Fred Fabre United Kingdom
painting/filmmaking/installation, former journalist, later a BAFTA winner cinematographer with a long career in visual storytelling. After years of working in London — and earlier, covering war zones (‘80s) as a video reporter before running my own press agency (‘90s) — I then moved to Birmingham to step away from conventional industry paths. My focus now is on artist-led, immersive practices.
I work across painting, film, installation, and curation, with a focus on how stories and symbols shape our lives. Love, memory, and belief run through my practice—not as ideals, but as places where intimacy collides with politics, and resilience meets vulnerability.
The Wrong Gallery, my project in a Victorian house in Moseley, reflects this approach. For a few days at a time, the house becomes a single artwork—its architecture, history, and imperfections turned into part of the exhibition. Through immersive shows and literary salons, it opens space for artists, writers, and audiences to share ideas outside institutional frameworks.
Whether through monumental drawings, subversive symbols, or site-based installations, my work seeks to unsettle clichés and reimagine the forces—social, ecological, spiritual—that govern us. I’m less interested in offering answers than in creating encounters that linger, like memory itself.
