About
Frances Barrett is an artist who bridges sound and performance art, creating immersive sound installations and live performances that position the audience as active listeners. Frances works with the material of sound to destabilise dominant notions of visibility, coherence and legibility. Listening is the sensory focus of her work, becoming a way to initiate and imagine queer forms of relation, embodiment and affect. Frances has a long-standing commitment to collective and collaborative processes, working with performers, vocalists and sound designers in the development of each new work.
Frances’ projects have been presented by Adelaide Biennale, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Biennale of Sydney, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Hayward Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and Samstag Museum of Art. She has been the recipient of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship, a participating artist in the Kaldor Public Arts Projects Australian Artists Residency Program, and a selected artist as part of the Carriageworks Clothing Store Studio Residency. She was the Chair of the Curatorial Advisory Board for VERS: On Pleasures, Embodiment, Kinships, Fugitivity and Re/Organising, an event focused on queer practices presented by Monash University Museum of Art, Samstag Museum of Art and Ace Open. She was one member of the art collective Barbara Cleveland (with Diana Baker Smith, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley) who presented projects at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Biennale of Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art and Hayward Gallery.
She is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at Monash Art Design and Architecture.
Frances Barrett is an artist who bridges sound and performance art, creating immersive sound installations and live performances that position the audience as active listeners. Frances works with the material of sound to destabilise dominant notions of visibility, coherence and legibility. Listening is the sensory focus of her work, becoming a way to initiate and imagine queer forms of relation, embodiment and affect. Frances has a long-standing commitment to collective and collaborative processes, working with performers, vocalists and sound designers in the development of each new work.
Frances’ projects have been presented by Adelaide Biennale, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Biennale of Sydney, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Hayward Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and Samstag Museum of Art. She has been the recipient of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship, a participating artist in the Kaldor Public Arts Projects Australian Artists Residency Program, and a selected artist as part of the Carriageworks Clothing Store Studio Residency. She was the Chair of the Curatorial Advisory Board for VERS: On Pleasures, Embodiment, Kinships, Fugitivity and Re/Organising, an event focused on queer practices presented by Monash University Museum of Art, Samstag Museum of Art and Ace Open. She was one member of the art collective Barbara Cleveland (with Diana Baker Smith, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley) who presented projects at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Biennale of Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art and Hayward Gallery.
She is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at Monash Art Design and Architecture.