jack Florish - Artist

  • Exhibition

    2024 SPECTACLE, BOTH Gallery (London)

    2023 Soft Air, Filet Gallery (London) (Curated by Alexis Harding)

    2021 The Absurd, London (Curated by myself, Abbie Hart and Jenni Bea (FUBAR Collective)) w/ FUBAR Collective

    2020 Coronapocalypse, London (Curated by myself, Abbie Hart and Jenni Bea (FUBAR Collective)) w/ FUBAR Collective

    2019 FUBAR Exhibition, London (Curated by myself, Abbie Hart and Jenni Bea (FUBAR Collective)) w/ FUBAR Collective

    2018 UEL MA Fine Art End of year show, London

    2017 Zines of the world, Truman Brewery, London w/ FUBAR Collective

    2017 Trinity Buoy Wharf Residency, Clipper House Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

    2017 MA Fine Art Exhibition UeL, AVA Gallery, London

    2016 Zines of the world, TIFF Festival, Poland w/ FUBAR Colletive

    2016 PhotoMasters, Truman Brewery, London

    2015 Zines of the world, Doomed Gallery, London w/ FUBAR Collective

    2015 The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London

    2014 Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall, London

    2014 Used Boots And Panties, curated by ‘Julia Maddison’, Cultivate Evolved, London

    2014 Guest Space, Cultivate Evolved, London

    2014 The Cuarated Ego: What Makes a Good Selifie?, National Portrait Gallery, London

    2013 Saatchi Screen, Saatchi Gallery, London

    2012 On The Wall, The Redchurch Gallery, London

    2011 Back In 10 Minutes, Free Range Art & Design Show, The Old Truman Brewery, London

    2010 London Photomonth Photofair, Spitalfields Market, London

  • Awards and Competitions

    2017 Steam Artwork Competion, Shortlisted As Part of FUBAR Collective.

  • Residency

    2017 Trinity Buoy Wharf Residency, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

  • Published Essays

    14. Florish, J. (2018), ‘Gavin Turk’s many personas: Who What When Where How. and Why is he?’, Journal of Arts Writing by Students, 4:1, pp. 61–74, doi: 16. 10.1386/jaws.4.1.61_1

  • Mentioned In Magazines

    The Artist Directory, Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 48, August/ September 2012

    The Artist Directory, Modern Painters, November 2012.

  • Review Of Exhibitions

    Eye blog, 2011. ‘Moving and making, Exploring the photographic trends of 2011’s graduate degree shows’

    Amelia’s Magazine, 2011. ‘Free Range at the Truman Brewery Best of the Rest Photography Graduate Show 2011 Review’

  • Internship

    Volunteership, Degreeart Gallery, January 2013

  • Education

    University Of East London, MA Fine Art, 2016 – 2018

    University of East London, Bachelor of Photography 2012, 1st