About Frank

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I am a non-binary trans person (pronouns: they/them) from Cardiff & based in Carmarthenshire and I create limited-edition linoprints, and paintings in oils and acrylics and mixed-media.

I want to provoke questions about what we are socially conditioned to believe to be normal, and by extension morally correct, especially when we think about the gender binary, neurotypicality and sexuality.

I am interested in the desire for certainty, and in the way that strange, uncertain and liminal spaces and behaviours often provoke discomfort. My feeling is that allowing ourselves space for the unknown, the shifting, the weird, and for death, we can begin to see how the things considered to be normal are actually harmful to us, as well as being fundamentally weird themselves. Turning away from certainty also allows us to view life with wonder and curiosity. I am an animist and am enchanted with the world, and I try to share this perspective in my work, hence the witchcraft and folklore themes.

I received a Master’s Degree with Distinction from Falmouth University in 2018 in the subject of Illustration: Authorial Practice.

I am a professional graphic designer and illustrator with a wide list of high-profile clients, and my work website can be found here

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CV

1997 – BTEC in Art Foundation, Glamorgan Centre for Art Design Technology
2000 – graduated with 2:1, BA hons in Journalism, Falmouth
2000-2003 – graphic designer in a communications agency in Cambridge, UK
2003 – went freelance & have been doing this ever since
2015 – joint exhibition of screenprints and paintings in Aberystwyth
2015 – 2018 MA with distinction, Falmouth, Illustration: Authorial Practice. I also won the prize for creative writing on that course.
2019 – speaker and panel member of Falmouth’s Illustration Forum
2020 – images and words published in Fruit Journal – lead artist
2020 – visiting lecturer on Falmouth’s Illustration MA
2021 – published writing and illustrations in TransBareAll anthology
2022 – interviewed in a podcast for TRANSBAREALL about my art – listen here
2022 – APRIL – two-week residency in SHIFT Cardiff; solo exhibition QUEER CROW DEATH MAGIC. Find out more about this here
2023 – AUGUST – work exhibited in UGLY DUCK, London Bridge
2024 – March – work exhibited in UNCENSORED exhibition in Brixton, London