Kay Frances

I'm an Australian contemporary visual artist, working from my studio in a coastal town in Northern NSW. Outside I create ephemeral sculptures, using what is around me - palm leaves, and other organic matter become 'mysterious creatures' that appear and disappear with the seasons. Inside is an extension of outside and vice versa. My new series of paintings called 'Bamboo Offerings' have taken a year to produce. The paintings are scraped back, layer upon layer appear and disappear. A feeling in a brushstroke, a memory of a place in a layer, a mark becomes an experience in the no-time zone. Im always working to create memories of the past in the present and beyond is the silence.... For me art is life is meditation, and lives and breathes itself...... KF Jan, 2013

Art EducationDavid DAgostino, Master Classes, Cairo, Egypt 1998-1999Margo Veillon, Cairo, Geneva, Studio Practice, 1999/2000Tobias School of Art, East Grinstead, UK, Summer Classes, 2000Selected Solo Exhibitions 2008 Art2Muse, Sydney, Whose land is it anyway, acrylic on linen2005/6 Sculpture garden exhibition, Mullumbimby, NSW2005 Galeria Zero, Barcelona, acrylic on canvas2004 Galeria Zero, Barcelona, 2004 Triaditiza, Sofia Town Hall, The Passage Way, Sofia, New works, 2003 Sredetz Gallery, Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre, Sofia, Triaditiza Sofia town hall paintings, 2002 Astry Gallery, Sofia, The Unseen in Scene Triaditiza, Sofia town hall, works in acrylic, Ocean series, 2001 The Passage Way, Sofia, Bulgaria, Arrival2001 The Shack, Cairo, Egypt, Selected Group Exhibition2010 Martin Galleries, Brisbane Group Show #1 2009 Still @ the centre, Waywood Gallery, Pan (Practising Artists Network)2008 Still @ the centre, Waywood Gallery, Pan exhibition Tweed Regional Art gallery, Border Art prize2007 Waywood Gallery Byron Bay, Smalls acrylic on canvas In Good Company Artspace Byron Bay, acrylic on canvas GoldCoast City Art Gallery Border Art prize exhibition2006 Fehva...