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Francesca Dolor
Blood4Blood
18.07.2022 – 29.08.2022
Blood4Blood is a presentation of 5 paintings made by Francesca Dolor during their research period at Overmorrow House. Overmorrow House is an offsite programme of artist’s studio based research in Battle, East Sussex. Home of the Battle of Hastings 1066. Exploring how artists engage with new histories and new geographies within their practice. Overmorrow House asks artists to consider the potential of the day after tomorrow as a proposition for new production within their studio practice.
Francesca Dolor (b. 1990) is based in London and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2019. Dolor received the Jerwood Painting Fellowship in 2015, which allowed them to have touring shows in the UK between 2016-17. Recent group exhibitions include ‘Bathing Nervous Limbs’ (2021), Arusha gallery, Edinburgh and ‘Emotional Frequencies’(2021), Imlabor, Tokyo.
In 2020 they presented a solo show ‘Daisies’ at imlabor in Tokyo, Japan, as well as publishing a zine and calendar Wild, Wild Wenches, which was supported by Arts Council England. Previously they had two solo shows in London with Barbican Arts Trust and the Horse Hospital, as well as group shows in the U.K, Canada and Mexico. Their work is held in numerous private collections. They co-host a monthly show called ‘music to verb to’ on community radio station rtm.fm.
Dolor produces paintings, sculpture and drawings of text/image panoramas. Their work is concerned with areas of extremity to form a type of psychic self-surgery. Their paintings and drawings are formed of self-automated internal subject matter, which explore internal landscapes and architectures, ideas of subversion, as well as the subconscious.
Overmorrow: (noun) the day after tomorrow. Histories in the near future.