Frances Bloomfield lives and works in Brighton. Following the completion of her degree in Fine Art from Ravensbourne College of Art she exhibited at several galleries including Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Art Net and also at Documenta VI as a guest of Joseph Beuys. Alongside this she has worked as a freelance graphic designer with a wide and varied range of clients.
Recently she designed the typography for a new public art piece in Ebbw Vale. She lectured in graphic design in London for several years at Sir John Cass School of Art & Design and the University of the Arts.
During the last 5 years Frances Bloomfield has created a significant body of work, which she has exhibited widely. Her work has been selected for the curated Brighton Festival exhibitions at the Regency House and the Brighton Dome. Her work was also selected for East Sussex Open 2013 held at The Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. 2012 began with a solo show at the Trinity Gallery, Tunbridge Wells and was quickly followed by group shows in Brighton, Rye, Bristol and London.
Inspiration for the work comes from an eclectic range of sources: industrial ruins, geometry and wiring diagrams, detritus from the sea shore, unusual found objects and various texts including writing from R.D.Laing and Italo Calvino. Her work explores the layered narratives of dreams and the ‘improbable’ scenarios that we unconsciously construct. The depth and complexity of Frances Bloomfield’s dreamboxes offer the viewer a rich landscape for reflection. Curious juxtapositions of elements challenge familiar meanings and open up new dialogues in a variety of settings – rural, industrial and most recently ‘domestique’.
This quote from Paul Auster’s novel – Man in the Dark (2008) clearly expresses the main concerns of the work:
“There’s no single reality...there are many realities. There’s no single world. There are many worlds, and they all run parallel to one another, worlds and anti-worlds, worlds and shadow-worlds, and each world is dreamed or imagined or written by someone in another world. Each world is the creation of a mind.”
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