The exhibition posits the dream as a place of assemblage, one where fragmented memories from the day are re-experienced as distorted and incomplete layers, collaged together under the governance of dream logic. As we fall asleep, isolated images dissolve and play out as fictional scenes across abstract landscapes. The memory of the dream permeates the days that follow, and traces of these dreamt images layer on top of waking life.
Frances Pinnock makes intricate and multilayered works across sculpture, painting and works on paper. They encompass an array of subjects and references, amongst them psychological states, elements of dream, and the body, while retaining an intentional ambiguity. Loosely diaristic, they take the form of abstract vignettes, becoming a site for reflection and revisitation. Pinnock’s practice recurrently explores the interplay between the temporal and the material and between the conscious and the unconscious gesture.
Frances Pinnock (b, 1990, Bristol, UK) lives and works in London. She received her MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. Recent group exhibitions include FOG Design+Art, San Francisco, USA, 2025; Ingram Prize, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, UK, 2024; This Country, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK, 2024; TEFAF Maastricht, NL, 2024; Cut and Fold, Make Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK, 2023; Material Beings, Cromwell Place, London, UK, 2023; Hung, Drawn & Quartered, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK, 2023. In 2024 Pinnock was awarded the Ingram Prize. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Accoutrements & Illuminations, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, UK, 2025 and Light Sleeper, Lightbox Gallery, Woking, UK, 2025.
