Frances Pinnock
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Frances Pinnock was born in Bristol, UK (1990). She holds a BA in Model Making from the Arts University Bournemouth and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited in several group shows and fairs in the UK and abroad, garnering praise from critics. Pinnock's work has appeared in the show ‘Formed with Future Heritage’ at the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London as well as at Collect, Somerset House, London. She has been celebrated through numerous awards, including, The Leathersellers’ Academic Grant, Developing Your Creative Practice: Arts Council England, and the Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust Grant via the Royal College of Art. Her studio practice is informed by a background in bespoke accessories and stop-motion animation. Her experience making body parts for puppets and training in hand sewn shoemaking have led her to develop the unique technical skills that are integral to her work.
Frances' practice is an exploration of junctures, understood both temporally and materially. She utilises collected objects and organic media – variously, leather, vellum, wax and hair – to create works that possess something of the uncanny in their materiality and configuration. Her work combines material assemblage, gestural mark making and meticulous hand processing, layering influences from art history, literature, puppetry, dance, and historical garment making with narratives grounded in subjective experience. In their subtle hints at the figurative, her sculptures gesture to the unseen presence of the body. Informed by a sense of latent or residual motion, Pinnock’s static objects elicit a feeling of expectancy, as if holding poses or postures that might change when unobserved. Labour intensive processes of pattern cutting and hand stitching are used to make three-dimensional forms in leather. These forms are often juxtaposed with assembled components of collected objects that are arranged and rearranged until they rest in a final configuration. The titles of her works evolve in a similar way, sometimes riffing off idioms or playing with phonetics and intonation, alluding to something beyond the works themselves. -
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Frances Pinnock, Dress for the job you want (Accoutrements and Illuminations), 2023 -
Frances Pinnock, Steady metronome (Custom melody), 2024
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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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Frances PinnockBombard Asymmetric III, 2020Leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockBombard Dyad I, 2020Oak bark leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockBombard Dyad II, 2019Leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockOsculare (Miniature), 2021Leather, hemp, beeswax
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Frances PinnockVolatilia (Dream with Pelican), 2023Mixed media - leather, copper, wood, hemp, beeswax, shellac, iron sulphate
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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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