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Susan Francis

I am a Northern Irish born visual artist, now based in the South West and mainly working within the area of sculpture/installation and now film. I am returning to exhibiting after a break since 1996 to have my four children. Experience previous to that includes exhibitions and residencies both nationally and internationally, including Poland, the US, France and Spain etc.  

www.susanfrancis.com

Bare Bones

By: Susan Francis
A Grants for the Arts funded period of research and development. Time, space and funding to unravel years of experience raising a large family, to lay out the dissected pieces of my past working Read on…

Susan Francis, 'Wing', mixed, 2007. Old projector screen, reworked with wire and varnish

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'Susan Francis'. Baby quilt used by Helen for her children and her mother for her.

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Susan Francis, 'Waiting For Approval', Baking parchment, varnish, cotton stitch, September 2008.

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Susan Francis, 'Night Wing (Detail)', Old roller chalk board, wire, 2008.

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Susan Francis, 'Butterflies, Blinds and Sunday Afternoons', Beef gelatine, tea, wire, 2008. Butterflies of beef gelatine, made in memory of Sunday teas as a child with relatives, smoke filled rooms, faded blinds and the dreaded gelatine on the cold meat.

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Susan Francis, 'Early morning with Erin', November 2008.

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Susan Francis , ''I'm here...'', photograph, December 2008.

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Susan Francis, 'Night oil', Olive oil and paper. Experiments with the effects of oil on written text on paper

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Susan Francis, 'Untitled', Used cleansing pads, wax, light. cleansing pads of cotton wool, collected from removing make up at bed time, dipped in wax.

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'Getting a helping hand'.

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Susan Francis, 'Night Posy', Mixed media, March 2009. Posy of roses made from cotton wool pads used to remove grime and makeup at night dipped in wax on cushion made from old pillow

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Susan Francis, 'Night Posy', Mixed media, March 2009.

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Susan Francis, 'I found her just outside the kitchen door'.

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Susan Francis, 'Be sure your sin will find you out', stained duvet, text.

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Susan Francis. Stains from duvets edged in the text from a romantic novel, part of proposed installation

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Susan Francis, July 2009. Night drawings with olive oil.

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Susan Francis, 'There's Nothing New Under the Sun'. Rubber backed quilted mattress protectors, household paint, latex, applied in layers and peeled back

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Susan Francis. The beginnings of a piece which might be called - 'Remembering Mrs McLean and her daily vigil' or words to that effect. Wood stripped from door frames, household paint, fabric, cotton wool pads impregnated with make up, wax.

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Susan Francis, ''Clever cow' '. Beef gelatine butterflies, sewing box, latex, household paint etc.

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'Geneva 2009'.

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Susan Francis.

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Susan Francis, 'Clever Cow!'. Found object lined with text, latex, household paint, containing beef gelatine butterflies

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Susan Francis.

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'An instance of little or no consequence'.

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Choice blogs

Rosalind Davis on Susan Francis Read on…

Susan Francis.

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Choice blogs - Melanie Stidolph selects Susan Francis

I’ve chosen Susan Francis’ blog ‘Flesh on the Bones of the Belfast Child’. The title grabbed me immediately, standing out as something poetic but gritty.  It see Read on…

Day 24 in last years play mobil advent calender

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Choice blogs archive 2011

December 2011, Andrew Bryant selects Jeniffer Picken

'Poly' means multi, or multiple, and it is used as a prefix, attached to many other words, designating them thus. The Read on…

Susan Francis.

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Flesh on the Bones of the Belfast Child

By: Susan Francis

Dipping my toe in the blogging pool again

 

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Susan Francis, 'Little Man'. Pram blanket, wax, cotton thread

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Susan Francis, 'Little Man (detail)'.

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Susan Francis, 'Only say the word'.

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Susan Francis. Rose created from the stains from bedding, layered together

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'Vanitas'.

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Oops - another image that doesn't show up very well!

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'His Parents Bed', Digitally manipulated photograph. Stains from bedding, photographed, compiled and digitally manipulated

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'I set my cassette recorder to record and left the room'. Text created in anaglypta

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work in progress, latex and household emulsion

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'Susan Francis'. 'There's nothing new under the sun'  Quilted mattress protectors, household emulsion, resin etc

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'Bedtime Stories'.

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Don't try to do this at home

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Day 24 in last years play mobil advent calender

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Sons' 14th birthday party with sky lantern

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Susan Francis, 'The ominous shoe lasts'. From Susan Francis' blog 'Flesh on the bones of the Belfast child'.

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Susan Francis.

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'the culprit, Otis'.

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'Susan Francis'. an early work

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Top ten Artists talking blogs

Here we have unveiled our list of the top ten Artists talking blogs. Read on…

Susan Francis.

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Where the education takes place

By: Sarah Rowles
Conversation as an access point to contemporary art. Read on…

Susan Francis, 'The ominous shoe lasts'. From Susan Francis' blog 'Flesh on the bones of the Belfast child'.

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