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Francoise Dupre

Orléans
French born, London-based artist, Françoise Dupré make textile-based art and drawing installalions.
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Françoise Dupré is a French artist, an independent researcher and curator.  Currently based in Orléans, Loire Valley, France; she trained at University of the Arts London (Camberwell and Chelsea) and was, until 2018, a senior lecturer and researcher at Birmingham School of Art, BCU.  Dupré has developed an international career with exhibitions, residencies, commissions and self-initiated projects in the UK, USA, Australia and Europe. 

Dupré’s current studio-based project, COUTURE investigates the performativity of drawing through stitching (piercing, looping).  Couture aims to develop a hybrid practice of installation works that combine stitching and drawing with the practice of memory.  For more information vist: https://francoisedupre.com/

Between 2003 and 2016, the artist developed a collaborative-participatory model of art making in the social, working mostly with women groups, using textiles for its plasticity and sociability, its cultural specificity and transnationalism. Her socially engaged practice is discussed in her 2014 published chapter From Brixton to Mostar, social practice through textiles – in Cultural Threads edited by Jessica Hemmings.

Dupré’s most recent project, DORA PROJECT marked Dupré’s new focus on the practice of memory.  The project explored the contemporary relevance of WW2 history and the performative process of remembrance through the activating of individual and community archives and memories.  The project also marked the artist’s return to drawing.  For more information visit: https://doraproject.wordpress.com/

 

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