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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
UPCOMING PROJECTS
2024/25 Drawing the Night In, Touring UK group exhibition
2023 Solo show, Small House Gallery, London
2023 Documentary film on practice for Turkish TV
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
July 2023 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, Dora house, London
July 2023 Cellophane Wrapper, Plastic Pie, Basingstoke
July 2023 Doll, House of Smalls, Chichester
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
Oct 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
Oct 2016 Art Language Location, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
May 2016 Call & Response, Salisbury International Festival, Salisbury
Sep 2015 The Laboratory of Dissent, Winchester School of Art Gallery
March 2015 The Plant Project, The Young Gallery, Salisbury
Oct 2014 Recursive, No Format Gallery, London May 2014 ‘Nocturne’ FAB, Bath
Oct2013 Drawing Open, Salisbury Arts Centre Dec 2012 Xmas Bogoff, WW Gallery, London
Nov 2012 Sweet Nothings, Flint Microfest, Salisbury
2012 Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London Oct 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
2015 NIGHT, Solo Performance, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover, Hampshire Aug 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
Oct 2018 Ladies, How Does it Feel’ Soup, Caraboo Projects, Bristol March 2017 Night Vision, Metal SouthEnd, International Womens Day, London
Aug 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
2013/14 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 - 15 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
1992/93 Lectured in Sculpture, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Northbrook College Worthing
SELECTED ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS/WORKSHOPS
2015/18 Resident artist for Artlift in Salisbury and Whiteparish GP surgery
2013 - 2019 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
1993/96 Artability artist working in residential care homes, adults with learning difficulties, MIND, hospices
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2022 Softcore by Rebecca Orr
2021 Interview Series by Dispensary Gallery
2017 Your Reactions to the Homeless on Film Wiltshire Life by Lesley Bates
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