THICK, STRETCHY, STICKY SPACE

An ambitious solo presentation by emerging interdisciplinary artist Fran Hayes, featuring digital paintings and video works that delve into speculative landscapes, inspired by damaged ecologies, science-fiction, and the uncanny; all viewed through a profoundly human lens. Stumbling into technotime you are confronted by amorphous energies, they are whispering sweet nothings - forgotten melodies, dark truths, hidden narratives - digital paintings spill from screens, illuminating elastic futures.

Fran Hayes is a multidisciplinary artist based in London working predominantly in Blender, an open-source 3D modelling software, expanding into writing, sculpture and installation. Fran creates speculative landscapes and immersive environments that explore damaged ecologies, science-fiction and the uncanny through a fundamentally human lens.

Fran graduated from a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2022, and has exhibited locally and internationally, most recently in collaboration with Ika Schwander for Rooms Festival, Maastricht, The Netherlands in January 2024. She has also organised and curated exhibitions including ‘through the eyes of a pigeon’ (2023) in Cape Town, South Africa, for which she made a collaborative installation with Nick Rushton, and ‘The Way We Were Tenderly’ (2023), London, with Alice Palm.

Other significant exhibitions include: Sluice Lisbon: Territory (2022), a group show in Lima, Peru (2020), and UnFabricated at DContemporary (2021). Fran collaborated with established multimedia artist Maggie Roberts to make the digital work ‘ADA’ whose first iteration has shown at IMT Gallery, GIANT Gallery and the London Art Fair 2022.