Francesca Mollett

Francesca Mollett, born in 1991 in Bristol, received her MA in Painting in 2020 from the Royal College of Art London, having previously studied at the Royal Drawing School and Wimbledon College of Art, London (UK).

Mollett makes abstract paintings that react to space and context and that attend to the elusive relationship between life and time. In many of her paintings organic subjects are rendered so their defining details of difference dissolve into new yet familiar forms. Through careful balance of specificity and abstraction, Mollett’s practice invites us into spaces of suggestion, understanding, and candid encounter.

Critic and curator Tom Morton has described Mollett as “an artist whose work argues for her medium’s necessity, for painting’s unique ability to illuminate those delicate, often hidden aspects of the world that would otherwise remain dark … Moved by painting’s ability to foster an exchange with a viewer and deconstruct their preconceptions, the artist connects us to the brilliant and spectral patterns of life we often miss in the realm of the quotidian”.

Mollett has exhibited internationally including at CICA Vancouver (CA); Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US); Sim Smith, London (UK); Lee Eugean Gallery, Seoul (KR); L.U.P.O. Lorenzelli Projects, Milan, (IT); The approach, London (UK); Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US) and Saatchi Gallery, London (UK). The artist’s work is held in the permanent collection of  the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US); He Art Museum, Guangdong Province (CN); Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL (US); K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (HK); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Pond Society, Shanghai (CN); the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX (US) and The Roberts Institute of Art, London (UK).