Fred Fabre West Midlands, United Kingdom
am an artist based in Birmingham, working across installation, painting, and conceptual practices. Alongside my studio practice, I operate under the conceptual project name The Wrong Gallery, a private residential studio and personal research project in Moseley that functions strictly outside conventional commercial models to focus entirely on non-public experimentation.
I collaborate with emerging and established creators through private residential archive studies that privilege process, risk, and alternative methods of documentation. Extending this ethos, I initiated The Flank, a seasonal, weather-dependent personal study project that documents transient, open-format visual configurations within a domestic garden environment.
The Flank removes institutional barriers by offering a strictly non-commercial, non-transactional private platform for collaborative creative development and direct artistic exchange. My approach centres on creating informal conditions for creative dialogue rather than institutional control, foregrounding individual autonomy and private, non-public studio presence. Through both The Wrong Gallery and The Flank, I am interested in how domestic creative environments can function as evolving artistic gestures rather than structured public spaces.
Projects and exhibitions
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A Sacred Theatre18/06/2026 — ongoing A Sacred Theatre , not for everyone , enter at your own risk |
The Wrong Gallery, Birmingham | Details |
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Disapearing Politely19/02/2026 — 19/03/2026 Disappearing Politely examines how disappearance is organised without violence, through civility, recognition, and consent. The exhibition unfolds as an immersive progression in which presence is managed, sustained, and quietly undone. This exhibition operates without a list of artists. Designed as an emotionally immersive environment,... [Read more] |
The Wrong Gallery, Birmingham | Details |
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Parler l' Amour01/10/2025 — 31/10/2025 Through a range of visual and sensory forms, the exhibition e x p l o r e s l o v e n o t a s a sentimental ideal, but as a site of projection, rupture, and resistance - List of contributing artists Old Bort, Rachel H e n a g h a n , S a r a h L e i g h , Stephanie Stump, Fred Fabre. |
Tghe Wrong Gallery, Birmingham | Details |