Francis Ives C.V
Born 1969, Essex, United Kingdom, Email: Francis_ives@yahoo.co.uk
Artwork
I make paintings or drawings on panels, walls and other surface often in relation to the given architecture of a space or intervention into a space. Non Objective lines and shapes, from simple geometric to meandering open form made through collage and stencil and other process. The whole, spill & containment, leaks, disruption, destruction, order and disorder, decorative pattern or abject stain. Artwork can be large-scale or in smaller parts, artworks are arranged within a given space and that space may be altered or adapted in relation to an artwork.
A Recent Artwork:
‘Filler’ is an artwork made for Exeter Phoenix’s 333 gallery space. A drawing or painting inhabits a space far smaller than its dimensions, the paper surface is transferred onto 4 slowly moving cylinders and the whole image is seen in parts while moving around the space, a painting becomes a kinetic sculpture imitating simple mechanical form.
Education
Slade School of Art MFA Fine Art 2001- 2003, Byam Shaw School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art 1st class 1999 - 2001
Teaching
Higher Education Exeter College, Associate Lecturer Fine Art. West Dean College, Chichester, Drawing & Fine Art Practice, Further Education Coleg Glan Hafren, Cardiff, Access to Art Course leader.
Arts Organisation
Founder & Director of Exeter Artspace Artist Studios, a Community Interest Company, established in late 2007
Selected exhibitions
2009 Transition: Exeter Castle & Bargehouse Gallery London
2006:O Contemporary Gallery, Takashi Murakami and others, Brighton 6 Gloss paintings on panels.
2005: Found in Space ‘Black Patent Leather Room’ Installation & Paintings, 45 Tudor Rd Hackney London. Paintings on Paper, West Dean College, Chichester, exhibition of residency artwork.
2004: Polling Station Site Based Painting & Screen-print, Six artists, Parkside library, Victoria park rd, Hackney London
2004:Trackers Pitshangor Manor Gallery & Museum, curated by Charles Danby & Alejandro Ospina, artists Goshka Makuga, Bruce McLean & others
2003: Atlantic Group show, American & British artists, contemporary art projects, 20 Rivington St, London. Found in Space 1st Group show, 45 Tudor Rd Hackney London. Baroque’n’Roll Graduate show from Slade School, RCA & Royal Academy, Radio City Cars Gallery, Old St London. Painting in the park Woburn SQ, London MFA student show Shoreditch Salon Columbia Rd Flower Market. Ravenscroft warehouse Group show.
2002 Hang the Curator, concept show, precursor to ‘Trackers’ ACAVA Studios, Faroe Rd, Hammersmith, London.
Publications
Trackers exhibition catalogue April 2004, Curated by Alejandro Ospina & Charles Danby. Essay by Charles Danby. Artists Newsletter July 2004, Image & Exhibition Review.
Awards :2003 Steers prize for outstanding performance in painting, Slade School of Art.
Born 1969, Essex, United Kingdom, Email: Francis_ives@yahoo.co.uk
Artwork
I make paintings or drawings on panels, walls and other surface often in relation to the given architecture of a space or intervention into a space. Non Objective lines and shapes, from simple geometric to meandering open form made through collage and stencil and other process. The whole, spill & containment, leaks, disruption, destruction, order and disorder, decorative pattern or abject stain. Artwork can be large-scale or in smaller parts, artworks are arranged within a given space and that space may be altered or adapted in relation to an artwork.
A Recent Artwork:
‘Filler’ is an artwork made for Exeter Phoenix’s 333 gallery space. A drawing or painting inhabits a space far smaller than its dimensions, the paper surface is transferred onto 4 slowly moving cylinders and the whole image is seen in parts while moving around the space, a painting becomes a kinetic sculpture imitating simple mechanical form.
Education
Slade School of Art MFA Fine Art 2001- 2003, Byam Shaw School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art 1st class 1999 - 2001
Teaching
Higher Education Exeter College, Associate Lecturer Fine Art. West Dean College, Chichester, Drawing & Fine Art Practice, Further Education Coleg Glan Hafren, Cardiff, Access to Art Course leader.
Arts Organisation
Founder & Director of Exeter Artspace Artist Studios, a Community Interest Company, established in late 2007
Selected exhibitions
2009 Transition: Exeter Castle & Bargehouse Gallery London
2006:O Contemporary Gallery, Takashi Murakami and others, Brighton 6 Gloss paintings on panels.
2005: Found in Space ‘Black Patent Leather Room’ Installation & Paintings, 45 Tudor Rd Hackney London. Paintings on Paper, West Dean College, Chichester, exhibition of residency artwork.
2004: Polling Station Site Based Painting & Screen-print, Six artists, Parkside library, Victoria park rd, Hackney London
2004:Trackers Pitshangor Manor Gallery & Museum, curated by Charles Danby & Alejandro Ospina, artists Goshka Makuga, Bruce McLean & others
2003: Atlantic Group show, American & British artists, contemporary art projects, 20 Rivington St, London. Found in Space 1st Group show, 45 Tudor Rd Hackney London. Baroque’n’Roll Graduate show from Slade School, RCA & Royal Academy, Radio City Cars Gallery, Old St London. Painting in the park Woburn SQ, London MFA student show Shoreditch Salon Columbia Rd Flower Market. Ravenscroft warehouse Group show.
2002 Hang the Curator, concept show, precursor to ‘Trackers’ ACAVA Studios, Faroe Rd, Hammersmith, London.
Publications
Trackers exhibition catalogue April 2004, Curated by Alejandro Ospina & Charles Danby. Essay by Charles Danby. Artists Newsletter July 2004, Image & Exhibition Review.
Awards :2003 Steers prize for outstanding performance in painting, Slade School of Art.