Welcome to FLOS
A Glasgow-based organisation, promoting and connecting women and non-binary people in the arts through workshops, exhibitions and community building events.
Upcoming Events
Coalescence
In collaboration with Phlox
Saturday 5th October
Mokusla
EP Launch @ The Rum Shack
Tuesday 22nd October
About Us
Flos Collective is dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive platform for women and non-binary individuals in the arts. Our mission is to foster creativity and collaboration through various initiatives and events.
Our Story
Founded in December 2022, flos collective emerged from a passionate commitment to provide financially accessible opportunities for women and non-binary artists in Glasgow. Since our inception, we have collaborated with over 150 talented artists, creating a vibrant and inclusive platform that celebrates diversity and creativity. Our events, randing from exhibitions to DJ nights and workshops, have engaged nearly 800 audience members, fostering a supportive and dynamic arts community. At flos collective, we believe in the transformative power of the arts to inspire, empower and bring about social change, and we are dedicated to continuing this mission as we grow and expand our reach.
The Collective
Kaiya Bartholomew
Kaiya Bartholomew (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, with a practice that spans the theatrical and visual arts. Kaiya’s visual arts practice utislises found and collected images and personal photography to create multi-layered and charismatic compositions. Her performance draws on theatrical trope, movement, costume and verbatim practices to tell stories that illuminate and elivate the mundane and celebrate humor and tenderness wherever it can be found. Kaiya has trained in traditional theatre and clowning and has a degree in Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Short+Sweet Festival Sydney, Berlin Peace Festival and filmed on location across Europe with Sabbatical Production Company. She has undertaken placements with Frank. Theatre Adelaide and TSODU London and developed international collaborative work for COP26 climate conference. She is the co-recipient of the Avrom Greenbaum Players Award for Direction and continues to create work with long term collaborators in London and Vienna. Kaiya is one half of London/Glasgow artistic duo Paper&Clay and has collaborated with flos collective, Space Generators and The Steam Ship Project Space to bring community exhibitions to life.
Gill Higgins (Curlew)
Curlew (Gill Higgins, she/her) is a celtic alt-folk multi instrumentalist. She incorporates acoustic string, wind and percussive instruments, field recordings, synthesizers and loop pedals. She is interested in the interaction of nature and machine and the way that music can unite strangers. Curlew supported The Twilight Sad at Glasgow’s The Old Fruit Market (sold out), and has joined Honeyblood (sold out) and Carla J. Easton on tour. She has had soundscapes exhibited in Glasgow Botanic Gardens’ Kibble Palace as part of Glasgow Science Festival ‘24, and has upcoming performances a this years Edinburgh Festival. “...it is a nigh on silent packed audience that is hooked as she skilfully and beautifully blends layers of vocal and music through use of loop pedals. Switching between harmonium and keyboard, her set is a bewitching one...” Geoff Shaw, Resound In her session work and as a band member, Curlew has written, arranged, performed, toured and recorded vocals, harmonium, synth and piano with the likes of A. Wesley Chung (LP records), Broken Chanter (Olive Grove Records/Last Night in Glasgow), Carla J. Easton (Olive Grove Records), Elisabeth Elektra (alongside Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, and Johnny Scott of Chvrches), Honeyblood (FatCat Records/Marathon), Man of the Minch (The Bothy Society/Olive Grove Records), Paix, Ruby Gaines (IceblinkLuck), Siobhan Wilson (Suffering Fools Records), Blochestra, Something Broken and Skinny Dipper (Olive Grove Records). Gill writes harmonies and harmonium parts and performs with folk band Fidra, and her songwriting and musical directing in her folk-pop band CLR theory is met with critical acclaim. Their album WAVES was launched to a sold out Celtic Connections crowd, they have performed live on BBC Scotland Nan Gadheal and Afternoon Shows, they have sold out all of their headline shows to date and had festival appearances at The Reeling and Under Canvas Festivals. "Beautiful and evocative" BBC Scotland Record of Note, Roddy Hart
Zoe Kravvariti
Zoe Kravvariti is an artist from Greece, currently based in Glasgow. Her practice is born through a need to be vulnerable. Understanding emotions and figuring out ways of communicating them has been a recurring aspect in her work. Femininity and its burdens on the female body has also been a theme that she finds herself constantly going back to. Her work relies on experimentation and combination of media, as she wishes to explore a variety of mediums and ways of making. Her practice through the years has focused more on video performance, drawing, poetry, handwritten text and most importantly the use of her own body. Her intention is to create work which is interactive and acts as a safe space where the hidden, unspoken and forbidden emotions find a place to call home
Natasha Dunk
Natasha Dunk (she/her) is a Glasgow based artist working across various mediums including: video, textiles, sculpture, painting, installation, photography, drawing and audio. With a background in both visual arts and literature, Natasha's practice is influenced by social science and the impacts of social structures and tradition on wider society and the environment. Her work seeks to explore these ideas through storytelling and performance, often bringing the Scottish landscape into her work. Natasha has exhibited in various cities across the UK and has participated in group shows with Visual Arts Scotland, Exit Glasgow and Paper&Clay as well as having her first solo show at SaltSpace in 2022.
