Florence Sweeney

The Original Art School Mullet. Mum in art school in 1981 and me in Phillippe Starck’s toilet at a Victoria Miro gallery Venice opening in 2019 #artschoolmullet

‘Rule of Thumb’ opens this Friday 15 May, 6-9pm, at SET Lewisham. Co-curated by the four participating artists, working across painting, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition examines how power is naturalised through physical presence. Taking its title from the idiom “rule of thumb” - a phrase denoting approximate measurement famously, if controversially, historically linked to a legal loophole for domestic violence - the works explore how authority is mapped onto the body within domestic and institutional spheres. 📎 Learn more via link in bio Details Public opening event: Friday 15 May, 6-9pm Dates: 14-18 May Weekend hours: Saturday & Sunday, 12-5pm Weekday hours: Thursday, Friday & Monday (By appointment) Location: SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, SE13 7RZ Admission: Free The exhibition is also viewable by appointment on weekdays. Please contact: [email protected] Contributing artists: @emiliaauersperg Jiyoung Pyo @phoebe.randall @florencesweeney This exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme, which offers early-career and underrepresented artists with studio space, project spaces and opportunities to independently curate public-facing exhibitions, workshops, and events. Poster design by @phoebe.randall

Washing new work in progress

I haven’t had the heart to post on IG as we’re watching horrors unfold in real time. I can’t be bothered to give you my 2025 wrapped showing off small plates and fits from Vinted. But you do you. My head and my heart are in different places but I think soon they will come together. Because we all want to make a difference in the end, right?

7am, 37 x 25 x 5cm, 2025, LCD Screen, Walnut
5min film shot on minidv tape 


Chamber, 25 x 23 x 12.5cm 2025, Fabric, Flock, Walnut 

Both pieces complete each other as a shoebox. 📷 @gray_carmen

🧭 KM 0 offers space to bring studio processes into dialogue — here we focus on the work of in-house artist Florence Sweeney. Florence engages with personal history through acts of care, intimacy and exposure. In Chamber (2025), a soft, anatomically rendered heart rests within a hand-made wooden case, evoking both protection and containment. The accompanying video work 7AM (2025) shows the artist holding and gently caressing a small, red, glittering fabric heart — a family heirloom — filmed in a quiet, domestic moment. The two works physically interlock, fitting together like a shoebox, suggesting the closeness of memory, body and object. 1. Portraits by Carmen Gray 2. Epiphanies – Chamber & 7AM, 2025 — fabric, flock, American walnut, LCD screen 3. Side view of Epiphanies – Chamber & 7AM 4. Video of artist combining works into a shoebox 5. Photo by Carmen Gray

murmur #35mm #studio #wip

Bedlam American Black Walnut, plastic, acorn 76x46x6cm

Tomorrow is the day for LAS - by artists, for artists 💚 @londonartservices 4 April 2025 LAS Gallery, 3 Creekside, London SE8 4SA 6pm – 1am A new space, a new platform, a new community. We are launching LAS with our inaugural exhibition, LAS Begins—a group show featuring 47 artists who we have previously worked with. More than just an exhibition, this marks the beginning of a space committed to artistic agency, transparency, and alternative structures for creative production. LAS is not a traditional gallery. It is an organisation for artists, thinkers, and makers to come together, to carve out new ways of working, and to reclaim space on their own terms. Opening Night Schedule Exhibition: 7pm – 10pm LAS DJs & Afterparty: 10pm – 1am Exhibition Dates: 4 – 25 April 2025 Open Wednesday – Sunday, by appointment On Show: Luca Bosani, James Capper, Sebastain Chaumerton, Léa Collet, Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark, Ollie Dook, Jack Evans, Kaye Fahey, Liam Fallon, Charlie Ford, Elliot Fox, Billy Fraser, Roxman Gatt, Jane Hayes Greenwood, Carmen Grey, Andrew Pierre Hart, Melloney Harvey, Karimah Hassan, Bobby Hefferman, Serena Huang, Norman Hyams, Natalia Janula, Amanda Kyritsopoulou, Ted Le Swer, Ekaterina Luzgina, Vincent Matuschka, Rosie McGinn, Mike McShane, Jan Nixon, Oisín O’Brien, Hazel O’Sullivan, Harrison Pearce, Jesse Pollock, Fabrizio Previti, Tom Ribot, Yasmine Robinson, Juan Manuel Salas, Amba Sayal-Bennett, Yuli Serfaty, Florence Sweeney, Gianna T., Xiuching Tsay, Mitch Vowles, Corey Whyte, Grace Woodcock, Anna Woodward, Rafał Zajko. Drinks | Community | No RSVP required Special thanks to Giulia Moliarov for the poster design @giuliamoliarov

Horny shots at the Capitolini Museum in Rome 2024 developed in the Colour Darkrooms 1. Hecules strangling a snake 2. Torso 3. Artemis of Ephesus #35mm #colourdarkroomprinting #capitoline #rome

📍close 📍up 📍 dress for the job you want 35mm prints blown up via photocopier

Human Resources Photocopies, pins, folder 2025