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Mark Francis

b. Newtownards, Co. Down, N.Ireland, 1962

Education

1981 – 85 BA St. Martins College of Art
1985 – 86 MA Chelsea School of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2019

Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

White Light, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2018

Spectra, Luca Tomassi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2017

Mark Francis and Alexis Harding: The Extended Field,

Luca Tomassi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2016

Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca, Spain

2014

Evidence of Absence, Dirimart, Istanbul2013Calibrate, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin2012Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland2011Mark Francis, Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca, Spain2010

Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin

Arena, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, England

2009

Field, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin2008

Pulse Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2007

Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin

Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca, Spain

2006

Pendulum, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Frontier, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2005

Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen

2004

Gallery Thomas Schulte, Berlin

Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London

Marlborough Graphics, London

2003

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Drawings, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

2002

Galerie Wilma Lock, St Gallen Switzerland

Gallery Anne de Villepoix, Paris

2001

New Paintings, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart2000

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London

Elements, Milton Keynes Gallery, London

1999

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1998

Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles

Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

1997

Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1996

Terra Nova – New Territories, Harewood House, Leeds

Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam

Galerie Anne de Villepoix , Paris

1995

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London

Galerie Thieme+Pohl, Darmstadt, Germany

City Art Gallery, Manchester

1994

Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London1992Jill George Gallery, London1990Thumb Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017

Abstract Painting Now, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

The Underlying Shape, Floss and Schultz, Cologne, Germany

Painting Black, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Foundation of Conceptual Art, Soest, Germany

2016

5 Years at Heddon Street, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

The Pattern Reveals Itself, Claudia Weil Galerie, Friedberg-Rinnenthal, Germany

2015Strukturen Project, Newlyn Art Gallery, The Exchange, Penzance2014Strukturen Projekt, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany2012

Kerlin Gallee Time of Shaking, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin ARTfutures 2004 – City of London School, London La Colmena –ry, Dublin

Means without Ends, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

2011

Lets Party For A Piece Of Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Creating the New Century – Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (FCMOCA), Fort Collins, CO

Kesä – Sommar – Summer 2011, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

Group show 2011, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca

LITOS GRAFERA, Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg

Joao Ferreira Gallery Collection 2011, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town

2010

Cream – Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Summer 2010, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Next Generation, Einblicke in junge Ostschweizer Privatsammlungen, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen

Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining, Apexart, New York City, NY

Abstract Vision Now, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow, with Ian Davenport, Peter Halley and Dan Walsh

Spatial Dimensions, Galerie de Brock, Knokke, Belgium

2009

Concrete, The Collection of Heinz and Annette Teufel, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany

Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; AkkuH Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, Hengelo

Summer Abstract Group Show – Galleria Rubin, Milan

summa summarum, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen

Edition Copenhagen, Retrospective 1959 – 2009 – Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2008

C ad hoc, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen

Abstraction, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town

Spore Atomi Stelle, Galleria L’Attico, Rome

10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from the Members of Business to Arts, Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA, Dublin

Celebrating 20 year, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

What lies beneath the surface – Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin

For the Spirit, From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Contemporary Graphics, Galerie & Edition Bode GmbH, Nuremberg

Genesis, Die Kunst der Schöpfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

2007

Die Kunst zu sammeln, Museum Kunst Palast. Düsseldorf

ART FUTURES, Bloomberg SPACE, London

Painting in the Noughties, Letterkenny Arts Centre

Heads Figures and Ideas 2007, Osborne Samuel, London

2006

Monochromed, The Fine Art Society, London, UK

2005

Lines and Traces, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim

ART FUTURES, Bloomberg SPACE, London

The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK

After the Thaw, AIB Art Collection, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Size Matters, Arts Council England Touring Collections, UK

2004

In the Time of Shaking, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

ARTfutures 2004 – City of London School, London

La Colmena – Galeria de Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City

2003

Before & After Science, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy 

2002

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, Jerwood Space, London

Dublin 7 Educate Together, Dublin

Leopold + Rudolf Blaschka, Design Museum, London & touring

‘The Rowan Collection’, IMMA, Dublin

‘Eight New Paintings’, Kerlin Gallery Dublin, including Callum Innes, Sean Scully + more.