Mélissa Tron-Nguyen
Mélissa Tron-Nguyen (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist using the act of creation to explore the mind. Working with different media such as writing, movement, pottery, and painting, they explore the use of art in collective liberation. Paintings explore surrealist landscapes ranging from destruction to radical optimism, and dream. Lately a focus of their work has been connecting with the land and nature through a grounding relationship with clay and movement, in hope to create offerings to nature itself.
Thembi (aka Tekhole)
Thembi (aka Tekhole) is a multi-genre DJ and producer, primarily gigging within Glasgow’s queer electronic scene. Her eclectic style is greatly influenced by her Southern African roots (Zimbabwean, Malawian and South African) drawing inspiration from the powerful basslines of Gqom and percussive tribal sound. Firmly rooted in drums and bass, her soundscapes include a mixture of electro, techno, breaks and UK Funky. Through her resident show ~ Kutamba ~ on Clyde Built Radio, Thembi uses music to explore feelings of home, sonic kinship and collective consciousness. Her dynamic yet carefully curated mixes are designed to induce feelings of togetherness, unity and affinity. For her, this exploration of dance music has become an audial love letter to heritage and history. When words fail to describe the complex connections between one’s self and the world, the magic of music speaks.
Alexandra Beteeva
Alexandra Beteeva (b. 1999, Moscow) is based in Glasgow and received her BA in Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art in 2022. Interested in post-Soviet spaces that are loving and familiar, a process of presenting history in the form of personal and collective memory, she asks what it means to be homesick for a home one never had. Motivated by themes of immersion through pattern, the Caucasus, with her family’s Ukrainian and Ossetian roots, becomes an interesting space to explore. Stuck between history, place and time, she crystallises the collective experience of the past. Alexandra was selected for the RSA New Contemporaries award, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and is a recipient of the Euan Stewart Memorial Prize for Printmaking.
