
Group exhibition
29th November – 20th December 2025
presenting:
Laura White, Diana Taylor, Fay Nicolson, TC McCormack,
Simon Lewandowski, Ben Fitton and Benedict Drew.
at: Florence Trust Project Space
Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Square, Islington, N1 0HN
Private View: Friday 28 November, 6-8pm
You are invited to join us on at Florence Trust Project Space
The title speaks to a heightened and evenly-suspended receptiveness, where awareness is fluid and free from presumptions or fixity. Originating in psychoanalysis, the term ‘floating attention’ articulates a form of human perception that is contingent, transient and boundless.
The curation deliberately resists the urge to pursue unification through an overarching theme that consolidates diverse practices into a singular field of vision. Rather it is the specificities of each artist’s staying of attentions that inform this exhibition. Once gathered, these works will stimulate the senses and imagination of those who see them, and the great concerns of the present-day world are set to simmer in this heightened cosmos.
The curatorial design features a paratactic structure, which frees the artworks of conjunction or compelling associations, and enables them to stand independently in an open dialogue. In contrast, a floor-based display system is introduced in two of the spaces, to establish a correlative interplay (or doubling-effect) and offer a destabilizing influence.
The artists will present a wide range of practices - painting, sculpture, print, drawing, textile, video and installation – displayed throughout the gallery spaces.
Laura White’s sculptures often emerge from her collaborative process with favored materials, some even seem to belie their appearance. Daina Taylor’s intricate paintings converge and splice various media - including print and textile – to create a unique visual grammar. Alongside a vibrant painting, Fay Nicolson’s series of large silk prints display bright rhythmic patterns. Created under self-Hypnosis, Simon Lewandowski’s selection of drawings blends a rich array of gestural marks and mixed media. TC McCormack’s film explores a type of perceptible gap; between access and intimacy, where the ‘subject’ is neither entirely present nor entirely absent. Ben Fitton’s compelling digital prints employ improvised technology to provide a nuanced exploration of our everyday environment, revealing resonant surfaces and hidden depths. Benedict Drew’s film explores the psychedelic potential of music and the moving image, as an ecstatic response to socio-political anxiety.
Related events:
Workshop: on Thursday 11th December, 5.30pm
An Ekphrasis workshop led by Lu Cunningham and Simon Lewandowski of The Writers' Room residency, exploring writing after/for/as art, in response to the group exhibition: Their Floating Attention.
*Workshop is ticketed; confirm your space through this eventbrite link:
Talk with the artists: on Saturday 13th December, 2-4pm
A selection of the artists will be present, to discuss the work and do a Q&A.
This is an open invite, no pre booking is required, simply turn up on the day.
Florence Trust Project Space
Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Square, Islington, N1 0HN
[ tube: Angel / Highbury & Islington ]
open: Thursday to Saturday - 29th November to to 20th December, 12-6pm
Curated by TC McCormack
Supported by The Florence Trust, Euca Annex and ADMRC research center, Sheffield Hallam University.

For more info, you can find websites included below
Laura White is a London based artist. Her practice focuses on a negotiation with the world of STUFF, interactions with materials and objects, exploring the behaviour and language of materials and individual and collections of objects. Her sculptural practice expands into food, writing, and a materiality website, TENDERFOOT.
Recent exhibitions include: Laura White: Daily Baroque. Phoenix Art Space. Brighton, UK. 20/9/25 – 9/11/25, Earthbound. New Art Gallery Walsall, 15/11/24 - 8/6/25, KNEAD. Laura White and Liza Dieckwisch. Fondazione Pastificio Cerere,Rome, Italy. 7/5/25 -11/6/25, Baroque Sprawl (2024). No 1 Station Approach, Hereford. Commissioned by Meadow Arts and Hereford College of Arts. Launched May 2024. Soft Monuments, Frestonian Gallery, London. 2023, 2022-23 in Rome as the Ampersand Foundation Fellow at the British School at Rome. Exhibitions: Rome, a portrait. Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes 2023, Pallazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. 9/5 - 30/7. 2023. Spazi Aperti, Academy di Romania in Roma, 6 - 20 June, 2023. On the meaning of Gossip, British School at Rome, 31 May – 23 June 2023.
Diana Taylor is based in London, she works across painting, print and textiles, and shifts between traditional and digital media, and explores the impact of the past upon the present - living in an age of the ‘re’.
