WAITING ROOM

FRAN BURDEN | Draft Notation

March 5 - April 7, 2023

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"My work explores how process, repetition and making can be purposeful and adaptable. As part of an ongoing investigation into the convergence of Fine Art and Craft practices, there is particular emphasis on the potential for finished pieces to be useful or functional.

Squared canvas is used strategically to control and limit the marks made. Likewise, the coloured threads are already determined by the manufacturer. These restrictions are starting points to explore the systems inherent in fabric structure and surface patterning. The accumulation of small individual units, marks and offsets that make sense the more they are repeated.

Current work considers both functional and highly decorative cloth types, and uses historic textile samples, pattern books and weaving drafts to explore surface and pattern language.

The works shown here are part of an ongoing series that are made to the size of commercial fabric samples and offer an idea of a larger whole or an unending repeat. Additionally, I have been researching the names given to colours and patterns which have an impact on how they could be perceived or used.

The ‘Collar ‘ series expands on the idea of potential uses of cloth, an approximation of clothing, how pattern works when folded and shaped." -FB

Fran Burden (b.1964 ) West Yorkshire, UK.

Fran Burden studied Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art ( 1983-1986) and for a Higher Diploma in painting at the Slade School of Art in London (1986 – 1988 )

She has exhibited in group shows in UK, most recently in ‘Notes For a Landscape ‘ at Kingsgate Project Space, London 2022 ; ‘The Studio at 4am', Hastings Contemporary, Sussex 2020. Previously, she has shown work at Danielle Arnaud and Tintype galleries, The Jerwood Drawing Prize and The Whitechapel Open, all in London.

She lives and works in West Yorkshire, England.