'SOLVE ET COAGULA' BY FRANCES JOHNSTON

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‘SOLVE ET COAGULA’ by Frances Johnston

Official Opening- Saturday 19th of July, 6-8pm.

Frances Johnston is an emerging artist working primarily with acrylic and aerosol paint to create expressive, raw works that encapsulate the art-making process as a means to process and give shape to her inner world. Utilising a vibrant palette, with fluoro pink her signature colour, her works exude the emotional intensity of one reckoning with a shifting inner landscape of rage and resistance, sensuality and fearlessness.

For Frances, the surface of the painting provides a two-dimensional space through which she can physically “work through” complex experiences like past traumas and grief. Through reiterative mark-making her chosen materials accumulate to encapsulate and document the process of this emotional labour. Through this intuitive process of painting, both artist and artwork navigate toward a renewed and resolved state.

“I make art to process my inner world. My mind, my mental illness, trauma, passions, secrets, memories, longing, and grief. The final piece cumulates into a bright thread of hope, built out of darkness.”

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