About
Frances Pinnock is an artist living and working in London. Her 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 sculptures combine meticulous hand processing, gestural mark making and assemblage, layering influences from Surrealism, puppetry, dance, and garment making with narratives grounded in subjective experience.
Central to Pinnock’s work are the processes of pattern cutting and hand stitching, enabling ideas to shift between two and three-dimensions. These formulaic and often repetitive elements are juxtaposed by ones of gesture and intuition – as assembled components are playfully arranged and rearranged until they rest in a final composition. Through the making of her work Pinnock experiences points of tension and rest in movement, while the works themselves engender tensions between motion and stasis, body and object.
Frances Pinnock (b.1990, Bristol, UK) holds a BA in Modelmaking from the Arts University Bournemouth and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She is an awards recipient of QEST and Arts Council England and received the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship and the Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust Award while at the RCA. Her works have been exhibited internationally – recent exhibitions include TEFAF Maastricht, NL (2024), Material Beings, Cromwell Place, London, UK (2023), Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (2023), Cut and Fold, Make Hauser and Wirth, Somerset, UK (2023) and FOG Design + Art, San Francisco, USA (2022).
