Frances Richardson was born in 1965, Leeds, UK and received her M.A. in Fine
Art Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London in 2006. Previous to this, she
studied for a B.A. (Hons) Fine Art at Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich. She
exhibits both nationally and internationally and her solo exhibitions include: Not even
nothing can be free of ghosts, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria and Standpoint
Gallery, London 2018, In Times Of Brutal Instability, Chiara Williams Contemporary
Art, London Art Fair 2018, Loss of object and bondage to it Fig.2, Bermondsey Square
Sculpture Commission, Vitrine Gallery, London 2015, and Ideas In The Making:
Drawing Structure, Trinity Contemporary, London 2011.
In 2017, Richardson was awarded the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award and Chiara
Williams Contemporary Art Solo Award and was nominated for the Max Mara Art
Prize for Women 2015–17 in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery.