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Francis Upritchard Feature Tour
Francis Upritchard Traveller’s Collection 2003. Mixed media. Collection Saatchi Gallery, London. Courtesy Kate MacGarry, London. Photo: Christian Capurro
Guided Tour
Past event
Meet at the front desk
Free
Take a free guided tour of Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs with one of our friendly, knowledgeable guides.
Tours last 45 minutes and there's no need to book. Meet at the front desk on the ground floor.
If you’re planning to join a tour and have a group of 12 or more people, please consider contacting us to arrange a private tour. We can organise a time that suits your group.
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Exhibition
Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs
16 July 2017
Exquisitely imagined, startlingly strange works by an internationally acclaimed New Zealand artist.
Collection
Francis Upritchard Wife
Francis Upritchard’s baboon-ish Husband and Wife are like animals from an imaginary zoo, though their expressions may have been borrowed from the human visitors who come to stare at the beasts. Husband, absorbed with his own cleverness, does not mind such attention; Wife seems less comfortable, cringing under the viewers’ gaze.
Based in London, Upritchard is a sculpture graduate (1998) from the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts. Since her first exhibition in London in 2000, she has shown in many different parts of the world.
(Beasts, 2015)
Collection
Francis Upritchard Husband
Francis Upritchard’s baboon-ish Husband and Wife are like animals from an imaginary zoo, though their expressions may have been borrowed from the human visitors who come to stare at the beasts. Husband, absorbed with his own cleverness, does not mind such attention; Wife seems less comfortable, cringing under the viewers’ gaze.
Based in London, Upritchard is a sculpture graduate (1998) from the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts. Since her first exhibition in London in 2000, she has shown in many different parts of the world.
(Beasts, 2015)
Interview
The Borrowings of Francis Upritchard
Arriving at the studio and home of Francis Upritchard on a Tuesday morning in East London, you’d hardly know she was opening a solo booth at Frieze Art Fair later that day, launching a fashion collaboration with Peter Pilotto the following day, and juggling studio visits and interviews throughout London’s hectic art-focused week. She’s the picture of tranquillity. The calm doesn’t last long though, as discussions of Christchurch’s rebuild, the Christchurch Art Gallery, our friends and memories are quickly interrupted by an escalating flurry of visitors and family dropping by and couriers collecting objects, packing crates, dropping off documents.