contact: E: info@franceshatch.co.uk M: 07946903930
about Frances Hatch
Instagram: @francesahatch Facebook: franceshatchartist
Frances was born in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. She currently lives near Bridport in West Dorset, her home is a short walk from the Jurassic Coast- within the sound of Chesil beach. Frances makes work about location- on location- integrating site materials with water-based media…carrying as little as possible in terms of materials and tools, she relies on what is already in place.
‘Geology becomes my pigment. Sun, moon, tide and season animate, reveal and conceal. I witness matter on the move: particular, provisional: permanent impermanence’.
Training:
C.C.A.T. (Cambridge) Foundation Course 1973-74
Aberystwyth University College of Wales - Hons degree in French and Visual Art 1974-78
Auditrice Libre, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nantes 1976
Goldsmiths’ College, A.T.C. 1978-79
Wimbledon College of Art: Postgraduate- MA Printmaking 1986-89
Selected recent exhibitions:
RWA: 159th & 161st ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION, Bristol. 2011 + 2013 + 2015
LYNN PAINTER-STAINERS PRIZE. Mall Galleries, The Mall, London. 2014 + 2016
WORKS ON PAPER FAIR, LONDON. 2015 + 2016 +2017
KEVIS HOUSE GALLERY, Petworth. 2015 + 2016 +2017
SLADERS YARD, West Bay, Dorset. 2015 + 2017
THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATERCOLOURS. Mall Galleries, 2016 + 2017
ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION. 2016
THE ING DISCERNING EYE EXHIBITION, Mall Galleries, London. 2013 + 2015 + 2016
THE GATEHOUSE GALLERY, St Peter Port, Guernsey. solo show 2016
THELMA HULBERT GALLERY, Honiton, solo show 2017
Awards:
Visiting Artist. Gate House Gallery, Guernsey. March 2016
The Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial Prize at The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) exhibition: 2016
The THG OPEN 2016- (winner)
Residencies:
KUBE, Poole. 2009
PAVILLION DANCE, Bournemouth 2011 + 2012
DURLSTON COUNTRY PARK NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE. Swanage 2014
SOIL CULTURE RESIDENCY at The Eden Project: shortlist. August 2014
Publications:
Drawn to Antarctica: an artist’s view. 2005 Viriditas Press. ISBN: 978-0-9562647-0-1
Chesil Moons: 2017 Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-1-8
With Red Earth Under My Nails: 2017 Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-2-5
Contribution to publications:
Missal Birds: origami microbook printed by Steve Hitchens poems by Elisabeth Bletsoe.
Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings. Artevents, 2010. (at the invitation of Elisabeth Bletsoe, poet)
Artist and Illustrators Magazine, Featured Contributor. January 2014 issue.
40 Artist Educator Project. Commissioned by Access Art 2014
Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists. Thames and Hudson, 2015
EARTH- 2014 (with Sladers Yard) May 2015
THE JACKDAW MAGAZINE. Easel Notes. May/June Issue. 2016
Instagram: @francesahatch Facebook: franceshatchartist
Frances was born in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. She currently lives near Bridport in West Dorset, her home is a short walk from the Jurassic Coast- within the sound of Chesil beach. Frances makes work about location- on location- integrating site materials with water-based media…carrying as little as possible in terms of materials and tools, she relies on what is already in place.
‘Geology becomes my pigment. Sun, moon, tide and season animate, reveal and conceal. I witness matter on the move: particular, provisional: permanent impermanence’.
Training:
C.C.A.T. (Cambridge) Foundation Course 1973-74
Aberystwyth University College of Wales - Hons degree in French and Visual Art 1974-78
Auditrice Libre, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nantes 1976
Goldsmiths’ College, A.T.C. 1978-79
Wimbledon College of Art: Postgraduate- MA Printmaking 1986-89
Selected recent exhibitions:
RWA: 159th & 161st ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION, Bristol. 2011 + 2013 + 2015
LYNN PAINTER-STAINERS PRIZE. Mall Galleries, The Mall, London. 2014 + 2016
WORKS ON PAPER FAIR, LONDON. 2015 + 2016 +2017
KEVIS HOUSE GALLERY, Petworth. 2015 + 2016 +2017
SLADERS YARD, West Bay, Dorset. 2015 + 2017
THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATERCOLOURS. Mall Galleries, 2016 + 2017
ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION. 2016
THE ING DISCERNING EYE EXHIBITION, Mall Galleries, London. 2013 + 2015 + 2016
THE GATEHOUSE GALLERY, St Peter Port, Guernsey. solo show 2016
THELMA HULBERT GALLERY, Honiton, solo show 2017
Awards:
Visiting Artist. Gate House Gallery, Guernsey. March 2016
The Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial Prize at The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) exhibition: 2016
The THG OPEN 2016- (winner)
Residencies:
KUBE, Poole. 2009
PAVILLION DANCE, Bournemouth 2011 + 2012
DURLSTON COUNTRY PARK NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE. Swanage 2014
SOIL CULTURE RESIDENCY at The Eden Project: shortlist. August 2014
Publications:
Drawn to Antarctica: an artist’s view. 2005 Viriditas Press. ISBN: 978-0-9562647-0-1
Chesil Moons: 2017 Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-1-8
With Red Earth Under My Nails: 2017 Viriditas Press. ISBN 978-0-9562647-2-5
Contribution to publications:
Missal Birds: origami microbook printed by Steve Hitchens poems by Elisabeth Bletsoe.
Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings. Artevents, 2010. (at the invitation of Elisabeth Bletsoe, poet)
Artist and Illustrators Magazine, Featured Contributor. January 2014 issue.
40 Artist Educator Project. Commissioned by Access Art 2014
Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists. Thames and Hudson, 2015
EARTH- 2014 (with Sladers Yard) May 2015
THE JACKDAW MAGAZINE. Easel Notes. May/June Issue. 2016