Prospects Drawing Prize, Essor Project Space, London, UK

John Moores 22, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

 2001

Irish Art Now, IMMA. Dublin

Fluid, Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Wolverhampton

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

 2000/2001

‘Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of Irish Art’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 

2000

‘Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political’,Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

‘Premio Michetti’: Europe, different perspectives in painting, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy

‘In the Mind’s Sky’, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, California

The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London

Zero Zero Four Four,Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

The Saatchi Gift, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

1999-2000

‘Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political’, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada;

drei positionen in der malerei, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

Macro-Micro, Contemporary Painters Negotiate Small Truths, University of Texas (Blanton Museum of Art)

Zero Zero Four Four, PS1, New York and Allbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico

‘A Quiet Storm, Painting in Abstraction’, Kohn/Turner Gallery, L

1998

post Naturam – nach der Natur, Stadt Münster, Germany.

Sensation – Saatchi Collection, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin

Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy

 1997

Interior, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London

Surface, GOW Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand

Sensation – Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Art, London

Beau Geste, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles

Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

Nat West Painting Prize, London

 1996

Absolut Vision, New British Painting in the 1990’s, M.O.M.A., Oxford

Scattering Matrix, curated by Jane Hart, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica

Black, Grey & White, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf

Microscopic territories, Harewood House Trust, Harewood

British Abstract Art III, Flowers East Gallery, London

Whitechapel Open, London

IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Mary Boone Gallery, New York. (Mark Francis, Leonardo Drew, Oliver Herring)

1995

Testing the Water, Tate Gallery, Liverpool

Voyage Anglais, Rheimes, France

John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

From Here, Karsten Schubert/Waddington Galleries, London.

Painters’ Opinion, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam

The Adventure of Painting, Kunstvereins Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, Germany

1994

Human Nature, Mark Francis & Brad Lochore Herve Mikaeloff, Paris

The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

New Modern British Paintings (1988 – 1994), Richard Salmon Ltd., London

East 1994, Norfolk Institute of Art & Design, Norwich

Paintmarks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

Unveiled, Cornerhouse, Manchester

Europa 94, Munich Order Centre, Munich

Whitechapel Open, London

1993

Recent Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London

An Undiscovered Country; 10 Abstract Painters, curated by Charles Hall, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, Ikon Touring Exhibition

Snap Shots, curated by Anthony Wilkinson, Eagle Gallery, London

A Decade of Collecting, Tate Gallery, London

International Print Exhibition, Tokyo

Whitechapel Open, London

1992

South Bank Show, Royal Festival Hall, London

British Art comes to St. Helena, St Helena (selected by Mary Rose Beaumont)

Twelve Stars, European Parliment Exhibition, Belfast, Edinburgh, London, Zurich, Brussels

1990

Four Painters, New Academy, London

Bonhams Contemporary Auction, London

Whitechapel Open, London

1989

Christie’s New Contemporaries, Royal College of Art, London 

1986

4 New Painters, Paton Gallery, London

ILEA class of ’86, Royal Festival Hall, London

On the Wall Gallery, Belfast.

1985

Another View of Ireland, Irish Artists in London

Athena International Awards, Mall Galleries, London

Riverside Open, Riverside Studios, London

1984

Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Summer Group Show, Tom Caldwell Gallery, London

1983

Summer Show, Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin

New Contemporaries, The Mall Gallery, London

Projects & Awards

1997 - Public Art Development Trust: Mark Francis / Nicky Hirst

1996 - IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

1993 - Grand Prize Tokyo International Print Exhibition

Collections

ACC Bank, Dublin

Allied Irish bank

Anglo Irish bank

Arts Council of England

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

American Express Collection

Arthur Andersen & Co Ltd

Bank of Ireland

Bank of America, Dublin

Bank of Scotland, Dublin

British Credit Trust,Slough

British Council, London

Caldic Collection, Amsterdam

Cleveland Clinic Art Foundation Program, Lyndhurst, Ohio

Chelmsford Borough Council

Contemporary Arts Society, London

Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

de Young Memorial Museum San, Francisco

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Deutsche Bank, Germany

Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, London

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

The Economist

European Parliament

General Mills Inc.

