Night Flowers : Damien Frost
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. Soak up the brilliance with a free glass of bubbles on arrival at Watt Space Gallery.
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.
ACCESSIBILITY
Watt Space Gallery is wheelchair accessible.
ARTIST BIO
@nightflowersbook @thedamienfrost
Damien Frost is an Australian-born, London-based photographer whose work explores identity, transformation and the aesthetics of subculture. Working behind the scenes in London’s theatre world by day, Frost turns his lens at night to the theatricality of the city’s queer clubs and alternative nightlife. His photographs capture fleeting moments of beauty, self-expression and performance among drag artists, goths, fetishists, cabaret performers and club kids, transforming ephemeral encounters into enduring visual statements.
Operating at the intersection of documentary and fine art photography, Frost’s practice examines visibility, resilience and beauty within communities that exist beyond the mainstream. His work has been exhibited at The Lock-Up Newcastle, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Museum of London and the V&A, and featured in The Guardian, Vice, Dazed & Confused and Hunger Magazine. His book Night Flowers was published by Merrell in 2016.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Presented at Watt Space Gallery by the University Galleries for New Annual. This project is supported by The Lock Up's Artist in Residence Program.
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.
ACCESSIBILITY
Watt Space Gallery is wheelchair accessible.
ARTIST BIO
@nightflowersbook @thedamienfrost
Damien Frost is an Australian-born, London-based photographer whose work explores identity, transformation and the aesthetics of subculture. Working behind the scenes in London’s theatre world by day, Frost turns his lens at night to the theatricality of the city’s queer clubs and alternative nightlife. His photographs capture fleeting moments of beauty, self-expression and performance among drag artists, goths, fetishists, cabaret performers and club kids, transforming ephemeral encounters into enduring visual statements.
Operating at the intersection of documentary and fine art photography, Frost’s practice examines visibility, resilience and beauty within communities that exist beyond the mainstream. His work has been exhibited at The Lock-Up Newcastle, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Museum of London and the V&A, and featured in The Guardian, Vice, Dazed & Confused and Hunger Magazine. His book Night Flowers was published by Merrell in 2016.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Presented at Watt Space Gallery by the University Galleries for New Annual. This project is supported by The Lock Up's Artist in Residence Program.