Frances Pinnock
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Working across sculpture, painting and drawing, Frances Pinnock explores the interplay between the temporal and the material and the porous boundary between the conscious and the unconscious. As the body retains tensions, emotions, memories and dreams, so her works act as a place for reflection and revisitation.
Moving between media, Pinnock employs a range of processes both light and labour intensive and draws references from a technical background in accessories construction and puppet making. She works with specialist materials such as oak tanned leather and vellum, alongside metallic elements and found objects. Her sculptures evolve slowly and compositionally through pattern cutting and hand stitching, while her paintings occupy a space of intuitive gesture and material alchemy.
Frances Pinnock is a visual artist living and working in London. She holds a BA in Modelmaking from Arts University Bournemouth (2014) and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2023), where she was awarded the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship and the Gilbert Bayes Award. In 2024, Pinnock was awarded the Ingram Prize for her work Light Sleeper, and in 2025 will present an institutional solo exhibition of the same name with Lightbox Gallery & Museum, Woking, UK. Exhibition highlights include FOG Design+Art, San Francisco, USA with Sarah Myerscough Gallery (2025, 2022); Ingram Prize at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, UK (2024); This Country at Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK (2024); Sculpted Matter at Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, UK (Online, 2024); TEFAF, Maastricht, Netherlands with Sarah Myerscough Gallery (2024); MA Sculpture Degree Show at the Royal College of Art, London, UK (2023); Cut and Fold at Make Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2023); Material Beings at Cromwell Place, London, UK (2023); Hung, Drawn and Quartered at Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (2023); Collect at Somerset House with QEST, London, UK (2022); Future Heritage at Olympia, London, UK (2021); Welding Cultures at SoShiro Gallery, London, UK (2021). Her work is held in the collections of The Ingram Collection Of Modern British And Contemporary Art, UK and the Museum of Leathercraft, UK.
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Works
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Frances PinnockSteady metronome (Custom melody), 2024Leather, hemp, beeswax, rayon, cotton, brass & lead -
Frances PinnockDress for the job you want (Accoutrements and Illuminations), 2023Leather, hemp, beeswax, resin & brass
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Frances PinnockWe should come here some time, I, 2022Leather, hemp, beeswax, horsehair
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Frances PinnockWe should come here some time, II, 2022Leather, hemp, beeswax, horsehair
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Frances PinnockOsculare (Miniature), 2021Leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockBombard Dyad I, 2020Oak bark leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockBombard Asymmetric III, 2020Leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockBombard Asymmetric I, 2019Oak bark leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockBombard Asymmetric II, 2019Oak bark leather, hemp, beeswax
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SIGNATURE WORKS
