frances@avivablane.com

Publications
Biography
Education
1991—1993
Slade School of Fine Art
London
1988—1991
Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing
London
1987
Chelsea College of Art
London
Awards
1999
Jerwood Award for Drawing
1999
Cheltenham and Gloucester
Open Drawing Show
Winner
1998
Mid-America ART Alliance
Fellowship for Visual Arts
1998
Residency at Djerassi Artists’ Foundation
California, USA
1991
Graham Hamilton Drawing Prize
Residency
1998
Djerassi Resident Art Programme
Collections
Blind Art
London School of Economics
Moorfields Eye Hospital
Sternberg Centre
Jesus College Cambridge
Usher Gallery
Three Faiths Forum
Tim Sayer Collection
Doris Jean Lockhart Collection
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2024
An Echo in Time
With: Frauke Wilken
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2023
Radikale Expressie
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2022
Fired
With: Claudia Clare
Gallery 286
London
2021
Temporary
With: Paula Rego, Eric Monbel
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2021
Moi et Les Autres
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2021
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize
2020
The Desire of Looking
With: Daniel Enkaoua, Marcelle Hanselaar
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2019
Abstract Allies
With: Naum Gabo, Nigel Hall, Howard Hodgkin
Curated: Tim Sayer MBE
‍‍Zuleika Gallery
London
2019
Ikonoclash #01
With: Roel Goussay, Mercelle Hanselaar
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2018
John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Gallery
Liverpool
2018
No Man is an Island
With: Susan Stockwell, David Connearn
Art Dialog
Bonn, Germany
2017
Human
The German Embassy
London
2016
Liquid Thought
With: Daniel Enkaoua, Chris Stevens
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2016
Impact
‍With: Marthe Zinc, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Anstee
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2015
De Vage Grens
‍With: Frank Auerbach, Reniere,Depla
De Queeste Kunstkamers
Abele/Watou, Belgium
2015
Jerwood Drawing Prize
London and Tour
2007
Annely Juda : A Celebration
Annely Juda Fine Art
London
2006
Prime Time
German and English Painting
Berlin, Germany
2002
London Gallery Swap
Sponsored: British Council / Goethe institut
2001
Drawing
With: Basil Beattie
EcArtspace
London
2000
Painting
With: John McLean
EcArtspace
London
Press
Real Democracy Movement
Corinna Lotz
28 September 2024
me me me! — Submerging yourself in Blue on White, Frances Aviva Blane’s nearly two metres square abstract painting, carries some potential dangers ...
Authory
Manick Govinda
29 September 2023
Deadpan — “…I have been a Jungian for a long time…painting is a state of being…Painting is self discovery”. Jackson Pollack ...
Shippon Gallery
23 July 2023
Dark — “Anguish writ large”and “disturbing yet compelling” are descriptions of Frances Aviva Blane’s paintings ...
Authory
Manick Govinda
20 January 2023
Brain Spill — I have Frances Aviva Blane’s latest book by my side. It’s a gorgeous 12” x 12” inch object – like a vinyl album ...
Goyo Vigil
Vivencias Plásticas
27 November 2022
They Come Out of the Shadows — When they see themselves reflected they spit; they don't like their faces of angry ...
Real Democracy Movement
Corinna Lotz
25 November 2022
More Discord — It’s the right time to see Frances Aviva Blane’s work at two exhibitions – one in London and another in Oxfordshire ...
Real Democracy Movement
Corinna Lotz
27 September 2022
The Stuff of Dreams and Nightmares — Thanks to independent gallerist Jonathan Ross, a leading feminist artist has been ‘uncancelled’ ...
Authory
Manick Govinda
18 August 2022
Book Review: FRANCES — I first came across Frances Aviva Blane’s work back in October 2020 in a two-woman exhibition  ...
Optichrome
25 October 2021
Hot Off the Press — Frances Aviva Blane is a well-known international artist. An English painter who works in the expressionist tradition ...
Glass Magazine
Connie de Pelet
16 October 2020
Fragmented — In the midst of the divisions and reinterpretations demanded by the experience of living through Covid-19 ...
Real Democracy Movement
Corinna Lotz
2 July 2020
Virus Dimensions Unknown — The Freud Museum was the perfect location. An artist who plumbs the depths of the human psyche ...
Real Democracy Movement
Corinna Lotz
6 September 2019
Who am I? — “Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or it will not be at all”. The last sentence of André Breton’s 1928 Surrealist novel ...
The Purpose of It
Jane Dale
1 November 2018
Dark — The title of British artist Frances Aviva Blane’s new show at de Queeste Art gallery in Belgium although the work, at first sight ...
Irk Magazine
Laura FitzPatrick
31 October 2018
The Human Touch — Dark is an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Frances Aviva  Blane, which will be at the De Queeste Art Gallery ...
Mutual Art
Corinna Lotz
10 September 2018
How the Art World is Making Way for the Visually Impaired — Traditionally, art in galleries is created for our eyes. It’s our sight ...
Glass Magazine
Jane Weston
29 May 2018
Broken Heads Broken Paint — British artist Frances Aviva Blane’s new solo exhibition Broken Heads Broken Paint opens in London ...
Real Democracy Movement
Corinna Lotz
3 May 2017
German Expressionism’s Night at the Embassy — For the countless artists who enter open submissions, Samuel Beckett’s 'Worstword Ho' ...
The Purpose of It
Miranda Charalambous
25 April 2017
Embassy — THE LONDON-based artist, Frances Aviva Blane has just published Embassy, her second book which follows the success of ...
Elephant Magazine
25 July 2016
Somewhere Along The Line — As a graduate of one of the only drawing degrees left in the country, you would expect that my understanding ...
The Purpose of It
Lilian Pizzichini
29 July 2016
Two Faces Opens at German Ambassador’s Residence — One of the first holy fools recorded was a nun of whom the church ...
A World to Win
Corinna Lotz
18 December 2015
All or Nothing — The sombre blacks and greys of NOTHING’s cover give away nothing. But even a health warning might not be sufficient ...
Glass Magazine
Caroline Simpson
11 September 2015
Draw You In — London-based British artist Frances Aviva Blane’s show Deconstruct is currently on display at De Queeste Art Kunstkamers ...
Glass Magazine
Louisa Lui
14 August 2014
Three Bs in Belgium — London-based British artist Frances Aviva Blane’s show Deconstruct is currently on display at De Queeste ...
A World to Win
Corinna Lotz
10 March 2014
Back to Black — Frances Aviva Blane’s big black paintings are displayed in an unusual setting – KCL Bay Hall at the ...
Glass Magazine
Nico Kos Earle
5 March 2014
From June 10 – 15 at London’s Mall Galleries we have a unique opportunity to discover the intimate relationship that exists ...