Kay Frances

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Art2Muse, Sydney, ‘Whose land is it anyway,’ acrylic on linen
2005
/6 Sculpture garden exhibition, Mullumbimby, NSW
2005 Galeria Zero, Barcelona, acrylic on canvas
2004 Galeria Zero, Barcelona,
2004 Triaditiza, Sofia Town Hall,
The Passage Way, Sofia, New works,
2003 Sredetz Gallery, Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre, Sofia,
“Triaditiza” Sofia town hall paintings,
2002 Astry Gallery, Sofia, The Unseen in Scene
Triaditiza, Sofia town hall, works in acrylic, Ocean series,
2001 The Passage Way, Sofia, Bulgaria, Arrival
2001 The Shack, Cairo, Egypt,

Selected Group Exhibition

2010 Martin Galleries, Brisbane Group Show #1
2009 Still @ the centre, Waywood Gallery, Pan (Practising Artists’ Network)
2008 Still @ the centre, Waywood Gallery, Pan exhibition
Tweed Regional Art gallery, Border Art prize
2007 Waywood Gallery Byron Bay, ‘Smalls’ acrylic on canvas
In Good Company Artspace Byron Bay, acrylic on canvas
GoldCoast City Art Gallery Border Art prize exhibition
2006 Fehva art exhibition, Byron Bay
Waverley Art prize/exhibition, Sydney
Tweed Regional Art gallery, Border Art prize
2005 Cape Gallery, Byron Bay
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia (Border Art Prize)
2004 Galeria Zero, Barcelona,
2004 Frazier Museum, Louisville Kentucky, USA,
2004 Vratnica, Simce Nastovski, Macedonia, (Aug 2004)
Astry Gallery, Sofia, Fourth Christmas 30x30, works in acrylic
2003 Galeria Zero, Barcelona,
2003 Astry Gallery, Sofia, Third Christmas 30x30,
Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Foundation Heart of Gold,
Vladimir Dimitrov Gallery, Kyustendil, (Oct)
2002 Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Center Sofia,
2001 Astry Gallery, Sofia, First Christmas 30x30, acrylic on canvas

Art Projects

2005 Sculpture garden exhibition Mullumbimby, NSW; palms, acrylic paint, torn up canvas, wooden pegs
(created and exhibited in the Village of Cherminica, Bulgaria)
2003 Balkan Memories, sawdust, buttons, Baba’s (grandmother’s) old boots, bottles of preserves, mirror
2002 Village Totems, found wood pieces/branches various sizes, on carved wood stand beneath ‘teepee’ of branches
2002 Apples in Space, wire, apples, snow
2001 Food for thought, corn, beans, shipka (red berry)

Artist Colonies
2004 Museum of Tetovo,Macedonia(Aug 2004); International Women’s art colony Vratnica
2003 Kyustendil, Bulgaria, Valdimir Dimitriov Gallery, (Oct 2003); Second International art colony

Art Education

David D’Agostino, Master Classes, Cairo, Egypt 1998-1999
Margo Veillon, Cairo, Geneva, Studio Practice, 1999/2000
Tobias School of Art, East Grinstead, UK, Summer Classes, 2000

I am a contemporary visual artist, working from my home and studio in a coastal town in Northern N.S.W. Australia. Outside I create art projects/ephemeral installations, using what is around me – palm leaves, and other organic matter become ‘mysterious creatures’ that appear and disappear with the seasons etc......Inside (my studio), is an extension of outside and vice versa.

My work draws on the experiences of living in both Egypt and Bulgaria, and in 10 years I’ve held several solo exhibitions in Cairo, Sofia, Barcelona, Sydney and Brisbane. There is a freedom in being outside the confines of formal artistic practice, and yet my early teachers and mentors, left me with an innate desire to just go into my studio and work.