Francesca Owen

 

Education

2010-2012                  University College Falmouth, MA

2005-2009                 The Slade School of Fine Art, BA

 

Awards/ Scholarships

2010-2012                 University College Falmouth Bursary Award

2010                          Creative Enterprise Cornwall Award

2009                          The Jeremy Cubitt Prize

2005-2009                The Euan Uglow Memorial Scholarship

2005                          The Worshipful Company of Painter’s Stainers Prize

 

Residencies

2012                          Trebah Garden, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, U.K

2010                          Ock Pop Tok, Living Crafts Centre, Luang Prabang, Laos

 

Exhibitions

2017                          Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall, London

2017                          Pairadaeza, White Moose, Barnstaple, North Devon

2017                          Green Hill Open, Greenhill Arts, Mortenhampstead, Dartmoor, Devon

2017                          New Year- New Work, North Devon Arts, Broomhill, North Devon

2016                          Annual Open Exhibition, Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society, North Devon

2016                          Soil Culture: Deep Roots, Plymouth University, Devon

2015                          Annual Open Exhibition, Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society, North Devon

2015                          Soil Culture, Exeter University, Exeter, Devon

2015                          Soil Culture: Deep Roots, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall

2014                          Soil Culture, Falmouth University, Cornwall

2012                          In the Dark Times, CMR Arts Space, Redruth, Cornwall

2012                          MA Degree Show, University College Falmouth, Cornwall

2012                          A Cultivation Field, Symposium and Exhibition, in association with the Arts Council England                                         and PhD researcher Kate, Corder, The Keep, Reading

2011                          The Colour Garden, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall

2010                          In the Midst of Wonders, The Royal Polytechnic Society, Falmouth, Cornwall

2009                         Solo Show, Ock Pop Tok, Living Crafts Centre, Luang Prabang, Laos

2009                         On Land, Fulham Palace Gallery, Bishop’s Avenue, London

2009                         The Slade BA Summer Shows, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

2007                         Turtle, Woburn Studios, Woburn Square, London

2006                         Eating Under Water, The Thomas a Becket, Old Kent Road, London

 

Installations

2012                          Surrey Docks Ecological Park, Indigo

2011                           An Impromptu Happening, Fox Rose Hill Gardens, Cornwall

 

Workshops

2017                         Tropical Pressure, Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Porthtowan, Cornwall

2015                         Tales of the Riverbank, North Devon

2015                         Painting Together, White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple, North Devon

2015                         Wild Dyes, eARTh, Ilfracombe, North Devon

2015                         For the Love of Art, eARTh, Ilfracombe, North Devon

2012                         Surrey Docks City Farm, London

2012                         Trebah Gardens, Falmouth

2011                         Sublime Indigo, The Fish Factory Arts Space, Falmouth

2011                         The Value of Trees, North Devon

2011                         Lowershaw Farm, Swindon

2011                         The Women’s Institute, Falmouth, Cornwall

2011                         Arts For Health, Truro Library, Cornwall

2011                         Gather Gather, Falmouth

2011                         The Larmer Tree Festival, Dorset

2011                         Penzance Shipping Container, Cornwall

2010                         Poltair School, in association with Cornwall Council

2010                         The Colour Garden, Newlyn Art Gallery & Creative Enterprise Cornwall

 

2013                         Learning Facilitation, National Autistic Society

 

2014                         eARTh, workshop, ideas and project space opens

 

 

Painting

My painting practice reveals a continuous development about a response to environments, taking place in the landscape and in the studio. Going back to painting made me feel differently about it as the practice of painting provides me with a way of understanding and apprehending a deeper appreciation through visual language. I made a series of paintings as a response to living by the sea and the feeling this gives, focusing on brush marks and colour to provide a language to convey these feelings.

 

Drawing

My drawing practice acts as a way of seeing and encountering the world. Spending time drawing provides a means of close observation, studying the forms of plants to understand them better.

 

Dyes

Using local and exotic plants in the SW and mud from the Thames River, London, the Penryn Estuary, Cornwall and earth pigments from North Devon, West Somerset and Pembrokeshire, Wales, I have experimented with traditional and contemporary dye techniques including solar, burying, composting and immersion.

 

Film

Film work is mostly done in collaboration with other artists including dancers and attempts to portray aspects of the natural world, including human interraction. 

 

Theatre

The Sanford Collective Independent Theatre Company

 

Research

Earth Walks

Kew Gardens research interview

The Eden Project research interview

Jenny Dean

Jenny Balfour-Paul

The Permacouture Institute

Mud project river Thames

 

Other information

PTTLS award in teaching

Enhanced CRB check

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