Frances Sullivan-Rhodes

Biography

Frances Sullivan-Rhodes is an artist of the Peel region, originally from the UK. Fran completed a MA in Contemporary Visual Art at Falmouth College of Arts in 2002 and went on to teach art history, theory and practice at Curtin University for 16 years. She has also taught in the vocational sector, delivering painting workshops at Kidogo Arthouse for several years and more recently undertaking the role of facilitator for Mixed Palette in Rockingham. She has also delivered series of lectures on art and ideas at CASM and Fremantle Art Centre. She has exhibited in England, Eire, China and Australia over the past 30 years. Fran recently won the Mandurah 9x5 painting prize (2024).

Awards

2024
Mandurah 9x5

Artist Statement

Fran's practice spans painting, photography, sculpture, installation and curation. Her works are a portrait of motherhood and childhood, springing from observing her children's playful and inquisitive engagement with nature. An interest in the Sublime and the Uncanny shapes her painting, with fragments of imagery emerging and receding in the painted surface.