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Marking a new departure in her practice, Frances has focused on a collection of universally familiar pattern structures. Through a process of deconstructing and reconfiguring the component motifs, she has pushed into abstraction, exploring movement, space and colour. Frances explains:

“As I make the work I am thinking about change, uncertainty, shifting perspectives, finding ways to accept, embrace, and see the beauty in the unfixing of the familiar. Personal and universal themes.”

Capturing this in such a permanent material as ceramic holds an interesting tension. When developing the work …