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C. W. Francis is a Bristol-based artist who works in various media including silverpoint and pastel, watercolour and oil paint, as well as photographic film. He studied at the University of Brighton, receiving a first-class honours degree in Fine Art followed by a masters degree in Arts and Cultural Research.
Education
MRes Arts and Cultural Research, University of Brighton, 2016-2018
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Critical Practice, University of Brighton, 2013-2016. First Class Honours
Exhibitions
Clifton Arts Annual Summer Exhibition, Bristol, 2021
Perspectives, Waste House, University of Brighton, 2018
The Hogarth Press at 100, The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, 2017
Imaginative Investigations, University of Brighton, 2017
PARTITION, University of Brighton, 2016
The Open Art Market, Brighton Open Market, 2016
Chepstow Road Installed, Newport, 2016
BYSSO, University of Brighton, 2015
CRIME, Reading University, 2014
THIRD YEAR DEGREE SHOW, University of Brighton, 2013
End of year show, Bristol School of Art, 2013
As part of Young Arnolfini Artist Collective
Young Arnolfini Artist Collective Pop Up, Quakers Friars, Bristol, 2011
"Remove the ceiling so the sculpture can carry on...", Arnolfini, Bristol, 2011
Wake up and smell the dental floss, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2011
Artist in Residence
Arts Connect (Culture Shift), 2015-2016
Conference Talks
‘Toward a Vegan Aesthetic 2’ at the Doctoral College Forum, University of Brighton, May 2017
‘Toward a Vegan Aesthetic' at Imaginative Investigations, University of Brighton, March 2017
‘Utopia and wellbeing’ at Soundings and Findings: A Connected Communities Research Conference, University of East Anglia, July 2015
Pre-publication Chapter Reviewer
Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places (London: Routledge, 2017)
