This winter we present a solo exhibition by Devon based artist Frances Gynn RWA. Frances' work is informed by environmental issues and humanity’s engagement with nature. Through drawings and paintings her practice reflects growing concerns over the effects of plastics in the ecosystem, and in particular deforestation and its influence on habitat loss and the decline of many precious species.
Process is an important part of her practice, in a way that echoes the characteristics of her subject. Layering oil paints and paint resists, she then rubs away paint with sandpaper, sometimes inviting the public to erase parts of her work as an interactive performance, in order to emphasise ideas of destruction and loss.
Frances Gynn graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Exeter in 2000. She has participated in numerous site-specific events and exhibitions, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and in 2018 and 2019 she was selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition. In 2018 she was awarded a Fellowship at The Bogliasco Foundation, Italy and in 2019 she was elected as a Royal West of England Academy Academician. Her recent Public Erasure projects have focused on drawing and performing an interactive body of work on endangered species.
For this exhibition, Frances held a Public Erasure event around her artwork ‘Hare’ on Saturday 11th November. The event was officially opened by acclaimed writer and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby and covered by BBC Spotlight.
