Wallflower
Found Photography and Mixed Media, 2019
Frances Willoughby
Found photographs provoke unanswerable questions. These strangers represent faded memories, an anonymous snapshot into another reality. Undefined and malleable their past unknown, they enable new narratives to be woven. These images have become an inexplicit memorial, conveying a sense of fragmentation and loss.
I am a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes sculpture, installation, and collage. My work is figurative and aims to distort our preconceptions of the familiar through the manipulation of nostalgic objects and traditional feminine craft. Sewing and textiles play a large part in the creation of my mixed media soft-sculptures. Within this series, I have adapted toy patterns to create life-sized female bodies which draw on my fascination with dolls. These self-contained forms are autobiographical and stem from relationships, anxiety, and conflict.
