Loss of object and bondage to it Sculpture

Frances Richardson was born in Leeds, She studied at Norwich School of Art and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2006 with MA in Fine Art Sculpture (presented with the Conran Award for overall best graduate exhibition of 2006). Her work is in private and public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, USA. Her drawings feature in the Phaidon publication, Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Contemporary Drawing and recent reviews include KEY: New York Times Magazine and LA Times, review by Leah Ollman Friday 4th May 2007.Frances has a studio at Voltaire Studios in Clapham, London and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Norwich School of Art.Richardson describes her sculptural works as walk-in drawings. The intent is that the viewer, does not stand apart regarding an object, or enter into an installation, but becomes part of an imaginary field within actual space. In this field tables, chairs, I-beams, floorboards, carpets, beds etc. are drawn using MDF/plywood in 3 dimensions. Paired down to structural forms they effect through their physical presence, denying the seduction of surface histories. Her drawings use the signs + and as marks in various densities of lead pencil. The drawings for her are a conceptual preposition, the presentation of the moment of being in space and time: a pulse that tends towards nothing and everything. It is also a gestural act: a point of touch, an action that marks the intangible physical reality of being in a moment and a suspension and presentation of this moment to the viewer.