Night Flowers : Damien Frost

“the pictures are seriously raw, stunning, even kamikaze"

— Boy George

Cost

  • Standard FREE
  • Fri 25 Sep 10:00am - 5:00pm
    Sat 26 Sep 10:00am - 4:00pm
    Sun 27 Sep - Mon 28 Sep Closed
    Tue 29 Sep - Fri 2 Oct 10:00am - 5:00pm
    Sat 3 Oct 10:00am - 4:00pm
    Sun 4 Oct Closed
  • Venue

    Watt Space Gallery View map
Night Flowers is a collection of Damien Frost’s iconic and provocative works – and your invitation into the seductive theatricality of queer nightlife, where art, performance, and self-reinvention evocatively collide.

The original and highly acclaimed Night Flower series was shot over a decade in London by the Australian-born, London-based photographer, where Frost captured the charged intimacy of late-night dancefloors and surrounding streets. The dynamic and visceral portraits celebrate a luminous cast of nocturnal figures – costumes and gestures transform bodies into living artworks representing radical and transformative acts of identity.

As part of New Annual and developed through a residency at Watt Space Gallery, newly commissioned portraits of Newcastle’s queer and alternative communities join the Night Flowers family for the very first time, where local identities are reimagined and defiantly declared.

As a celebration of place, performance and revelry, whether you’re a sunrise dancefloor regular or a curious wallflower, you’re bound to relish the Night Flowers’ electrifying lens of self-expression.

Person in theatrical black and white makeup with a red lip and red outfit, wearing white horns on their head
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