Over the past 25 years Frances Law has investigated the intrinsic balance between nature and culture using her own archaeology, memory and intuition at the cornerstone of her inquiry. Since the early 80's to the present her work has undergone a series of transformations each renewal revitalizing her research and yielding up deeply provocative imagery. From her large expressive paintings of the early 90's to her more recent ethereal shell works Frances Law invites us to question our own relationship with the natural world and the emotional energy that lies therein.

Her recent work increasingly exposes the inherent conjunction between human and environment through mixed media, found objects and text. Investigating past cultures through the manufacture of archaeological finds and juxtaposing these fabricated relics with nature's own discarded remains Frances Law makes available a window in which to view and examine the ageless tensions and harmony indigenous to our island race.

Born in Scotland in 1958, Frances Law's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally. In 2007 her work was represented at the Qi Bashi International Arts Festival in China as part of a Scottish/Chinese cultural exchange. She has won several major awards and prizes including 1st prize winner of the Scottish National Art Prize in 2008.

For the past fifteen years, Frances Law has worked in further and higher education and with community arts programmes throughout Scotland. Learning to see and to change perspectives through the act of drawing are issues which repeatedly embody the philosophy behind her work as an educator. In many ways each aspect of her work informs the other.

She is currently working on a collaboration with Scottish writer Kenneth Steven.