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Fran Ifould artwork using desert tones

FRAN IFOULD

Research Based Artist, Printmaker, Educator

Creator of award winning, unique art, exploring environmental, social and cultural issues.

Fran Ifould (MAVA, ANU) is a multi award-winning artist thriving in rural Australia. Her professional career has spanned print-media and drawing, artists books, woodfired ceramics, natural dyes, traditional sign writing, public space murals, and community based workshop facilitation. 

Fran Ifould in a australian landscape

GALLERIES

Fran Ifould’s sensitive and dynamic work has achieved several accolades; featuring in the permanent collection in the Australian National Art Gallery, exhibited globally as far reaching as Peru, has won the Goulburn Art Prize, Manly Art Prize, and been shortlisted for the prestigious NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Art Prize.

Fran Ifould art book Footsteps in the Forest covers.jpg

WORKSHOP FACILITATION 

Experience and qualification to teach workshops in many aspects of art practice

In particular Fran welcomes the opportunity to teach in rural areas and is adept at Ink and Acrylic, Printmaking, Bookmaking, Ink Drawing, Natural Dying, Pokerwork, Woodblock as well as having successfully delivered workshops on Silk Screen Printing in rudimental conditions.

Braidwood
Arts- Residencies

Nestled on 16 acres on the edge of town, Braidwood Arts is a collection of buildings with views across the landscape to the eastern mountains of the Southern Tablelands. Ample architect designed accommodation, an etching press, workshops set in gardens with abundant wildlife, all makes for an ideal space for teaching or guests on artist residencies. We are off-grid, self-sufficient in power, water, and with wood heating in winter and ample summer swimming in the Lilly- clad dam on the property or in the nearby Shoalhaven River. 


Located in the southern tablelands of New South Wales, Braidwood is a picturesque town of significant heritage dating back to early 1800s. It is an hour from the National capital of Canberra, and hour from the beautiful beaches of the south coast, and two hours from the southern Alps of the snow fields. It has a significant artist population, with national and international talents calling it their home, enjoying galleries and food lover’s delights.

Braidwood arts residency
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"These works appear as an out-pouring of her thirst for new images of an ancient, fleeting, beauty in the land."

Cheryl Hannah,  FYRE GALLERY Braidwood NSW

“From my first meeting with Fran I knew that things of the landscape move her deeply as an artist and as an eco- environmentalist. Looking at her work for this show (WATER….water) I could feel that central to her sense of the land was the way it receives, holds and relinquishes water. Where it was dry, she shows its potential to be wet again; where it was wet she communicates the shimmer of drought never far away. Clearly her field studies over recent years have caused her to confront the possibility of endangered landscapes for herself as an artist.

Artistic endeavour is grounded in taking risks, in seeking fresh perspectives, in pushing an idea to, and sometimes past, its breaking point. WATER…water is a collection of Fran’s landscape works made by taking risks in the landscape. She has used her recent field locations as her studio. Water is her process as much, or even more, than it is her content in these works. It is possible to see how wet paper applied directly to found objects selected with her artist’s eye in some very remote places have delivered up delicious, serendipitous combinations of colour and texture.  In many of these works the paper can be perceived as a thin sculpture of the land itself, taking on both the feel and the fragility of land surfaces that are barely surviving. These works appear as an out-pouring of her thirst for new images of an ancient, fleeting, beauty in the land” 
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