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Frances Hatch
Degree: MA Printmaking
University: Wimbledon College of Art
Graduation Year: 1989
Frances Hatch creates joyful works that slow down the way we look at the world, encouraging us to attend to it, while restoring our capacity for wonder.
“Remarkable moments lived prompt me to make work. Making artwork is my way of sharing them.
I thrive on fresh air and attend to weather, seasonal shifts and all those subtle changes in temperature, light and humidity over the course of a day. Using waterbased media on different sorts of paper and surfaces (often integrating sand, clay or found textures or tools from the ground around me) allows me and my materials to respond moment by moment.
The fast changing light and intensity of colour at either ends of the day is a particular interest of mine. I wrestle with the sensations as I am caught up in the energy of it all. Hopefully this is reflected in the gestures and animation of the marks.
I make a good deal of my work on site - or at least begin the process in the landscape, often un- populated space. I'm renting a disused coastguard lookout this winter but I have a van with loads of space in the back as a mobile studio."
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Selected exhibition venues:
Chichester festivities: ARTISTS OF THE SOUTH 2009
DRAWN TO ANTARCTICA: Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University. 2010
ALL WEATHER WORKS: Quay Arts, Isle of Wight. 2010
HAMPSTEAD AFFORDABLE ART FAIR 2011
159th AUTUMN EXHIBITION. RWA Bristol 2011
Awards
Bath and West Show 2005 (1st Prize), 2007 (2nd prize), 2008 (past winners show)
Pallant House, Chichester ‘In House’ 2008 1st Prize
Lyme Open 2008 (2nd Prize)
Residencies:
La Sainte Union, Southampton. 1996
West Dean College, Chichester November 2005
KUBE, Poole December 2009
Publications:
50 WESSEX ARTISTS. EVOLVER book.2006
DRAWN TO ANTARCTICA. Viriditas Press 2009
MATTER ARISING. 2011
Live Performance:
Unsafe Festival, Lighthouse, Poole. Collaboration 2008, 2009
Collaboration with Europa String Choir and Owen Davis (poet) 2009
ANTARCTICA ENCORE: Bournemouth University (with Europa String Choir) 2010
FROZEN ORCHESTRAS OF LOST SOUND: A Creative Arts Conference at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 2011.