Frances Richardson studied at Norwich School of Art and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2006 with MA in Fine Art Sculpture (presented with the Conran Award for overall best graduate exhibition of 2006).

Her drawings are composed using the signs + and – as marks in various densities of lead pencil. For her they are “ a conceptual preposition, the presentation of the moment of being in space and time: a pulse that tends towards nothing and everything” . She also describes the work as a gestural act: “drawing is a point of touch, an action that marks the intangible physical reality of being in a moment and a suspension and presentation of this moment to the viewer.”

Richardson describes her sculptural works as “walk-in drawings”. The intent is that the viewer, does not stand apart regarding an object, or enter into an installation, but becomes part of an imaginary field within actual space. In this field tables, chairs, I-beams, floorboards, carpets, beds etc. are “drawn” using MDF/plywood in 3 dimensions. Paired down to structural forms they effect through their physical presence, denying the seduction of surface histories.

Museum collections:
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, USA

Publications:
Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Contemporary Drawing, Phaidon NY 2005
KEY: New York Times Magazine, Fall 2006


Education:
2004-06 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art Sculpture

Solo exhibitions:
2008
Playing Against Reason, The Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh

2007
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
INTERNUS, The Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh
The Scene Gallery, New York

2002
SOLD OUT, Vauxhall St Peters Heritage Centre, London Recent Drawings, The Scene Gallery, New York

2001
Sign & Deliver, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Selected group exhibitions:
2008
ARTfutures, London
Present, H P Garcia Gallery, NY
Walking The Line, Kudlek van der Grinten Gallerie, Cologne
Life’s a Gas, Beverly Knowles Gallery, London
Suffragette City, The Spare Room, London

2007
Drawing Now, DM Contemporary, NY
Transformer, Woburn Sq Research Centre, UCL, London
ANTICIPATION, One One One, London
Three Part Harmony, The Curators Office, Washington
BLOCK PARTY: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, LA

2006
No Man Is An Island, London
In Motion, London
BLOCK PARTY: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, LA
MAN Drawing Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London

2005
Dyscotopiary, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

2004
The Biggest Draw The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

2003
Lilo 8 & 9, Gasworks Artist Studio, London

2002
Lilo 1, Conductors Hallway, London
Lilo 4, Relief Night, Conductors Hallway, London
FLUENT, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2001
Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, Cheltenham, London, Hull, Geneva

2000
More than Meets the Eye, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Project Anonymous, Berlin
Art Colony Galichnik, Skopje, Macedonia