Dream Bodies by Flora Wallace
22nd May - 20th June 2026
Cacao House (1st Floor), 2 Bedford Street, Stroud, GL5 1AY
Opening Hours:
Friday 29th May, 12pm - 4pm
Saturdays in June, 10am - 4pm
and by appointment
Dream Bodies is the debut solo exhibition by Flora Wallace, shaped by a five-year exploration of the unconscious, rooted in the documentation and analysis of dreams alongside the practice of automatism. The work emerges from an ongoing dialogue between dreaming, drawing and painting, where images are not entirely controlled but allowed to surface, shift, and evolve.
In Dream Bodies Wallace considers the body in dreams - fluid, porous, and unbound by fixed identity. In sleep the body can shift between states: water or air, masculine or feminine, thought or flavour. These transformations reflect the indeterminate nature of our dream selves, where boundaries between the human and more-than-human world dissolve.
“Phantoms become feathered angels that dwell in mountains. Precarious egg people teeter on spindle legged chairs. Moon-faced spectres emerge from the trees and Bird beings commune over a hard boiled egg.”
- Dougal Kirkland
Wallace’s installation immerses the viewer into the symbolic language of her dream world through painting, textiles, ceramics, film and sound.
Curated by Patricia Brien and Sacred Thing.
Flora Wallace is an artist working across painting, drawing, ceramics, film, and sound. She uses automatism and dream analysis to explore the relationship between the unconscious and image-making. She explores ecological processes and the materialities of places through her work by transforming seasons and moments in time into inks and pigments and glazes. She is a member of Tump, an artist collective she formed in 2024 with Alex Merry and Milligan Beaumont. She regularly collaborates with musician Cosmo Sheldrake.
Patricia Brien is a UK-based curator, artist and researcher. Her work is focused on ecofeminism, myth and creative practice for ecological and social justice. She is currently a Lecturer in Critical Design Thinking at Bath Spa University.
For enquiries please contact: hey@sacredthing.art
2024
Glazed ceramic
Hand 1: 9 x 2.5 x 20 cm
Hand 2: 9 x 14 x 12 cm
Hand 3: 9 x 21 x 7 cm