Francis Upritchard
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Any Noise Annoys an Oyster
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Any Noise Annoys an Oyster
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Here Comes Everybody, 2022
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Reach, 2022
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Paper, Creature, Stone, 2022
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A Loose Hold, 2022
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Swamp Creature, 2022
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Brilliant Italian Idea, 2022
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Psychic Pusher, 2022
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Hurrying Sisyphus, 2021
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Waving, not Drowning, 2022
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Camouflage, 2020
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Eels in Mud, 2021
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Four Armed Figure for Yoga, 2020
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Polyphemus Carpet, 2022
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Hatched Glass, 2022
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Exercises for Ascent, 2021
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Orange Love, 2021
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2017
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A Hand of Cards, 2012
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Children's Commission, 2014
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Moon Monkey and Dancing Monkey Urn, 2016
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Potato Poem, 2013
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Save Yourself, 2009
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Sun Cabinet, 2010
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Traveller’s Collection, 2003
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Wetwang Slack, 2018
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Wetwang Slack; table 2, 2018
Francis Upritchard was born in 1976 in Ngāmotu / New Plymouth, Aotearoa / New Zealand and lives and works in London and Aotearoa / New Zealand. Upritchard’s work draws on figurative sculpture, blending references from literature to ancient sculptures, and burial grounds to science fiction. Her installations showcase a wide variety of materials; her distinctive figurative sculptures are made using polymer plastic, amorphous mythological figures in balata - a natural rubber, bronze dinosaurs, glass vessels and ceramic urns. ‘Upritchard questions how we construct a vision for the future through our fractured, partial and often conflicted understanding of the past. She creates a place where histories and archives can be viewed anew through playfully exploring aspects of partiality, misreading and uncanny coincidences. Upritchard’s mini worlds are anti-imperial and non-hierarchical - there is no dominant culture.’ Heather Galbraith.
Solo exhibitions include Sing Siren, Kate MacGarry, London (2025); Any Noise Annoys an Oyster, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024); A Loose Hold, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2022); Wetwang Slack, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK (2022); Surf’n’Turf, Kate MacGarry, London, UK (2022); Paper, Creature, Stone, Christchurch Art Gallery, Aotearoa / New Zealand (2022); Big Fish Eat Little Fish, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium (2020); Francis Upritchard, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2014); Potato Poem, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan (2013); A Long Wait, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Ohio (2012) and A Hand of Cards, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2012).
Francis Upritchard was selected by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to undertake a large-scale commission, Here Comes Everybody, unveiled in 2022 outside the Naala Badu building at the new Sydney Modern, Australia. Her installations Save Yourself and Viva Arte Viva represented Aotearoa / New Zealand in the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) and the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) respectively. Other group exhibitions include DAUWRAUW: A Bruegelian Landscape, Bornem Castle, Bornem, Belgium (2024); The Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2023); The Inner Island, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France (2023); Human Conditions of Clay, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2022); A Thousand Doors, collaboration between NEON and Whitechapel Gallery, The Gennadius Library, Athens, Greece (2014) and Lilliput, New York High Line, New York, USA (2012).
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Francis Upritchard
Sing Siren 6 June - 12 July 2025 -
Francis Upritchard
Surf ‘n’ Turf 13 May - 11 June 2022 -
Things That Soak You
Laura Aldridge, Rana Begum, Francis Upritchard, Bethan Laura Wood 2 June - 15 July 2017 -
Francis Upritchard
14 March - 26 April 2014 -
Francis Upritchard
Echo 7 September - 16 October 2011 -
Feierabend
Francis Upritchard, Martino Gamper, Karl Fritsch 16 January - 22 February 2009 -
Francis Upritchard
22 September - 28 October 2006 -
Diamonds for Workers
Anat Ben David & Jet, Josh Blackwell, Chicks on Speed, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Alexander Petlura, Francis Upritchard, Karl Fritsch 3 June - 10 July 2005 -
Francis Upritchard
5 June - 13 July 2003
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Francis Upritchard
Monkeys and Sloth 2014Boardbook, 13 pagesRead more
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery and Garden Press on the occasion of the exhibition: Francis Upritchard: Do What You Will
ISBN: 978-085488-231-1
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Francis Upritchard
Save Yourself Jenny Harper, Rhana Devenport, Francesco Manacorda, Melanie Oliver, 2009Hardcover, 104 pagesRead more
Publisher: Francis Upritchard, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth District Council, New Plymouth, New Zealand
ISBN: 9780908848348
Dimensions: 16 x 22.5 cm -
Francis Upritchard
A Loose Hold 2022Hardcover, 112 pagesRead more
Publisher: Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart & Dent-De-Leone
ISBN: 978-1-907908-76-7
Dimensions: 26.5 x 22 cm
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Francis Upritchard, Any Noise Annoys an Oyster, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
28 September 2024 – 16 February 2025 27 September 2024Presenting more than 100 works, Any Noise Annoys an Oyster is Francis Upritchard's first Scandinavian exhibition. Upritchard references ancient art, folklore, 20th century European sculpture...Read more -
Francis Upritchard: DAUWRAUW: A Bruegelian Landscape, Bornem Castle, Belgium
30 June - 30 September 2024Francis Upritchard's Swamp Creature (2022) and Inhabited Stone (2024), are included in DAUWRAUW: A Bruegelian Landscape at the Castle Estate Marnis de Sainte Aldegonde in...Read more -
Francis Upritchard: Here Comes Everybody at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Opened 3 December 2022The transformation of the Art Gallery of New South Wales – the Sydney Modern Project – opens to the public from 3 December 2022. Three...Read more
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Art Basel
Rana Begum, Marcus Coates, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Dawn Ng, Renee So & Francis Upritchard 13 - 16 June 2024Booth L3Read more -
Frieze London
Peter Liversidge, Goshka Macuga, Peter McDonald, Florian Meisenberg, Grace Ndiritu, Dawn Ng and Francis Upritchard 11 - 15 October 2023 -
Art Basel | Art Basel Unlimited
Chou Yu-Cheng, Marcus Coates, Goshka Macuga, Lisa Milroy and Francis Upritchard 15 - 18 June 2023Kate MacGarry is delighted to be participating in Art Basel Unlimited 2023 with a work by Francis Upritchard.Read more -
Art Basel
Rana Begum, Helen Cammock, Goshka Macuga & Francis Upritchard 16 - 19 June 2022