Lou Rowland
Lou Rowland is an Irish artist and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her practice is vast and interdisciplinary across illustration, printmaking and music. Lou is an illustrator, previously founding Wild Press, an artist - led, open access Risograph studio in Glasgow and creates music as mokusla. Inspired by the Gaelic Mo Chuisle (my darling), the Glasgow-based singer and producer invites you into her ethereal and haunting world, blending ambient dream-pop, electronic and traditional folk. mokusla's debut EP you don't know what you're missing released in October 2022, gained significant radio airplay. In 2023 mokusla was one of four artists awarded the Hen Hoose x PRS mentorship working with Tamara Schlesinger and Susan Bear of the artist/producer collective. 2023 also saw mokusla perform with Sofar Sounds, Flos Collective at the Govanhill International Festival and open for the acclaimed MALKA on the Glasgow leg of her tour. mokusla has since been honing her immersive live performances, opening for artists such as the Lemoncello, Alas de Liona as well as joining the lineups of First Footing & Endless Summer showcases. mokusla has also produced and hosted the radio show 'Síscéal' with artist Kerry Boyd for Glasgow's Radio Buena Vida that explores ambient, folk & traditional music and mythology. Supported by Help Musicians, mokusla returns in 2024 with her second project ‘lovely people here, but it’s just not the same’, exploring the ebb and flow of long distance friendships. The 4-track EP is a celebration of true friendship, written at a time of feeling lost, craving old connections and a deep sense of nostalgia. Its first single ‘ghost’ released Aug 14, became BBC Radio 6 Introducing Track of the Week and gained airplay across BBC Radio 6 New Music Fix, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal & BBC Ulster. mokusla’s second single ‘the metal man’ releases on September 18th followed by ‘lovely people here, but it’s just not the same’ on October 23rd. louiserowland.com mokusla.com
Gaïa
Gaïa is a young dynamic vocalist hailing from France who has quickly cemented herself in the Glasgow new-jazz scene, blending rnb and neo-soul. Having been deeply influenced by black music from an early age, her connection to her music is deeply explorative and emotive, connected to her identity and experiences. Her music tells a deeply personal story, influenced by the people around her and has molded to represent her breadth of life leading to powerful, soul-stirring performances. She made her start in Glasgow’s vibrant grassroots jazz scene, listening, learning and honing her craft, eventually making a name for herself through jam sessions showcasing her soulful voice and improvisational prowess. This continued to feed her collaborative approach to music, leading to her involvement in various jazz-fusion projects including GABO (Glasgow African Balafon Orchestra), Modernistic, Glitch41, The Rebecca Vasmant Ensemble and Tom & The Brassholes to name a few. In 2023, her talent was recognised with a nomination for the Scottish Jazz ‘Rising Star’ Award, a testament to her growing presence in the scene. This summer, she had the privilege to take the stage at iconic ‘We Out Here’ jazz festival curated by Gilles Peterson, alongside band leader Rebecca Vasmant and is set to feature on her next album. Her work within the independent music scene is an important facet of her practice being able to nurture and build grassroot scenes across different genres and practices. Since 2022, Gaïa has been the head-booker at Nice N Sleazy, an iconic independent venue in the city center of Glasgow. She programs across a multitude of genres, mainly working with unsigned acts, independent record label and grass-roots promoters both within and outwith the Glasgow scene. Through Nice N Sleazy she runs a series of successful nights, Neo-Sessions Vol. 1-4, aimed at fostering a vibrant community of musicians, spoken-word artists and singers to showcase their skills and collaborate.
Kate Bradley
Kate Bradley (they/them) is a performance artist from Gateshead, now based in Glasgow. Their practice primarily engages with writing and sound art, ranging from a commercial gig practice as a poet and songwriter, to an experimental approach to performance text and sonic art. Their work tends to be autobiographical and site-specific, delving into people and their places. Thematically they revolve around: queer and regional identities, finding home, and the little stories of little lives. In 2024, they performed “A Roman Skyline,” at the CCA, exploring a diasporic relationship to ‘home’ through gig-performance hybrid work. Bradley also created “in an upstairs room” at the Maryhill Community Central Halls, reflecting on their childhood in the Methodist Church. Their debut single “From Glasgow With Love,” was released in September, and more is soon to follow. See more of their portfolio at https://www.katebradley.uk/, and stay updated on socials by following @createbradley.
Opportunities
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Events
Infusion: flos collective's Infusion events, launched in late 2023, feature top headline DJs and emerging Open Deck talents. These vibrant late-night events connect diverse audiences and showcase Glasgow's dynamic music scene.
Art + Music Showcases: We regularly run open calls for events showcasing the work of women and non-binary artists and musicians in the UK. All of our opportunities are free to apply for! Keep an eye out for upcoming events on our website and socials, or sign up to our mailing list to be kept in the loop!
Community Building Events: At flos collective we run a range of community-building events, from our Open Mic and Mingle nights, to our outdoor events in collaboration with The Alba Cross. These are a great chance to meet new people and join our community!
Flos Productions
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Testimonials
'A beautifully inclusive, multimedia event with a hugely engaging atmosphere' - Laura Wilkie, Musician
'The collective re-sparked my passion for music and collaboration.' - Lisa Meech, Musician / Facilitator
'The evening was empowering, incredibly inspiring and engaging' - Deborah Maité, Filmmaker
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