Goldman Sachs International, London

Government Art Collection, London

The Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri

Hammersmith & Fulham Education Authority

Heytesbury Holdings, Australia

IIB Bank, Dublin

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey

KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland

Lambert Collection, Zurich

Leicester Education Authority

Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum

Machida City Museum Of Graphic Art, Tokyo

Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester

Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Dublin

Mead Gallery, Warwick University

Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc., New York

Merrill Lynch International Bank, London

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Microsoft Art Collection, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington State

Museum of Modern Art, Miami

Nat West Group Art Collection, London

Neuberger Berman, A Lehman Brothers company

New York Public Library, New York

The Rowan Collection Belfast

Saatchi Collection, London

Sarah Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

Southampton City Art Gallery

Simmons & Simmons, London

Stanhope Properties Plc

The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

St. Peters College, Oxford

Tate Gallery, London

UBS Art collection, Switzerland

Ulster Museum, Belfast

Unilever Plc, London

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Wellmark BlueCross Blue Shield Corporate Art Collection, Des Moines, Iowa

Selected bibliography

2013

Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 22 March 2013

Cristin Leach Hughes, The Sunday Times, pg. 14/15, 17 March 2013

Robert Clark, Guardian Guide, 1 March 2013

Gerry Walker, Irish Arts Review, pg. 74/75, Spring 2013

2010

Le Monde diplomatique, October 2010, pg. 1

‘For the Love of Art’, The Kelly Collection, Co. Wexford, edited by Dr. Roisin Kennedy, pg. 40-43

Bob Dickenson, Art Monthly, No. 336, May 2010

‘Abstract Experiments’, House and Garden, May 2010, pg. 96

Prime Cuts: May-September, pg. 8, 2010

Michael Glover, ‘Scenic setting is full of surprises’, The Independent, April 6 2010

Concept for Living, ‘What’s On’, Issue 137, April 2010

‘Arena’, exhibition catalogue, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria. Text by Barry Phipps.

The Big Issue in the North, 22-28 March 2010, pg. 8

‘Round the Galleries’, Andrew Lambirth, Spectator, pg. 46 &49, March 27 2010

Adrian Mullen, Best of Brit! Leading Artist sets eyes of world on Kendal, The Westmorland Gazette, 25 March 2010, pg. 41

Rachel Campbell Johnston, The Times Playlist, 20-26 March 2010, pg. 21

The Guardian, The Guide, pg. 39, March 20 2010

Adrian Mullen, ‘Art world focuses on Mark Francis Abbot Hall exhibition, The Westmorland Gazette, 19 March 2010 (online)

North-west Evening Newspaper, March 18 2010, pg.1

Andrew Spooner, The Art of Adventure, The Guardian, 13 March 2010, pg. 7

2009

Aidan Dunne, ‘Familiarity Can Breed Surprise and Delight’, The Irish Times, October 7th 2009

Kate Butler, The Sunday Times, October 4th 2009

Ed. McAree, Paul, ‘Breaking Ground: 2001-2009, 48/88/56/48/446’, Dublin, 2009.

Four Seasons Magazine, Issue Four, 2009, pp.95 & cover page.

2008

Select 2008, Mark Francis, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin

Aidan Dunne, Systems setting pretty, The Irish Times, 15 February 2008

Lucy White, ‘His finger is on the…’ Metro, January 28, 2008

2006

‘Experiments with the science world’, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, March 8 2006

2004

Michael Wilson, Artforum, May 2004

Rebecca Geldard, Time Out, 12th-19th May, 2004

2003

Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 29th October, 2003.

Catherine Leen, Sunday Times – Culture, 19th October 2003.

