Angela Flowers, Founder of London's Flowers Gallery, Dies at 91

Angela Flowers, the founder of Flowers Gallery in London, passed away. She began her artistic journey in a room at the Artists International Association in Chinatown, where she showcased works by Tom Phillips and Derek Hirst. The gallery grew to several locations in London before establishing itself on Cork Street in 2000. Flowers East opened in Hackney in 1988, and the gallery expanded to the US in 1998 with a location in Los Angeles, later relocating to New York. A Hong Kong branch was inaugurated in 2020. The gallery featured notable artists like Prunella Clough, Nicola Hicks, and Jack Smith, and highlighted large-format photography by Edward Burtynsky and others. In a 2020 interview with the Financial Times, she expressed her desire to disrupt the 1970s British art scene, stating, "All I was interested in was my own idea." Her son, Matthew Flowers, took on the role of managing director in 1989, and throughout her career, she promoted British Modernism, favoring it over contemporary art.