f r a n c e s . b o y l e

Another year gone by......

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This year has been a struggle but easier than the year before. I squeezed out a small portrait of my neighbour's little niece Natasha, who lives in Africa. I had grabbed the opportunity and took a series of photographs as her Auntie sprayed her with the hosepipe one hot Summer Day. It was a scene that was spontaneously happy and joyful as the little girl squealed with delight running through diamonds of sparkling water under a transparent plastic brolly and a hot blue sky. It was also poignant for me as an observer because I knew her visit was nearly at an end and her Aunty would miss her. I wanted to capture this moment of childhood for the world, for Caroline. Because I was not emotionally involved, i.e. not a portrait of my own child, it was a refreshing change to be standing apart from myself and I enjoyed the process, exploring colour without being too precious. So here is the process, the decisions made and changed until it was finished.

and details.......

ALL THE PLACES I HAVE LIVED: 23 Frost Drive 1964-1981

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23 Frost Drive,

Irby,

Wirral,

Merseyside

my bedroom

Mental Shelves, Mantel pieces

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The Whichford Bicycle Company

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Allotment

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It has been a struggle for me this year to go to my allotment as my heart has been elsewhere. The garden has been left to survive and grow wild, largely on it's own, contending with lack of rain and a molestation of dandelions. I try to love their bright faces and pretty clocks. Despite my neglect, the effort I made in the Autumn to plant onion sets, has paid off and I was happy today carrying back a heavy weight of handsomely huge onions with thoughts of platting them and hanging them in my kitchen. Perhaps they will see me through the Winter.

The artichokes I picked, I had for supper with a dressing of olive oil, cider vinegar, honey and mustard. They were delightfully 'meaty', more successful than last year despite the lack of rain but it is perhaps the extra spring sunshine we had, that did it. I need to 'catch' them when they are just before tennis ball size and not let them get bigger or flower. I like the greeny/grey/blue arrangement on my green striped plate, picked up from the dump and I would like to paint it.

Tennis balls are apt as it is Wimbledon, not that I am watching TV, but I have a continuous suppy of delicious strawberries which I pick freely and randomly and it gives me great pleasure as I pop one into my mouth and I am reminded of lying lazily between rows of strawberry plants when I was 16, on a farm in Longborough, not that far from here, knowing that the punnets we were picking were going to M&S but the biggest, choicest and most juicy were going into my mouth..... and that the money I was earning was taking me and my boyfriend to Greece. The simple pleasure and ambition of youth.

48 hours after mum died

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P E O P L E , P L A C E S , I C O N S

Ending Soon!

Exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs

3rd till 18th July 2010

Saturday and Sunday 17th and 18th, 12pm till 6 pm.

The Old PO

Whichford

Warwickshire

CV36 5PE

p a i n t i n g . i c o n s (in developmemt)

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first bite (detail) oil on canvas

p e o p l e & p l a c e s. photography

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London

Paris

New Brighton, The Wirral, UK

Torrox, Spain

Warwickshire, UK

Traitor's Ford, Warwickshire, UK

Alpujaras, Spain

p e o p l e

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couple, Iceland

p a i n t i n g . portraits

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Freyja

Oscar

Alex

Natasha

f i l m o g r a p h y

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In the 1990s Frances Boyle collaborated with Ray Lee and Harry Dawes, , producing 'live celuloid theatre' for the
award-winning and innovative music theatre company 'Lee and Dawes' that toured nationally and internationally winning
the prestigious Barclay’s New Stages Award for experimental theatre for ‘In the Ether’.

Film maker 1994 ‘The Modulation’ Lee and Dawes . Performance music with live film. National touring . 12 performances.

Film maker 1996/7 ‘In the Ether’, Lee and Dawes. Performance-music with live film. Winner of prestigious Barclays New Stages Award
and a BT-EMA Innovation Award. National tour, 24 performances. Performances in Moscow
and Berlin.

Film maker 1998 ‘Loop’, Lee and Dawes. Performance-music with live film. National tour. 18 performances. Commissioned
by MAC, Birmingham and supported by the Arts Council of England. ‘You’re in for a
treat…’ The Guardian. Performances at Polverigi International theatre Festival, Italy

film maker for live performance by Juliet Robinson 1998

'Chiarascuro' Large scale projections for choreographer and dancer, Kathy Crick 1993

'The First Cut is the Deepest' 1994, 16mm, 10 minutes broadcast Central television

'School Diaries' Produced, Directed and edited video, documentary. a day in the life of six primary schools in Nottinghamshire

'Save it' 3 mins. 16 mm . public information animation encourageing people to save paper. Made with technical support from Aardman animation , Bristol.

'The Ticking Man' 1989 promotional video for 'The Ticking Man' Motionhouse Dance Co

'DINOSAUR' 1989 5 x 3 minute films , 'Villa in the Highlands', 'Mobile submarine home', 'An Arc for all Weathers

'The Ludite Project' 1989 20 minutes. Documentary for Meeting Ground Theatre Co.

'Train' 1987 20 minutes. super 8 . Toured nationaly and internationaly alongside the films of Derek Jarmen

'Cut up' 1987 6 minutes. found footage super 8 . Toured nationaly

'Bjorg og Gutmunder' 1986 20 mins. super 8

'The Hat' 1986 3 mins. Super 8

i n s t a l l a t i o n

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'Labyrinth' 2005 Whichford, Warwickshire.
Large scale earth work conceived and constructed by Frances Boyle
in collaboration with Ray Lee

'Sekonda' 1993. large outdoor film projection
Newark Festival

'Dinnosaur' 1990
animated film Installation in collaboration with Ray Lee, Leicester City Art Gallery

'Homage Image' 1987
Large scale outdoor film/sound projection

p e r f o r m a n c e w o r k

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'Escalera' performer, film maker. Sarah Tutt Performance. 1999

'War Dance' Performer and dancer. Lumier and Son. 1991

'Satelite' Performer and co-deviser in collaboration with Ray Lee and Tamara Maclachlan .GLOBAL performance co. 1988

'Moonacy' Writer, Director and performer. Fisheyepie Performance Co. National Review of Live Art. 1987

'Gasp,Tweet, Flutter' Writer, Director and performer. Fisheyepie Performance Co. 1986

'Catholic' Writer, Director and performer. Fisheyepie Performance Co. 1985

p a s t . w o r k

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