Francis Upritchard
Works
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Orange Love, 2021
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Purple People Piles, 2021
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The Mother and Children, 2021
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Big Crab, 2020
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Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy, 2019
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Murlongo Mountain Jar, 2018
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Pruitt Igoe, 2018
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Shy Japanese Octopus, 2018
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Stretching Long Legs Long Arms, 2018
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Wetwang Slack; table 2, 2018
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2017
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Makiko, 2016
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Moon Monkey and Dancing Monkey Urns, 2016
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Dark Side, 2015
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Children's Commission, 2014
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Potato Poem, 2013
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A Hand of Cards, 2012
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Sun Cabinet, 2010
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Save Yourself, 2009
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Traveller’s Collection, 2003
Biography
Francis Upritchard was born in 1976 in New Plymouth, New Zealand. She lives and works in London. '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 viewed anew through playfully exploring aspects of partiality, misreading, dodgy translations and uncanny coincidences. Upritchard’s mini worlds are anti-imperial and non-hierarchical - there is no dominant culture.’ Heather Galbraith.
Francis Upritchard has been selected by Art Gallery of New South Wales to undertake a large scale commission outside the new Sydney Modern. She is one of nine chosen artists making new works for the space to be realised in late 2022. Upritchard has a solo exhibition Paper, Creature, Stone at Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand that opened in April this year. Previous solo exhibitions include Big Fish Eat Little Fish, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium, 2020, Wetwang Slack at the Barbican Centre, London (2018-19), Centaurs and Sea Creatures, Ivan Anthony, Auckland, New Zealand (2018), Jealous Saboteurs, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand (2017), Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Australia (2016); and at the City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand (2016); The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2014); Potato Poem, the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (2013); Mandrake, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2013); A Hand of Cards, Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2012); Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, (2012). Francis Upritchard represented New Zealand in 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).
Press
Exhibitions
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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 -
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14 March - 26 April 2014 -
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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
Publications
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Francis Upritchard
Jealous Saboteurs 2016 Softcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne and City Gallery,Wellington
ISBN: 978-0-9945213-2-3
Dimensions: 20.3 x 14.8cm Read more -
Francis Upritchard
Save Yourself Jenny Harper, Rhana Devenport, Francesco Manacorda, Melanie Oliver, 2009 Read more -
Francis Upritchard
Every Colour by Itself 2018 Hardcover , 48 pages
Publisher: Dent-De-Leon, London
ISBN: 9780956188502
Dimensions: 18 x 11.7 cm Read more -
Francis Upritchard
Ears 2020 saddle stitched softcover book with inserted foil card and embossed cover, 28 pages
Publisher: Happy Dancer
ISBN: 978-1-8382113-0-1
Dimensions: 12.3 x 20.7 cm Read more
News
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Francis Upritchard at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Modern Project
14 April 2022The Art Gallery of New South Wales will launch its expansion - the Sydney Modern Project - later this year. Francis Upritchard has been commissioned...Read more -
Francis Upritchard: Paper, Creature, Stone at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, New Zealand
2 April – 7 August 2022 2 April 2022Pushing a stone up a hill alone is no fun. Francis Upritchard’s new installation at Christchurch Art Gallery recalls the solitary punishment endured by Sisyphus...Read more
Events
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Art Basel
Rana Begum, Helen Cammock, Goshka Macuga & Francis Upritchard 16 - 19 June 2022 -
Art Basel
JB Blunk, Goshka Macuga, John Smith, Patricia Treib, Francis Upritchard 13 - 16 June 2019 -
Art Basel
Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Francis Upritchard, B. Wurtz 14 - 17 June 2018 -
Frieze Art Fair London
Solo presentation with Francis Upritchard 6 - 9 October 2016