Frances Blythe

Frances Blythe was born in London in 1952 and migrated to Australia in 1994, after a career as a senior administrator at The Royal College of Surgeons of England. She now lives in South Fremantle, Western Australia, and has a Master of Arts (Visual Arts) from Curtin University.

I am interested in memory and our relationship to time, and how our perceptions of everyday things - transformed by our thoughts into momentarily strange and unrecognisable sights - can lead us into different places, different times. The material of our everyday environment, whether it is from a landscape or a domestic space, can be full of strangeness and surprise. Things can suddenly be seen as if for the first time and then associations and memories attach themselves and complexity multiplies. I am particularly interested in how the language of paint can be used to lead the viewer into the open possibilities of a painting.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2004 Master of Arts (Visual Arts), Curtin University
2002 BA (Art) (Hons), Curtin University
2000 BA (Art), Curtin University
1975 BA (English) (Hons), University College London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Natural Connections, Perth Galleries
2008 Eclipse, Perth Galleries
2006 Overlooked, Mundaring Arts Centre
2005 Underfoot, Breadbox Gallery, Northbridge
2003 Lacunae, The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Get SmArt, John Curtin Gallery
2010 Cossack Art Award (Invitation), Shire of Roebourne
2010 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2009 Cossack Art Award (Invitation), Shire of Roebourne
2009 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2008 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award
Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2007 Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2006 Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award
Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2005 John Curtin Gallery
Minnawarra Art Award (Invitation), City of Armadale
2004 Fragments, Monart Gallery, Dalkeith
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