Taylor was a recipient of the Andrew. W Mellon short-term Fellowship at the Huntington, CA. (2025). Artist in residence at 18th St. Arts Centre, Santa Monica, from September to December 2024. Completed a practice-based PhD in partnership with the William Morris Gallery, London, through Sheffield Hallam University (2023). She did MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2010). Solo shows include: Flotsam and Jetsam, Don’t Look Projects, L.A. In association with SLQS Gallery, London (2025); Borrowed Time, Bobinska Brownlee Gallery, London (2024); A Ghost for Today, William Morris Gallery, London (2022); Phantom Yarns, Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus, (2021) and Cyprus High Commission Gallery, London (2022); Can we Hold on?, CCA, Mallorca (2018-19). Recent group shows include: Decennial, Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus, (2025), A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London; (2024) Stable, Bobinska Brownlee New River (2023-4); A Painting Show, Benjamin Parsons Gallery, Oxford; Montage, Fabrik, Baterswil, Switzerland.
Fay Nicolson (Derby 1984) studied Fine Art at CSM (2006) and the RCA (2011). Working with painting, drawing, print and performance her practice focuses on mediated imagery, tensions between embodiment and disassociation, and the performativity of the documented subject. Solo exhibitions include Dithyramb, Quip and Curiosity, Cambridge (2023); SPA SONGS, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (2019); UN MAKE ME, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin (2016); OVER AND OVER PURE FORM, Grand Union, (2015); PLAY SENSE, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (2015). Nicolson has work in public and private collections in the UK, Europe and USA and is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston University.
Simon Lewandowski (born 1952) studied Fine Art in Newcastle, worked in experimental theatre and Socially Engaged practice for a number of years before being appointed to a teaching and research position in the School of Fine Art of the University of Leeds. Among other things, he trained in hypnotism in 2007. He is a co-director of the Wild Pansy Press, a curatorial and publishing collective. His work in various forms has been shown in Italy, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands and USA. He has directed a number of participatory performances notably in Milan, Valencia, Berlin and with the Hepworth Gallery Wakefield. He is currently Curatorial Director of The Writers’ Room – an experimental venue for intense residential projects at the intersection of Fine Art and Literature.
Ben Fitton is a London-based artist and educator. Much of his artwork has stemmed from the simple pleasure of asking one thing to stand in for another, and the chains of uncertainty set in motion by the fallible representational capacities of crude materials, borrowed images and overcooked language. These playful substitutions and deferrals provide opportunities to poke at the conventions of gallery-based exhibition-making and public address, and are marked by a collapsing of boundaries: between primary and secondary audience, between global and local catastrophe, between structure and image, narrative and effect, intention and lapse.
He has shown extensively in the UK and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Lungley Gallery, The Economist Plaza, redux, IBID.Projects and Balfron Tower, London; Floating I.P., Manchester and Site Gallery, Sheffield. He previously collaborated with Dylan Shipton on a series of temporary public structures in Chatham, Brighton and St Leonards-on-Sea. He occasionally writes - most notably for the journal Art & the Public Sphere -and is Course Leader of BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, London.
Benedict Drew is based in Whitstable and Margate, he works across video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and music. Solo exhibitions include The Trickle-Down Syndrome, Whitechapel Gallery, London; KAPUT, QUAD, Derby; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; and THE ANTI ECSTATIC MACHINES and Heads May Roll, Matt’s Gallery, London. Drew’s work has been exhibited internationally including at Adelaide Festival, Australia; Lofoten International Arts Festival, Norway, Hayward Touring exhibitions, British Art Show 8 and Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. He has been commissioned by Art on the Underground, London and Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, and his work is included in important collections, including the Arts Council. Drew has performed in improvising ensembles, programmed concerts and club nights, and been a producer at the cultural charity London Musicians Collective. Drew often collaborates with other artists and musicians, and has released records on Mana Records and Kaleidoscope. He launched his own label; Thanet Tape Centre in 2020, and regularly makes work for radio. Benedict is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.
TC McCormack makes public exhibitions that navigate the complex conditions of encounter and display. He works in the fields of interdisciplinary art and curatorial practice, with a focus on moving image and sculptural space. Central to his curatorial research is an interest in agile and commutable forms of address. Based in London, TC founded EUCA Annex (in 2023) a space for public exhibitions and curatorial-led research. Recent projects include: Base Notes and Place Holders, group exhibition at Site Gallery, Sheffield and at The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2024), Proximity & Connection, exhibition & screening series at The Florence Trust Space, London (2024), Now Then, a screening program for Imagespassages Festival, Annecy, France (2023), The Immense Ventriloquism, exhibition at nationalmuseum, Berlin (2020) and As Much About Forgetting, curated a group exhibition & symposium at Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark (2017). McCormack is a researcher & academic at Sheffield Hallam University (UK).

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