Fran Hayes
b. 1999, Dorchester
Fran Hayes is a multimedia artist whose practice interrogates the digital and the physical and the relationships that form in the spaces in between. Influenced by science-fiction, real world issues such as ecological breakdown and the consequences of capitalism, and everyday occurrences from conversations to music, we see these references seep into Fran’s practice which ranges from 3D modelling and animating to ceramics and writing.
Most recently Fran has been working with IMT Gallery and LUVA Gallery, both based in East London. Through her work with IMT, Fran has been collaborating with artist Maggie Roberts, also a Blender artist among many other things, to create a piece that symbolises the rebrand that IMT is currently undergoing. The piece will be exhibited at Metabolic Market: A Dimensionally Diabolical Department at GIANT, Bournemouth, the UK’s largest artist-run space outside of London, opening on the 23rd September 2021.
Concerned more with process and play than with outcome, Fran uses the space of Blender, a free and open-source 3D modelling program as the main platform for her making. Blender offers the experimentation and freedom for the artist to produce in an intuitive way, allowing unique and amorphous forms to be birthed.
Fran carves, moulds, and sculpts digital clay to create systems whose identities are currently unknown. By playing with scale, what appears to be a landscape morphs into a creature, an ecosystem, a world, or a hybrid of all these things. The anonymity of the subjects of Fran’s work is important, as to over analyse what you are experiencing would be to detract from the magic and mystique of the work while simultaneously feeding the ever present human need to categorise and understand. Why not just let be what is?
Works For Sale
‘Limp Jelly Fingers Caress Candy Coloured Skin’