SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005   Threshold Arts Space, Perth

2004   Birnam Arts Centre

2003   Circle Gallery, Edinburgh

2002   SNH Battleby, Redgorten

2001   Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar

2000   Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington

1996   Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

1994   Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld

1991   McKechnie Institute, Girvan

1990   Pearce Institute, Glasgow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Fleming Collection, London
Sheridan Russell Gallery, London
Battersea Arts Fair, London
SSA Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
PVAF, Encounters with event, Crannog Centre, Killin,Threshold Artspace, Perth

2010
Aspect Prize exhibition, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery
Strathearn Gallery, Creiff
Lost Gallery, Strathdon
Perthshire Visual Arts Forum (PVAF), Birnam Arts Centre
Perthshire Open Studios (POS) Heartwood Art Trail

2009
PVAF, Scene 2, Threshold Arts Space, Perth
Lost Gallery, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire
POS Heartwood Art Trail
Green Gallery, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire
Strathearn Gallery, Creiff
Oathlaw Gallery, Forfar

2008
Lost Gallery Strathdon, Aberdeenshire
Fisher Gallery, Pittenweem
Oathlaw Gallery, Forfar
Strathearn Gallery, Creiff
POS

2007
Baishi festival, Xiantan University, Baishi Institute, Hunan Province, China
Earth Journeys, Birnam Arts Centre

2006
PVAF - Kaire-Desine print gallery Vilnius, Lithuania

2005
Just Scottish, Edinburgh
Lime, Glasgow

2004
St Leonord's Gallery, Edinburgh
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art Glasgow

2002
Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, Oxford

1999
A sense of identity, Dept. for International Development, East Kilbride
Gallery Forteviot, Perthshire

1998
Frames Gallery, Perth
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow

1997
Angus College, Arbroath
Royal Glasgow Institute, McClelland Gallery, Glasgow
SSAC, RSA, Edinburgh
Fish Art Exhibition, Blackcombe Art Gallery, Cork
N.S. Gallery, Glasgow
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
London International Art Fair, Duncan Millar Fine Art, London

1995
Scottish Artists, Adam Gallery, Bath
Scottish Painters on a Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Compass Gallery, Glasgow

1993
Paperworks, Seagate Gallery, Dundee

1992
Paperworks, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
Compass Gallery, Glasgow

1988
Royal Glasgow Institute, McClelland Gallery, Glasgow
Scottish Painters, Thumb Gallery, London

1987
Art for Nicaragua, Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow Artists, Transmissions Gallery, Glasgow
Main Fine Art, Glasgow

1986
Self Portraits, Main Fine Art, Glasgow

1985
Glasgow Woman Artists, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Glasgow/Nurnburg Twinning, Kunsthalle, Nurnburg
Local Heroes, Fine Art Society, Glasgow

1981
Young Europeans, Johan Marcus Gallery, Amsterdam

1980
Young Generation, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Visual Impact, Saint Enoch Centre, Glasgow

AWARDS

2010      Short listed artist for the Aspect Prize
2008      Scottish National Art Competition First Prize
2005      Perth and Kinross Council/Scottish Arts Council Artist's Award
2000      Scottish Arts Council Combined Arts Award
1996      Angus Artist Exhibition First Prize
1990      South Square Trust Award
1989      Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Award

WORK IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Scotus College, Glasgow
Angus Council
Angus College
Glasgow School of Art
Private Collections in Scotland, England, Holland, France and USA

MEDIA COVERAGE

2010
Renfrewshire Community website:
www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/ilwwcm/publishing.nsf/Content/ce-PressAspectPrizeShortlist

Culture 24:
www.culture24.org.uk/art/painting+%26+drawing/art79528

Forfar Dispatch:
www.brechinadvertiser.co.uk/latest-arts/FRANCES-HAS-RIGHT-ASPECT-FOR.6382587.jp

Art Knowledge news:
www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-06-12-00-21-14-scotlands-answer-to-the-turner-prize-announces-shortlist.html

PAR+RS:
www.publicartscotland.com:80/reflections/38

Eleanor Howie: Heartlands FM 28 July 1994
Neil Mudie: 'Reporting Scotland' BBC Television, 7 September 1990
Maureen Devitt: 'Flash of Inspiration puts Lighthouse Families in Focus', Glasgow Herald, 2 October 1990
Clare Henry: 'Review ' Glasgow Herald, 28 September 1990
Clare Flowers: 'Sentimental Journey to the Lighthouse', Scotland on Sunday, 9 September 1990
Eleanor Ironside: 'Flashbacks to Heydays of Lighthouses', Sunday Times, 23 September 1990
Ian Black: 'A Vanishing Species Captured in Oil', Glasgow Herald, 3 September 1990
Clare Henry: 'Following in the Footsteps of Rembrandt', Glasgow Herald, May 1986
Clare Henry: Imaginative Impact from Graduates', Glasgow Herald, 17 July 1980

PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES

'Seeing and Drawing' LEAD Scotland Conference, Hilton Hotel, Dunkeld, April 2002
'The Art of Drawing using the Right Side of the Brain' - Dumfries and Galloway Arts Society, 1998
'Making Ways for Northern Lights' Artists Newsletter, June 1992

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE

2009 - Perth College Contemporary Arts Practice visiting lecturer

2008 - Working in Primary Schools in Perth and Kinross with cultural coordinators and active school workers creating installations for school corridors

Working with Angus Motivators mental health garden project

2006 - 2009 Part-time lecturer Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee University

2006 - Public Art Commission to provide a site specific art work for the Dundonald Occupational Therapy Centre, Dundee

2004 - present - Lead Artist ST/ART Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust

Drawing tutor - portfolio preparation Perth & Kinross Council

2003 - 2007 - Artist in residence Stroke Unit Stracathro Hospital

2003 - present - Workshop facilitator working on a number of projects and festivals with Angus Arts and Perth & Kinross Council Arts Service

2002 - 2003 - Part-time portfolio tutor Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Dundee University

Artist working with Stroke Stracathro Hospital, Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust

2002 - Workshop facilitator working on a number of projects with Angus Arts and Perth and Kinross Council Arts Service

2001 - Exploring Memory - collaboration with Brian Macabe writer in residence, A.K.Bell library plus a series of workshops for adults with Perth & Kinross Council Arts Service

Art Gym, series of residences working in partnership with Angus Council Community Learning

2000 - 2002 - Part-time lecturer Perth College

2000 - Arts Advocacy Project, Seagate Gallery, Dundee

Various Drawing projects with Perth & Kinross Arts Service

1998 - 1999 - Various Drawing Workshops with Perth & Kinross Council Arts Service

A Sense of Belonging - one week creative workshop, Isle of Iona

Young McManus, Drawing Workshops, McManus Gallery, Dundee

Drawing Workshops, Gracefield Arts Centre. Dumfries and Galloway

TRAINING

2002
SVQ Units - Facilitate Learning in Groups through Presentation and Activities
                   - Facilitate Learning through Demonstration and Instruction
Artlink Central - Prison Skills and Mental Health Awareness