2022, monoprinted fabrics, threads, glue

40 cm x 22 cm ea.

Image courtesy of the artist

As if we could just turn and wade back

through the ghost of some ancient season

(Bird, H, L, 2016, lines 41-42).

Through my memory vessels, I express the ephemerality of being and the tracings that remain. Formed from dismantled and realigned monoprinted fabrics, the shadowed markings are the intangible shadows of past seasons. The ethereal is inherent to the partial translucency of fabrics and the fragility of construction. The vessels hold absence within their void, whilst silver threads lightly tracing within allude to past presence. The work is an expression of that which once was and the intangibility of that which remains.

Work cited: Bird, H, L, 2016, Lost Scrolls, Love Comes Back, Hera Lindsay Bird, Victoria University Press, Wellington, (New Zealand).

Frances Malcomson’s art intertwines printmaking, stitching and construction, underpinned by allegory, emotion and questioning. She interrogates the fragility of memories, the linking of emotion to memory and the sway of language upon emotion.

Frances was recently twice finalist in the Henry Jones Art Prize. She exhibited in Images of Tasmania, and the following UTAS shows- Parallel Echoes at TMAG, the Grad Show, and The Sensorial Body. Frances previously exhibited bespoke embellished garments in Fringe Festival and Fashion Fantasia parades. Her recent Bachelor of Fine Arts builds upon a previous Bachelor of Education (Visual Art Teaching) and an extensive teaching career.