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28/1/2012

After a particularly hard day a very welcome email dropped into my inbox informing me that I was to be the next Reside artist. Falling outside the remit of any other artists opportunity, this little gem has been passed to me with refreshingly few if any demands or criteria. It is up to me to shape it. I hope it will bestow on me the licence to carve out a little conceptual corner of my thinking, a room which I have not yet explored. I hope you will join me there.

And thankyou Corinna for your contribution to Reside, I wish you well in your work and look forward to commencing blogging from 1st February.

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Susan Francis is a Belfast born artist now living in the South of England

Assigning words to a process which, by it's nature endeavors to exist outside the borders of a textual medium will never be easy. I suppose, to use a literary metaphor, I see my work as a constant enquiry, an incomplete sentence, a phrase articulated through material, object and space. It is quiet work, a vocabulary of cast offs, objects, liquids and processes, at times unstable, prone to decay, but familiar to us all.

With influences ranging from Eva Hesse's organic minimilism to Watteau’s scenes of frivolous beauty tinged with wistful sadness, my work is often unashamedly poetic. Peering into the unspoken corners of our condition, I traverse a landscape shifting beneath us as the domestic enclave is infiltrated by a digitally connected world, where the ambiguity and at times falsity of relationships, truth and love languish in a vulnerable and fragile context.

At the core of my practice I suppose I wish to open a dialogue with myself, the space, the viewer – where others will take that conversation is for them to decide.

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