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Francis Upritchard (born 1976) is a New Zealand born artist living in London. Upritchard and Judy Millar, represented New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale.〔http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/arts-development-and-resources/international-programme/significant-international-events/new-zealand-at-the-venice-biennale〕 ==Life and career== Francis Upritchard was born in 1976 in New Plymouth, New Zealand. She graduated from the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts〔http://www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/fina〕 in 1998. That same year she moved to the UK where she lives and works.〔http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/francis_upritchard.htm〕〔http://www.katemacgarry.com/artists/francis-upritchard〕 In December 2001, the Bart Wells Institute was established by (Luke Gottelier ) and Francis Upritchard in a large East London squat. The Bart Wells Institute ran for about two years and exhibitions were curated by artists including Sam Basu, Brian Griffiths, David Thorpe and Harry Pye.〔http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/bart_wells_gang/〕 Upritchard was short-listed for the Becks Futures prize for an installation (exhibition ) from 2003 entitled ''Save Yourself''. A small mummy surrounded by funerary urns lay on the gallery floor vibrating and moaning. A packet of cigarettes tucked into its bandages, and a single glass eye was visible. In 2005 Upritchard had simultaneous shows in the (Andrea Rosen Gallery ) and Salon 94. The sculpture Torcello, Balata Figures and a selection of found objects were arranged over two large plinths. Sculptures of sloths, monkeys, orrerys and rocks. In 2005 she also won New Zealand's Walters Prize for art,〔http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/events/2006/september/the-walters-prize-2〕 after being shortlisted for her Artspace show 'Doomed, Doomed, All Doomed' in 2005.〔http://www.artspace.org.nz/exhibitions/2005/francisupritchard.asp〕〔http://www.webbs.co.nz/auction-item/brown-sloth-creature〕 It was announced in 2008〔http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/our-communities/503438/Two-artists-selected-for-Venice-Biennale〕〔http://govettbrewster.com/The-Gallery/Media-Releases/id/136/title/francis-upritchard-chosen-for-2009-venice-biennale〕 that Upritchard, along with Judy Millar, would be New Zealand's representatives at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Upritchard's installation was entitled (''Save Yourself'' ). This was Upritchard's first major international sculpture installation. Spread across three rooms in Fondazione Claudio Buziol Palazzo, three over-sized tables displayed the works Long, Lonely, and Dancers, with a melange of references to psychedelic culture, hippies, Pieter Bruegel the elder, and Erasmus Grasser. "I want to create a visionary landscape, which refers to the hallucinatory works of the medieval painters Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel, and simultaneously draws on the utopian rhetoric of post-sixties counterculture, high modernist futurism and the warped dreams of survivalists, millenarians and social exiles." Francis Upritchard.〔http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/arts-development-and-resources/international-programme/significant-international-events/new-zealand-at-the-venice-biennale#Francis〕〔http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/news/updated-coverage-on-new-zealand-s-venice-biennale-representation〕 Both Upritchard's and Millar's works were exhibited back in Wellington, at Te Papa Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in March 2010, and 'Dancers,'〔http://www.nzatvenice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Image-8-Francis-Upritchard-Save-Yourself-small.jpg〕 from 'Save yourself' was bought by the museum for its collections.〔http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2010/03/05/save-yourself-and-giraffe-bottle-gun〕 In the 2009 show Feierabend at Kate Macgarry, Upritchard exhibited with Karl Fritsch (jeweller), now resident in Island Bay, Wellington,〔http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=29477〕 and Italian furniture designer Martino Gamper,〔http://www.gampermartino.com〕 now resident in London. The show blended craft, design and the fine arts in a seamless way, to a point where the viewer became unsure of the authorship of each work. Gesumptkunsthandwerk at the Govett Brewster in the show 'Stealing the Senses' was a further exploration of this collaboration. The show was shown again later〔http://www.hamishmckaygallery.com/exhibitions/Gesamtkunsthandwerk_-_initiated_and_commissioned_by_the_Govett_Brewster_Art_Gallery_New_Plymouth/5 Hamish McKay gallery〕 in Wellington. This show included ceramics and bronzes made together by Fritsch, Gamper, and Upritchard, alongside sculptures and lamps by Upritchard, rings and ornaments by Fritch, furniture and ceramic bowls by Gamper.〔http://www.katemacgarry.com/exhibitions/-feierabend-francis-upritchard-martino-gamper-karl〕 Upritchard's first solo museum show in 2009 in Europe was at the Vienna Secession called ''In die Höhle'' (into the Cave). The show included works combining furniture and figurative sculptures referencing Sol LeWitt, Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze and Weiner Werkstatte.〔http://www.secession.at/art/2010_upritchard_e.html〕 Her second, at Nottingham Contemporary in 2012 was called 'A Hand of Cards.'〔http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/francis-upritchard〕 She was interviewed about her studio practice by The Independent at the time〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/in-the-studio-francis-upritchard-artist-8076688.html〕 Also in 2012, she exhibited at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, a show called, 'A Long Wait.'〔http://contemporaryartscenter.org/exhibitions/upritchard〕 In 2013 Upritchard's show 'Potato Poem'〔http://www.mimoca.org/en/exhibitions/2013/04/13/792/〕 was shown in MIMOCA museum, Marugame, Japan. Currently she is exhibiting at the Hammer Museum, UCLA University of California, Los Angeles〔http://dailybruin.com/2015/01/12/museum-review-hammer-museum-presents-francis-upritchard-exhibit〕 Francis Upritchard is represented in the US by (Anton Kern Gallery ), in the UK by (Kate Macgarry ) and in New Zealand by (Ivan Anthony Gallery ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Upritchard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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