Frances Willoughby
The Gaze
Frances is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bristol, working across sculpture, installation, photography, and collage. Her practice explores the metamorphic boundaries of the human form - its vulnerability, transformation, and entanglement with personal, familial, and technological narratives. Rooted in autobiography yet leaning toward speculative fiction, she creates hybrid bodies that resist fixed identity, embracing fragmentation, ambiguity, and contradiction.
She works with both traditional and synthetic materials, plaster, textiles, found objects, and digital imagery to explore how memory, gender, and trauma are inscribed in the body. Recent work engages with posthumanist ideas, reimagining the body as cyborgian, mythic, and incomplete. The Gaze reflects on surveillance, inheritance, and the illusion of linear time.
Across all media, Frances seeks to disrupt binary thinking - human/machine, feminine/monstrous, whole/fragmented, offering alternative ways of seeing the self. Her sculptures often invite movement, touch, or interaction. She is interested in the body not as a finished form, but as an evolving site of resistance and reimagination.
Bristol