Frances Stanfield. www.francesstanfield.com

Frances is a co-founder of LDG and an artist whose practice is rooted in drawing and printmaking. She has recently shown at The Ra Summer Exhibition 2021. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2019,2020 &2021 and a Solo Show at Deptford Contemporary 2021. She is the author of two books - The Drawing Ideas Book and The Printmaking Ideas Book which can be found in most major UK bookshops and online including the Tate bookshop, Waterstones and Foyles.

Frances studied Illustration at University College Falmouth after her Foundation Degree at Portsmouth University. She completed The Drawing Intensive Scholarship with The Royal Drawing School and worked as a Restoration Artist alongside maintaining her own practice. Frances ‘ work plays with ideas of power-play around gender, sexuality and the presentation of imagery made for public consumption.

You can see more of this work on her instagram @frances.stanfield or website: www.francesstanfield.com

Her first exhibition with London Drawing Group was called "Porn on Pause" at Lewisham Arthouse. “ After showing this work and sharing ideas and reactions, 'Porn on Pause' has led me to thinking about the wider picture of intimacy and the online - how people choose to connect with others through alternate realities and the effect of this on tangible relationships and our sense of self. Does it disconnect us from our day to day relationships or offer freedom to further individual exploration? Does it distort ideas of intimacy or enhance and intensify it?"

@frances.stanfield