Angela Flowers, considered one of London’s most influential Fashionable and up to date artwork sellers, has died aged 90. Her dying was confirmed by her son Matthew Flowers on social media.
Flowers championed artists equivalent to Tom Phillips, Penny Slinger and David Hockney throughout a profession spanning greater than 50 years. Right this moment, Flowers Gallery has a steady of fifty artists and operates throughout two websites in London (Cork Avenue, in Mayfair, and Kingsland Highway, in Shoreditch).
After working as a cinema usher within the Fifties, Flowers got down to open a business artwork house that felt much less intimidating. “Many individuals have been scared to enter galleries at the moment as a result of they have been so snooty. I wished to open a pleasant gallery and assist youthful artists,” she instructed The Sunday Occasions in 2013. Her first gallery opened in Lisle Avenue, Soho, in 1970, launching with an exhibition of works by the painter Patrick Hughes.
Angela Flowers surrounded by her gallery artists, 1970 Adrian Flowers, courtesy of Flowers Gallery
The gallery moved in later years to different London places at Portland Mews and Tottenham Mews (the Cork Avenue house opened in 2000). In 1988, Flowers Gallery added an East Finish venue method earlier than the artwork world flocked to that modern a part of the capital, launching at Richmond Highway in Hackney. The inaugural exhibition, Up to date Portraits, featured works by Lucian Freud, Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Auerbach. One other Flowers gallery opened in Hong Kong in 2020.
Flowers’s philosophy shone by within the Sunday Occasions interview. “It’s about serving to the artists obtain their targets and holding their arms the entire method by. The thought was at all times to determine one thing that championed younger artists; they work onerous and reside lonely lives,” she mentioned.
Angela Mary Holland, born Croydon 19 December 1932; married 1952 Adrian Flowers (three sons, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1973), 2003 Robert Heller (died 2012; one daughter); died 11 August 2023.
