Frances Gynn RWA
Born 1960
2000 BA(hons)Fine Art, Exeter, Devon
1981 S.A.I.D. Graphic Design
Lives and works in Devon
Exhibition History
On now:
2023 9 September 2023 – 14 January 2024 The Royal West of England 170th Annual Open Exhibition
2023 November ‘Disappearing Marks’ Solo exhibition, Velarde, Kingsbridge, Devon with ‘Public Erasure - Hare’ BBC Spotlight coverage. Opened by Jonathan Dimbleby
Coming up:
2024 February 1 - 17 ‘The John Ruskin Prize -Seeing the Unseen, Hearing the Unspoken’ - Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
2024 June 22-29 ‘ACT with the Arts - Climate Change Festival ‘ Public Erasure - Hazel Dormouse, Newton Abbot, Devon
2024 August ‘The Water Vole Reintroduction project’, Public Erasure - Water Vole Slapton, Devon
2024 Uganda ‘Public Erasure’ TBC
History
2023 June Forest of Imagination ‘Public Erasure’, The Assembly Rooms, Bath
2023 June Bees for Development Garden Party Marlborough House Gardens, Pall Mall, London ‘Public Erasure - Bees’.
2023 April The Great Imagining The Assembly Rooms, Bath. ‘Public Erasure - Grey Long Eared Bat’
2023 April The Great Imagining Earth Day, Climate Hub, Exeter. ‘Public Erasure - Blue Ground Beetle’
2022 -2023 October- January RWA 168 Annual Open Exhibition Royal West of England Academy, Bristol ‘Public Erasure - Spiny seahorse’
2022 December Dancing Not boxing Solo Exhibition East Allington, Devon
2022 South West Printmaking Open, Group Exhibition, Studio KIND, Braunton
2022 July Black Swan Arts Open 2022 Group Exhibition, Frome, Somerset
2022 Uneven Ground Group Exhibition, Studio KIND, Braunton ‘Public Erasure - Slender Billed Curlew’
2022 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London ‘Public Erasure - Beachcomber Beetle’
2022 This is me Exhibition Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
2022 Under the Surface Group Exhibition Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
2021 Birds at The Hide Solo Exhibition, East Allington, Devon. ‘Public Erasure - Scarce Blackneck Moth’
2020 -2021 November - May RWA 168 Annual Open Exhibition Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2020 December Estuary - The Elements Joint Exhibition, Dart Estuary
2020 October Sunny Art Prize 2020 3rd Prizewinner, Sunny Art Centre, London
2020 September 20:60 Paintings and Drawings Frances Gynn Solo Exhibition Collection of Works, Devon
2020 October Exhibition Burton at Bideford Gallery Artist Commission Award 2020
2020 Burton at Bideford Gallery Artist Commission Award 2020
2020 18 January – 2 February Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition 2019 Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (touring)
2019 -2020 now until 11 January 2020 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition 2019 Salisbury Museum, Wiltshire (touring)
2019 12 - 23 november South West Academy Open Exhibition
2019 The ArTag Award 167th Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Exhibition
2019 September. 167th Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Exhibition
2019 September. Selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019
2019 July. Group Exhibition Picturing the Word Dartington Print Workshop, Devon. An exhibition of handmade artists’ books.
2019 May. Group Exhibition Re-birth Coombe Gallery Devon
2019 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship Advisory Committee Member
2019 Elected Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Academician
2018 Selected for the Wells Art Contemporary Awards exhibition
2018 Selected for the Trinity Buoy (formerly Jerwood) drawing Prize exhibition
2018 November. Fellowship Award, Bogliasco, Italy
2017 Open Exhibition 165 Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol.
2017 Collaborative and Solo Hallsands Revisited, South Hallsands cliff top, Devon. A site-specific event to commemorate the centenary year of the taking of the village of thirty seven houses by the sea. A collaborative event with musicians Lona Kozik and Sam Richards including an audio/visual performance. (Catalogue). https://www.hallsandsarts.co.uk
2017 Award and Open Exhibition Drawn 2017, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol. Winner of the Theresa Knowles Travel Bursary Award
2017 Group Exhibition Off the Peg. Printmakers from the Dartington Print Workshop, Dartington, Devon.
2017 Mixed Exhibition Tree Life, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon.
2016 Solo Exhibition Frances Gynn, Paintings and Drawings Little Dartmouth, Devon. The culmination of work produced after an eighteen month residency. A site-specific response to the work of garden designer, Dan Pearson. Landscaping on the coast from cultivated to wild. (Catalogue).
2015 Group Exhibition Palate to Palette, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth,Devon.
2014-2016 Residency Little Dartmouth - Eighteen month residency at Little Dartmouth, Devon responding to the work of garden designer Dan Pearson
Oct-Dec 2014 - 'Tideline' Galerie het Vijfde, Antwerp
July 2014 - 'Flow' Little Dartmouth, Devon
March 2013 - Royal West of England Academy Drawn 2013 Exhibition
2012 - Bunker Project Marlborough. Mixed exhibition.
2010 - John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Second Stage Finalist
2010 - Raw Material Exhibition Coombe Gallery, Devon
2009 - Coombe Gallery, Devon
2008 - Unseen South Hams group exhibition
2008 - Mixed exhibition, Coombe Gallery Devon
2007 - Affordable art fair
2007 - Mixed exhibition Coombe Gallery, Devon
2006 - Solo Exhibition, Ainscough Gallery, London
2005 - Art Bar Live, Exeter
2004 - Drawing the line, Coombe Gallery Devon
2000 - British Arts Festival Kuwait
2000 - Bahrain
1989 - Turicum Gallery, Zurich Switzerland