Born in Belfast and based in mainland UK, Susan Francis has exhibited internationally in France, Spain, Poland, Canada and the USA. She has been resident at The Bemis Centre for Contemporary Art in Omaha, USA and the Polish International Sculpture Centre. In addition to private collections, her work is held in the national collection of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and she is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

 

EDUCATION

 

2021 MA with distinction in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College and the University of Winchester funded by an award from the Sarum St Michael Trust

2012 PTLLS Teaching Certificate in Further Education

1989 BA(Hons) Degree in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

June 2022 Insect Odyssey, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury

June 2022 Doublethink, APT Gallery, London

Sep 2021 Connect, Vanner Gallery launch show, Salisbury                                                                                                       Sep 2020 Wiltshire Creative Open, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury                                                                                  

October 2019 Drawn, The Young Gallery, Salisbury

Sep 2019 Let Us Dissent, spudWORKS, Sway, The New Forest

March 2019 Sculpture Open, Royal West Academy, Bristol                                                                                             

March 2019 In The Round, CAS chapel, Andover, Hampshire                                                                                               

Nov 2018 Cicatrix Imprimé Atelier Circulaire, Monreal, Canada                                                                                      

Sep 2018 Cicatrix, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon                                                                                            

June 2018 Altered States, The London Group, St John’s Crypt, Waterloo, London                                                         

Sep 2017 Something Borrowed, Arthouse1, Bermondsey, London                                                                    

Jan 2017 Cicatrix at Springs Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant
October 2016 Art Language Location, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
May 2016 Call & Response, Salisbury International Festival, Salisbury                                                                 

September 2015 The Laboratory of Dissent, Winchester School of Art Gallery                                                          

March 2015 The Plant Project, The Young Gallery, Salisbury                                                                                           

October 2014 Recursive, No Format Gallery, London May 2014 ‘Nocturne’ FAB, Bath
October 2013 Drawing Open, Salisbury Arts Centre Dec 2012 Xmas Bogoff, WW Gallery, London                             

Nov 2012 Sweet Nothings, Flint Microfest, Salisbury                                                                                                          

2012 Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London                                                                                                                                   

October 2012 Sluice 2012, Hamni gallery, London                                                                                                                  

July 2012 Surface ll Crypt gallery, London                                                                                                                                

June 2012 Mis-Information Bath Fringe Festival
June 2012 Modern Madonnas, St Georges Arts, Esher
Nov 2011 The Title Art Prize , Blank Space, Manchester
Sept 2011 Dark, Video installations, CoExist galleries, Southend                                                                                     

March 2011 'Wunderland' tactileBOSCH, Cardiff
Dec 2010 Crash Open, Charlie Dutton gallery, London
Oct 2010 Invasion of Privacy, Notfamousyet, Oxford
Aug 2010 House of Fairytales, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury
Dec 2009 Visual Arts & Business South West, London
Oct 2008 Visual Arts& Business South West, Bristol
Oct 2008 Bristol Contemporary Open, Paintworks, Bristol
March 2008 The Women's art Show, Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke                                                                              

Feb 2008 Novas Contemporary Art Centre, London 

 

 

SOLO/THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

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August 2014 Cicatrix, The Young Gallery, Salisbury
March 2012 Alchemy, Solo show Urmson-Burnett Gallery,

Salisbury Feb 2008 'Walking the Wire' Exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre                                                                            

1995 Solo show Madeley Court Gallery, Telford, Shropshire                                                                                    

1993 'Place Work' Solo show, Arts Council Gallery of Northern Ireland, Belfast                                                      

1993 Solo show, The Art Farm, Nebraska, USA
1990 Solo show South Square Gallery Bradford
1990 Two person show Hanover Gallery, Liverpool 

 

 

SCREENINGS 

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October 2018 ‘ Ladies, How Does it Feel’ Soup, Caraboo Projects, Bristol                                                                                       March 2017  ‘Night Vision’, Metal SouthEnd, International Womens Day, London
August 2016 'Stranger is Typing' Digital Selves Symposium for the Still Point Journal
June 2016 'Night Vision' Bermondsey Art Space, London
July 2014 ‘Please Stand By’ Chisenhale Art Place, London
June 2011 'I want a Leotard' Microgallery, Fire Station Arts centre, Windsor
May 2011 'The Last shall be First (Polly, Wolly, Doodle) Salisbury Cathedral
March 2010 Last Friday Shorts - Screening and talk on 'Night Vision', TAP Gallery, Southend, London 

 

 

RESIDENCIES/COMMISSIONS

 

2017 Case Study film from Do I Know You for Sunderland University                                                                              

2014 Film Commissioned by 5x5x5 for Old Sarum, Salisbury

2013/2014 AA2A residency at Solent University
2014 Cicatrix, Commissioned film for WW1 centenary project                                                                                 

2012 Reside residency
2008 Words of art, Commissioned Artwork for Salisbury District Hospital
1993 Residency at The Bemis Centre for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, USA 1991 Residency at The Polish International Sculpture Centre, Oronsko, Poland 1990 Residency at British Art in Albi, Galerie Impact, Albi, France 

 

AWARDS/GRANTS

 

2018 Sarum St Michael Trust award to fund Masters Degree in Theology, Imagination and Culture

2015 Gane Trust
2015 Grants for the Arts Award Arts Council England

2013 Re:view Bursary, a-n
2008 The Juliet Gomperts Trust Project Award
2008 Grants for the Arts Award – Art Council England

1993 British Council Award
1991 Prince's Trust Award 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2006 - 2015 Winterslow C of E Aided Primary School, Wiltshire 2008 - Norman Court School, Hampshire
2003 - Roger Manwood's Grammar school, Kent
2000 - Northbourne Primary School, Kent                                                                                                                   

1993 - Lectured in Sculpture, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Brighton Technical college                                 

1992 to 1993 - Lectured in Sculpture, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Northbrook College Worthing 

 

 

SELECTED PROJECTS/WORKSHOPS

 

2015 to 2018 - Resident artist for Artlift in Salisbury and Whiteparish GP surgery
2013 to present day - La Folia art programme in schools for young adults/children with disabilities
2011-2015, Art Workshops for Salisbury Museum
2012 - 2017 ongoing art workshops with Morning Star, charity for the homeless
2006-2013 PAWS (Participatory art workshops) resident artist for Wiltshire County Council
2005-2015 Art workshops at Salisbury Arts Centre
2001 Community Sculpture project with Margate School for the Deaf, Kent
1998 Six month art project at St. Pauls Community Centre, Cliftonville, Kent
1996 Festival sculpture workshops, Canterbury, Kent
1995 Exhibition workshops, Solo show at Madeley Court Gallery, Telford
1993 to 1996 Artability artist working in residential care homes, adults with learning difficulties, MIND, hospices

 

 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

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2017 Your Reactions to the Homeless on Film Wiltshire Life by Lesley Bates2013
2015 Digital Selves in Research Symposium, The Still Point Journal https://thestillpointjournal.com/digital-selves/

2014 The Weight of Absence Interviewed by Jane Boyer for 'Recursive' https://projectrecursive.wordpress.com/

2014 Cicatrix catalogue, text by Professor Ewan Clayton http://media.wix.com/ugd/6cd7e1_874a9dc30dd943d4af2ee7f3e6eb991d.pdf