Sam Francis














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// ARTIST  // PROJECT MAKER  // 
// GARDENING  //  WRITING //



“that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name” - Alice Meynell

 I am an interdisciplinary artist and project maker based in North Somerset, working at the crossroads of art, ecology, and social engagement. Rooted in wild places and everyday spaces, my often collaborative practice explores our relationships with the natural and more-than-human world. Themes of ritual, liminality, aloneness, traces, and connection run through my work, guided by an eco-feminist perspective and a deep attention to the evolving ecologies that interweave all things.

I work across a range of mediums—including film, photography, writing, audio, print, textiles, and plant-based materials—embracing deep engagement and responsiveness to context as central to my experimental, process-led approach.

C.V HERE “Sam Francis does not make work about an engagement with the natural environment so much as she investigates the slippage of language, the meaning in between meanings which have been attached to the outdoors. In conversation, the written textual form, and via field recordings,                    photography, film, print and fabric, she is all about the drift, the unintentional discoveries of the            explorer who is deliberately and joyously lost. For her there is little difference between the                      remnant wild flower meadow, the weed-cracked concrete of our post industrial landscapes, and            musty archival box. And no different perhaps between the dust between brittle documents and              the garden soil under her fingernails.


From herein tired colonial notions of psychogeography are rejected and that abrasive masculine         ordering is replaced with something like Jouissance; that almost resistant to translation                       understanding of female giving, intimacy, hospitality, generosity. In the trips and forays the                   reader, listener, and the viewer make with her, nobody is made to feel unwelcome or outside of             any given landscape, instead all are invited to piece nature together from the small intimate                 clues which our host and guide provides.

Articulated through small vignettes, interwoven narratives, summoned words, collected sounds,         discrete interventions, and, yes, gathered berries, twigs and leaves, what is suggested is a spirit         of place which far from being a definite surveyed and measured destination, a pinprick or circle             on an OS map, is a location in flux that provides yet another point of departure, questioning, and         healthy uncertainty.” - Sean Prentice