Lotte Frances
My practice involves an investigation of how different methods of painting can produce an image that can be abstract yet strangely recognisable.
My work gains inspiration from familiar things such as pop culture and urban environments that I then transform into something uncertain and unknown. The process of painting assists me to focus on the transitive state between familiarity and unfamiliarity. In my practice-led research different methods of painting were used to represent the experience of this state of transition. Paint is a unique medium because the unconscious and intuitive gestures of each work can elicit uncanny, ambiguous and mysterious feelings.
The ideas in my work are a reaction to these discordant times, the uncanny world which COVID-19 has inflicted on a society that we live in that is familiar… yet completely unknown.
A Terrible Vision, 2020
Oil, acrylic and pencil on canvas
660mm x 510mm
Critters, 2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
960mm x 710mm
Motions That Seem Immediate, 2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
1380mm x 910mm
Images from Someones Brain..?, 2020
Oil, acrylic and pencil on canvas
870mm x 660mm
A Tribute to Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It’s Dark Outside, 2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
960mm x 710mm
Through the Worm Hole We Go, 2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
1230mm x 970mm
Traits of the Skin, 2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
510mm x 360mm
Who’s There..?, 2020
Oil, acrylic on canvas
410mm x 300mm
Photography credit: Matthew Stanton