NOT EVEN NOTHING CAN BE FREE FROM GHOSTS

2018 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Exhibition , S t a n d p o i n t, London and Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria

"A thought drawing, drawing of a thought" is a framed pair of delicate pencil drawings showing continuous chevron shapes, an ancient symbol of water in several cultures, and made up in Richardson’s signature style of tiny plus/minus, positive/negative signs. Although, with its minimal mark-making gestures and pale tone, it is one of the least visually imposing elements of the exhibition, it actually serves as a key to the whole installation, bringing together the subtle and indirect imagery of water with the implicit relationship between the material delineation of space and philosophically measured conceptual thinking that is always to be found throughout Frances Richardson’s reflective and sophisticated sculptural practice.

By Derek Horton, Corridor8 see full review here

Not even nothing can be free of ghosts, 2018, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria

A thought drawn / drawing of thought, 2018, pencil on paper

What beauty is I know not: fig.2, 2018, video, screen, foam
This dry feeling will pass, 2018, Walnut wood, copper, H. 3m

A thought drawn / drawing of thought, 2018, pencil on paper, (2) 100 x 66 cm | 391/2 x 30 in

What beauty is I know not: fig.2, 2018, video, screen, foam

What beauty is I know not: fig.2, 2018, video, screen, foam

From front to back:

This dry feeling will pass, 2018, Walnut wood, copper, H. 3m
Not all temporary objects can be avoided, 2018,Golden madrone wood veneer, metal, Perspex, dimensions variable
Eidolon: I thought I could smell water, 2018,Chipboard, paint, paper, H.160 cm

left to right:

Not all temporary objects can be avoided, 2018,Golden madrone wood veneer, metal, Perspex, dimensions variable
Eidolon: I thought I could smell water, 2018, Chipboard, paint, paper, H.160 cm

Eidolon: I thought I could smell water, 2018

Chipboard, paint, paper H.160 cm

left to right:

If I measure it must exist; fig.2, 2018, Ashwood, copper, H. 3m
Divider, 2018, Ashwood, concrete canvas, H. 84cm L. 600cm

Split object, 2017

Plywood, approx. H. 20cm W. 60cm D. 40cm

Foreground
Divider, 2018, Ashwood, concrete canvas, H. 84cm L. 600cm

We have never been modern: Goodhope, 2018

Photograph mounted on Aluminium, edition of 3, 120 x 85cm | 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in

Not even nothing can be free of ghosts, 2018, Standpoint, London

Eidolon: I thought I could smell water, 2018

Chipboard, paint, paper, H.160 cm
and foreground
Divider, 2018, Ashwood, concrete canvas

This dry feeling will pass, 2018

Walnut wood, copper, H. 3m

This dry feeling will pass,2018, detail

If I measure it must exist, 2018

Walnut wood, copperleaf, H. 3m
and foreground
Not all temporary objects can be avoided, 2018, Golden madrone wood veneer, metal, Perspex, dimensions variable