Fliss Quick
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About: a bit about me

Fliss Quick (b. 1978, Sheffield, UK) has just landed somewhere new (Wellington, NZ) and hasn't yet worked out which cupboard the mugs go in.

Her work is object-based, observational, anecdotal, situational, and performative. She is interested in people, the everyday, idiosyncrasies, and rules. Humour is important too.

Being, or at least appearing to be, 'normal' has guided how I've shown up in the world. So has its friend wrongness.

When I turn my head to the side and squint to look at my work, they are there, cross-legged, surrounded by all the other bits and bobs that make up my practice.

My work asks what is and what isn't normal. And then, rather than observing these gaps from a distance, I climb into them.

My practice catches my misunderstanding, inadequacy, embarrassment, absurdity and literal-mindedness. And then demands I enact them anyway, following these thoughts to their physical conclusion.

Sometimes I work in character. Sometimes the character is just me.

Selected Exhibitions

2025Everything is Collage, Llanwrtyd and District Heritage and Arts Centre, Wales
2025PAM Group Show, g39, Cardiff, Wales
2023Visions of Motherhood, The Luupe (virtual exhibition)
2021“You are not wonderful just because you are a Mother”, Artist/Mother Podcast (virtual exhibition)
2020At Home, Canterbury, New Zealand
2018Home-Maker, Gallery Shush, Serbia
2018Home-Maker, Canterbury, New Zealand
2018Unperceived Existence (online iteration of Home-Maker)
2017Cartists, Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry, UK
2015For Posterity, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
2014From Chaos to Comprehension, ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2013MAGIC CITY, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA
2013From Chaos to Comprehension, Danske Kunsthåndværkere, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013MADE TO MAKE, Bilston Craft Gallery, UK
201260/40 Starting Point Series, Siobhan Davies Studio, London, UK
2012WOOD, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA
2012Donning Oxford, O3 Gallery, Oxford, UK
2010The Moment of Privacy has Passed, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK

Residencies

2026‘Writing the Self’, Tŷ Newydd, National Writing Centre of Wales
2024‘The Role of Narrative in the Visual Arts’, masterclass with Dr Klaus Speidel, Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, Germany
2017Mothership, Dorset, UK
2015Blueprint for Happiness, Banff Centre, Canada
2014WAA, Penang, Malaysia
2014Random String, Ludic Rooms, Coventry, UK
2010–11Inhabit, Birmingham, UK

Grants and Awards

2026Creative Steps Funding, Arts Council Wales
2025Transformative Funding Bursary, Freelands Foundation and a-n The Artists Information Company
2024Arts International Award, Arts Council Wales
2022Time Space Money Bursary, a-n The Artists Information Company
2015Mary E. Hofstetter Legacy Award for Visual Arts, Banff Centre, Canada

Associate Roles

2021–26Associate Artist, Arts Council Wales
2023Associate Artist, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Curation

2022Exhibitions Committee, Spilt Milk, Edinburgh, UK
2020At Home, Canterbury, New Zealand
2018Home-Maker, Canterbury, New Zealand
2013MAGIC CITY (co-curation), Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA
2012Donning Oxford (co-curation), O3 Gallery, Oxford, UK
2010Table Manners (co-curation), Birmingham School of Jewellery, UK
2008Winding Thoughts Theatre (collaborator), The Lost Gypsy Gallery, Papatowai, New Zealand

Assistant Roles

2025Performer, Les Passeuses (film), David Thorpe, Treignac, France
2015Assistant/Performer, Forest of the Imagination, House of Fairytale (Deborah Curtis), Bath, UK
2009Assistant, Powerplant, Edinburgh Festival, Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, UK
2009Assistant to Anne Bean, Nymphae Gloriosa, Norfolk, UK
2008Assistant, Blast, Blackpool Illuminations, UK (year approximate)
2007Assistant, Blast, Curzon Street, Birmingham, UK
2002Assistant to Anne Bean, Many Hands, Battersea Park, London, UK

Commissioned Writing

2022AxMe Book Review, Feminist Library, London
2014MAstars, Axisweb

Selected Press and Publications

2024Kolaj Mag, World Collage Day Special Edition
2017To the Point: Pin Mechanisms and Brooch Back Design, Daniela Malev
2014Art Jewelry Today: Europe, Catherine Mallette, Schiffer Publishing
2012Specimens from the Dance Laboratory, Marilyn Zapf, Crafts Magazine (Sept/Oct)
2011Madness in the Method exhibition review, Zoe Philips, Findings (Issue 53)

Talks and Papers

2022Home-Maker: Reflections on a Domestic Practice (paper), SECAC, Baltimore, USA
2014Random String Symposium, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
201260/40 Artist Talks, Siobhan Davies Studio, London, UK

Teaching, Mentoring and Coaching

2021–24Visiting Tutor, MA Jewellery and Related Products, School of Jewellery, BCU
2021–Relational Dynamics Coach, working with neurodivergent artists
2022Artist Mentor, Spilt Milk

Other

2019–20Public Arts Panel, Selwyn District Council, New Zealand

Qualifications

2023PGCHE, Falmouth University
2022Relational Dynamics Coaching Accreditation
2011MA Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products, School of Jewellery, BCU
2003BA (Hons) Design, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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Based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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