2003, London
Maryfrances017@gmail.com
Education
City and Guilds of London Art School - Foundation Diploma, 2022/23
Academy of Applied Arts and Architecture in Prague - semestral exchange, 2024/25
The Glasgow School of Art, 2023-2026 - Painting and Printmaking
Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts - 2026
My practice is multi-media, incorporating sculpture, installation, photography, drawing and painting. I borrow from the logics of printmaking, which complicate the understanding of an original or singular piece of work, instead understanding the artistic process as iterative and machinic. I am interested in the movement of data and images online, and the social and psychological dimension of communication – when to speak, when not to speak and whose speech is valued. The dialectic between expression and silence, desire and suppression, gives motion to my work. I use visual languages of fragmentation and alienated body parts to visualise the means by which our desires become tokenized and abstracted into currency, as well as diagrammatic forms to highlight the contrast between emotional experience and the orders or narratives we use to represent it. I contrast the softness of graphite with industrial materials such as concrete and steel in order to visualise the systems which seek to universalise, order, and commodify the most intimate parts of our beings, questioning the tacit idea that art must be vulnerable and expressive. I do not aim to create a new language or system of representation, but assemblages that remain in motion, changing as each new viewer comes to them and the environment they exist in evolves.
City and Guilds of London Foundation Diploma Show, London, May 2023
Drawing on Experience - Renfield Street studios, Glasgow, October 2023
Squeeze - Reid Gallery, Glasgow, February 2024
The Colour of the Mirror - Hidden UMPRUM, Prague, January 2025
Klauzura exhibition, Academy of Applied Arts and Architecture in Prague, January 2025
Two Fold - Strange Field, Glasgow, March 2025
Being Here - Carbone17, Paris. September 2025
Doll Parts - Šmeralova, Prague, private show, August 2025
Pepe Sylvia - Garage Space, Glasgow, October 2025
15 Minutes Off Grid - Solo Show - Lab Gallery, Glasgow, February 2026
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, ‘The Young-Girl and Other Modes of Production’, May 2026