Fran Richardson

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Born: Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Lives: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

Education
2005-2006 MA Fine Art: Painting - Distinction, City & Guilds of London Art School
2002-2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting - First Class, City & Guilds of London Art School
2001-2002 Foundation Studies Diploma, City & Guilds of London Art School

Solo Exhibitions
2011
Interior Castle, Long & Ryle Gallery, John Islip Street, London
2008
Drawing Interiors, Bristol Drawing School, Bath Road, Bristol

Group Exhibitions
2010
Gallery Artists Group Show, Long & Ryle, John Islip Street, London
London Art Fair (Long & Ryle), Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2009
The National Open Art Competition Winners, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
New Contemporaries, The Bristol Gallery, Millennium Promenade, Harbourside, Bristol
The National Open Art Competition, The Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
Art London (Long & Ryle), Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London
20/21 British Art Fair (Long & Ryle), Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
1984, The Kowalsky Gallery, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
Pastels Today 2009, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
Pallant House Open, Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester
House: Art and Domestic Space, The Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Brighton
Drawing Room II, Methuen Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Queen's Road, Bristol
2008
Acquire, Aspex, The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
Romance, The Kowalsky Gallery, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
London Art Fair (Beverley Knowles Fine Art), Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2007
Notting Heaven, Sartorial Contemporary Art, 101a Kensington Church St, London
Group Show, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, 88 Bevington Rd, London
London Art Fair (Beverley Knowles Fine Art), Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2006
Boundary Gallery Prize for Figurative Art, Boundary Gallery, 98 Boundary Road, London
Nationwide Mercury Art Prize, The Hospital Gallery, 24 Endell Street, London

Grants/Awards
The Arts Club Prize: The Finest Drawing in the Show, National Open Art Competition, Chichester (selected by Gavin Turk and Catharine Lampert)
Brian Sinfield Fine Arts Award, Pastels Today 2009
Visitors' Choice Award, House: Art & Domenstic Space, Brighton Festival 2009
First Prize, Boundary Prize for Figurative Art (selected by Mary-Rose Beaumont and Agi Katz)
Nationwide Mercury Art Prize (selected by Sir Peter Blake and Tim Marlow)

Publications
Manifest International Drawing Annual 4