Frances Kiernan
franceskiernan.co.uk
@frances_kiernan
The rhythms of landscape and language influence the work Frances makes. The traces we leave behind and the history of patterns formed often becomes her starting point. Her interest in man’s relationship with the landscape and the effect that landscape has on man led her to look at the work of poet John Clare who documented the effect on place and people when the enclosure acts granted landowners permission to fence the open fields. In her series of prints ‘Where We Once Walked’ she links the plates with a blind emboss thread to acknowledge the time when people worked and walked freely on what was once common land.
Thread and cloth have long been an integral part of her printmaking practice and in a new series of prints she introduces weaving to her work with text and mark making at its centre.
Between the Lines V
Etching
24 x 20cm
Between the Lines IV
Etching
24 x 20cm
Where We Once Walked
Etching
12.5 x 35cm
Walk 1
Etching
10 x 11cm
Script No.2
Paper weft weave screenprint on Japanese paper
17 x 18cm
Script No 3
Paper weft weave etching
17 x 16cm