Francis Upritchard

Kate MacGarry is pleased to announce Francis Upritchard’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring new figurative sculptures, ceramics, and fabric masks. Made for her recent show at Kunsthall Charlottenborg, 'Any Noise Annoys an Oyster', the works weave together subtle references and connections to mythology, antiquity and the natural world.

Francis Upritchard was born in 1976 in New Plymouth, New Zealand and lives and works in London and New Zealand. Upritchard’s work draws on figurative sculpture, blending references from literature to ancient sculptures, and burial grounds to science fiction. Her installations showcase a wide variety of materials; her distinctive figurative sculptures are made using polymer plastic, amorphous mythological figures in balata - a natural rubber, bronze dinosaurs, glass vessels and ceramic urns. ‘Upritchard questions how we construct a vision for the future through our fractured, partial and often conflicted understanding of the past. She creates a place where histories and archives can be viewed anew through playfully exploring aspects of partiality, misreading and uncanny coincidences. Upritchard’s mini worlds are anti-imperial and non-hierarchical - there is no dominant culture.’ Heather Galbraith.