rainwob ii FRANCIS UPRITCHARD

For the last few years, the work of London-based artist Francis Upritchard has investigated the representational forms and signs thrown up by colonial history, both in her original home of New Zealand and internationally. In particular, she has experimented with remodeling familiar cultural artifacts in unfamiliar or ‘inappropriate’ materials - for example “sloth” trophies out of old fur coats and “tiki’s” out of plastic. Her most recent works are figures developing on the edges of Fine Art and ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. Gestures, postures and expressions follow conventions from the holy to the crass. These cross the medieval, Sci-Fi and hippy. In new work planned for development and production in Sydney further tangents may be explored, including architectural structures - small dwellings in ceramic, glass, wood, found, leather elements.