2001

MacGiolla Léith, Caoimhín. Soundings: The Paintings of Mark Francis, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 2001, Vol. 17

Notate, biomorph: Mark Francisbei Hauff, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 02 June

Achterbahn, Francis in der Galerie Hauff, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 23 May

Malerei als kartografisches System, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 24 April

‘Soundings, The Paintings of Mark Francis’, Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith, Irish Arts review, Yearbook 2001, Vol.17

2000

Daly, Catherine. Mark Francis, The Sunday Times, (Irish edition), 31 December

Dunne, Aiden. Mark Francis, The Irish Times, The Ticket, 29 November

Mark Francis, Netter Art Collection, publ. Georg Theime Verla

Wood, Catherine. Reflecting on his work: the artist Mark Francis, The Lancet, Vol 356, 05 August

Staff Brandl, Mark. Mark Francis at MK G, Art in America, July

Coomer, Martin. Time Out, 06 July-13 July

Herbert, Martin. Mark Francis, Interim Art, Time Out, 28 June–05 July

Aidin, Rose. ‘Painting by numbers’, The Times

Dunne, Aiden. ‘No national identity, please. We’re Irish’,

Mark Francis, Elements, Milton Keynes Gallery, texts by Stephen Snoddy, Stephen Jay Gould and Andrew Cross

‘Mark Francis’, Catherine Daly, Sunday Times, 31 Dec 2000

Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, The Ticket, 29 Nov 2000

Robson, David. ‘Now the Brit pack get a gallery all to themselves’, The Express, 24 March

Young, Robin & Morgan, Jonathan. ‘Broad canvas for a new face of Tate Britain’ The Times, 24 March

Clark, Robert. ‘Home thoughts from abroad’, The Guardian Guide, 12-18 February

Darwent, Charles. ‘Anatomy of an obsessive’, The Independent on Sunday, 23 January

Tracy, Luvvi. ‘Francis? Wonderful’, Milton Keynes on Sunday, 23 January

Lubbock, Tom. ‘Behind the scenes at the museum’, The Indepedent, 18 January

1999

The Irish Times, 09 February Stewart, Clare.

Art for the Millennium, The Times, 11 December

Mitchell, Steve. Without Boundaries: “Irish” Art at the Albright-Knox, Artvoice, 07-13 October

Huntington, Richard. The Clouds roll in, The Buffalo News Arts & Entertainment, 03 October

Schade, Christopher. Blanton curator’s first show finds truth, Austin American-Statesman, 18 September 1999

Smith, Roberta. The Irish Struggle For a Visual Poetry To Call Their Own, The New York Times, Weekend, 25 June 1999

Mack, Gerhard. Marks merkwürdige Mikrokosmen, Paradeplatz, 23 April

Preview: 0044, Dawn Fulcher, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 23

Paintings: Ein Ire in St. Gallen, Vorarlberger-Nachrichten, 17 April

Pulsieren in Zeitlupe, Ursula Badrutt Schoch, St. Gallen-Tagblatt/Kultur, 9 April

Mark Francis, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 12 March

Cluttered to Perfection, Jane Burton, The Independent on Sunday Mag. 28 February

1998

A Brush with Tradition, Louisa Buck, Joyce no.41, Spring issue

Seductive Dots, Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May

Spontaneitat und Controlle, Barbara Henke, Haudelsblatt Kunstmarkt, 6 January

NatWest sells Old Masters to buy Modern British Art, Nigel Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 26 February

Mark Francis, Journal Frankfurt, December / January

1997

Den Betrachter auf Distanz halten, Konstanze Cruwell, IAS, 27 December

Mark Francis, Schwarz und Rund, Frankfurter Rundschau, 27 December

Mark Francis, Catalogue essay, Tim Marlow, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Interior, Time Out, Sue Hubbard, 12 November

Voglio uffici come musei, La Stampa, Gabriele Beccaria, 12 October

Blair goes abstract but avoids dead cows, Nigel Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 9 October

