Fran Gordon
- Work
- Biography
As a visual artist, my practice questions technology via the medium of printmaking. I am interested in how we relate to an ever-invasive digital world. The artwork I make uses many materials: collage, print, painting, digital screenshots, found imagery and sculpture. Printmaking forms a frame for questioning to explore the very themes of the process: appropriation, reproduction, layering and the multiple.
Education
Royal College of Art
MA Print
Awarded Distinction for Dissertation
2015 - 2017
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Communication Design
Awarded distinction for Extended Critical Journal
2010 - 2014
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Collage + Print Works, Stallan-Brand, Glasgow
2016 Mediation, on the other hand, is a control function, Little Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2015 You will recognise its various parts, Project Space 1, The Art School, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions
2024 Dookit Print Show, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2020 Inexhaustible Well, Ltd Ink Corporation, Edinburgh
2019 Art School Film Club, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2019 Hot Sheet, The Department Store, Brixton, London
2018 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
2018 Acts of the Plough, Art Licks Weekend, London
2017 Make_Shift, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2017 Super Super, Kingsgate Project Space, London
2017 Royal College of Art Show, London
2017 Freshly Squeezed, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2016 RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
2016 Break Link //, Southwark Park Galleries , London
2016 Swab Stairs, Diagonale Metro Station, Barcelona
2015 Stargazing, Orkney's Art Graduates,The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
2014 Project Ability Silent Auction, Project Ability, Trongate 103, Glasgow
2014 Communication Design Degree Show, Rochelle School, London
2014 Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2014 Work In Progress Show, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow
Residencies
2016 Scottish Sculpture Workshop AiR Programme, Lumsden
2016 Mara/Laing Exchange Programme, UoC, Canada
2015 MANY Studios Graduate Residency, Glasgow
2014 Hospitalfield Arts Graduate Residency, Arbroath
Awards
2018 Shortlisted, Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2017 Shortlisted, Artagon.III
2017 YLCE Award
2017 The Printing Charity Award
2016 Print Futures Award
2016 Swab Stairs Barcelona, RCA Winner
2014 Shortlisted for People of Print Graduate Print Awards
Features
2017 a-n on Royal College of Art Show
2014 Creative Review, Talent Spotters: Glasgow School of Art
2014 Meet The Volunteers Project Ability
Royal College of Art
MA Print
Awarded Distinction for Dissertation
2015 - 2017
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Communication Design
Awarded distinction for Extended Critical Journal
2010 - 2014
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Collage + Print Works, Stallan-Brand, Glasgow
2016 Mediation, on the other hand, is a control function, Little Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2015 You will recognise its various parts, Project Space 1, The Art School, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions
2024 Dookit Print Show, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2020 Inexhaustible Well, Ltd Ink Corporation, Edinburgh
2019 Art School Film Club, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2019 Hot Sheet, The Department Store, Brixton, London
2018 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
2018 Acts of the Plough, Art Licks Weekend, London
2017 Make_Shift, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2017 Super Super, Kingsgate Project Space, London
2017 Royal College of Art Show, London
2017 Freshly Squeezed, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2016 RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
2016 Break Link //, Southwark Park Galleries , London
2016 Swab Stairs, Diagonale Metro Station, Barcelona
2015 Stargazing, Orkney's Art Graduates,The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
2014 Project Ability Silent Auction, Project Ability, Trongate 103, Glasgow
2014 Communication Design Degree Show, Rochelle School, London
2014 Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2014 Work In Progress Show, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow
Residencies
2016 Scottish Sculpture Workshop AiR Programme, Lumsden
2016 Mara/Laing Exchange Programme, UoC, Canada
2015 MANY Studios Graduate Residency, Glasgow
2014 Hospitalfield Arts Graduate Residency, Arbroath
Awards
2018 Shortlisted, Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2017 Shortlisted, Artagon.III
2017 YLCE Award
2017 The Printing Charity Award
2016 Print Futures Award
2016 Swab Stairs Barcelona, RCA Winner
2014 Shortlisted for People of Print Graduate Print Awards
Features
2017 a-n on Royal College of Art Show
2014 Creative Review, Talent Spotters: Glasgow School of Art
2014 Meet The Volunteers Project Ability
- Fran Gordon
- Installation View, RCA Show
- Printmaking
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- Skin on skin on strata
- Collage
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- A horizon merges and submerges
- Collage
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- There's something between us
- Collage
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- Digital Prints, Triptych
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- Jesmonite series, Inexhaustible Well
- Casting
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- Work in progress, 2025
- Collage
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- Work in progress, 2025
- Collage
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