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I am an interdisciplinary artist from South Yorkshire currently living in Cardiff. I mainly work with video but also expand into genrative digital media, installation and digital collage. With my practice I create highly saturated humorous art that aims to toe the line between fine art and humour, sci-fi and erotica. 

My work centres around subverting traditional notions of femininity. Deeply embedded in elements of feminist sci-fi, the abject woman and complex sublime world building. Intense sensory elements, purposely abrasive and soothing, are ingrained into my practice to agitate and confront the viewer. A place where the abject body is also seen as an object of fascination and eroticism. Something you are immensely drawn to that you cannot look away from. The abject becomes objects of curiosity, titillation and entertainment. Extremely seductive and sexual.

 

Using humour, voyeuristic snippiest of imagery titillates and seduces the forced infantilisation current society has enacted upon us. The tactile objects become a visual portrayal of my own desires of materiality, creating a surrogate for physical connection and pleasure. Thus creating my own intimate world of fabricated femininity by means of solo performance and the looped gaze. In this the camera becomes an observer that I perform to. It records an explicit experience of myself to myself. I become the observer observing myself.

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Email

Fran_chambers@aol.co.uk

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Socials

Instagram @_fran.chambers

Vimeo @franchambers

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Education 

 

2014 – 2017     BA Fine Art 

                         Cardiff School of Art and Design 

2019 – 2021     MA Fine Art

                         Bath Spa University 

 

Awards 

 

2017                Dulcie Mayne Stephens Art Trust Award

 

2017                Even and Felicity Charlton Travel Award

 

Residencies

 

2021 -              Emerge, Bath

Present

 

2022 -              School of the Damed

2023

Exhibitions

 

2014               Anatomy fixation, Venture House, Rotherham

 

2017               CSAD BA Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art   and Design, Cardiff

 

2019               CwmafanFest, Ty Celf, Cwmavon

 

                       Empower Me!, G39, Cardiff 

 

                       MADE Winter Exhibition, Cardiff MADE, Cardiff

 

                       Under the Counter Culture, Tactile Bosch The old Vicarage, Cardiff

 

2020               Umbrella, Capitol Shopping Centre, Cardiff 

 

                       Untitled, Bath Spa University, Bath

 

2021               The Coded Cube, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath

 

                       Masters Degree Show, Bath Spa University, Bath

 

2022               Death of an Object, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath

 

                       WDT 2:4, Wet Dove tail, Online

 

                       Emerge in Wonderland, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath

 

                       Exposing Deviance, Brew Hull, Hull

 

                       Pale Pink, DareShack, Bristol

 

                       GWP, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath

 

                       7 Seconds, Fringe Arts Bath, bath

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