Description

‘Shocks to thought’ is how Barbara Bolt described those cataclysmic moments in the studio driven research process, when theory, experience and material collide, merge and reform to create new knowledge. Reflecting on her practice-based PhD project, Susan Francis will attempt to unravel that entanglement in her own work, tracking each node of her enquiry both back to its source, and forward to its point of departure.

Susan is a Belfast born artist, curator and writer now living and working in Wiltshire. Through both digital and analogue hand-made processes, she creates poetic, unsettling, and quietly seductive objects and installations that immerse the viewer in a fragile and transcendent space. These draw from the aesthetics, the materiality, and the shared narratives of the lived environment. She completed a master’s degree in theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College, Salisbury in 2022 and is currently studying a practice-based PhD at Winchester School of Art. The film created from her PhD research has recently been screened at the Danielle Arnaud gallery, London. Susan has work held in public and private collections in the UK, North America in the collection of the Arts Council Collection of Northern Ireland and is currently a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

This is a free talk, but booking is required.

Join us on 3 November at 5:30pm UK-time for an exploration with Susan Francis to map the relational research process in practice based research!