New man at the Ministry shows his true colours in art, Dan Glaister,

Herbert Martin, Time Out, September

The Guardian, 9th Oct

Who are they pointing at?, Independent/EYE, Tom Lubbock, 18 September

Confessions of a gallery curator, Sunday Tribune, Aidan Dunne, 31 August

Nat West Prize, The Independent on Sunday, Tim Hilton, 25 May

Nat West Prize, Financial Times, Bill Packe, 20 May

Mary Boone Gallery, The New York Times, Grace Glueck, 31 Jan

Letter from New York, Art Monthly, Andrew Cross, Feb no. 203

Mary Boone Gallery, The New Yorker, 3 Feb

1996

The IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award, The Sunday Times, 12 May

Crooked Style, The Observer,William Fever

The Best of Brit Painting, The Guardian, Adrian Searle

On the Surface, The Independent, Andrew Graham-Dixon

The Vision Thing, Art Monthly, Andrew Wilson, Absolut Vision, M.O.M.A., Oxford

The Sunday Independent, review by Ciara Ferguson, 21 April

IMMA/Glen Dimplex, Sunday Times, Medb Ruane, 31 March

The Irish Times, review by Brian Fallon, 5 April

Cityline Magazine, Charles Purcell, April issue

The Tribune Magazine, review by Aidan Dunne, 24 March

IMMA/Glen Dimplex, Phoenix Magazine, 29 March

IMMA/Glen Dimplex, In Dublin Magazine, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, 28 March

Critics Choice, The Sunday Tribune, by Aidan Dunne, 17 March

Arts Diary, The Evening Herald, 14 March

Gallery Glance, Dublin Event Guide, 7 March

1995

Rewind 95, The Irish Times, Brian Fallon, 28 Dec

The how right we were syndrome, The Tribune Magazine, 17 Dec

IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award Shortlist, The Sunday Times, 17 Dec

Turn on the Dimplex, Irish Times, 14 Dec

An Irishman’s Diary, The Irish Times, Kevin Myers, 14 Dec

Temple or Bar, The Irish Times, Luke Clancy, 28 Dec

Who needs London?, The Independent on Sunday, Tim Hilton, 5 Nov

Kerlin Gallery, The Irish Times, Luke Clancy, 31 Oct

Kerlin Gallery, The Sunday Times, Medb Ruane, 29 Oct

On Exhibitions, The Independent, Iain Gale, 27 Oct

Compendium of Coolness, Liverpool Daily Post, Adrian Henri, 26 Oct

Manchester City Art Gallery, Frieze, Mark Durden, issue 22

Interim Art, Art Monthly, Simon Morley, issue 187

Around the Galleries: Interim Art, Saccha Craddock, Times, May

Manchester City Art Gallery, Big Issue, Rob Haynes

Manchester City Art Gallery, City Life

Interim Art, Time Out, Martin Coomer

Waddingtons/ Karsten Schubert, Art Monthly, Michael Archer issue 186

Adventure of Paintings, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Wolfgang Rainer

Adventure of Painting, Westdeutsche Zeitung, Sophia Wiliams

Adventure of Painting: Rheinische Post

Human Nature, Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Fritz 6

Galerie Theme+Pohl, Darmstadter Echo, Roland Held, 20 June

Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Mark Francis, Lebendiges Darmstadt, June

Neue Kunstausstellungen, Darmstadter Echo, 25 May

Galerie Thieme+Pohl: Darmstadter Kulturnachrichren

Painter’s Opinion, De Volkskrant, Suto Wama

1994

Mark Francis/ Brad Lochore, Art & Expos, Paris

Mark Francis, Interim Art, London, texts by Peter Fleissig and Christopher Bucklow

Review: Interim Art, Time Out, David Lillington, May

East, Art Monthly, Mark Durden,

The Curator’s Egg, Summer: Untitled, issue no.5

Whitechapel Open, The Times, Richard Cork

Life in Venice, Untitled, Tony Godfery, issue no.3

The Richter Scale, Arts Review, Charles Gall

1993

David Lillington review, Time Out

1992

Mark Francis, New Paintings and Monoprints, Jill George Gallery, London, text by Stuart Morgan

1990

Mark Francis, Painting and Monotypes, Thumb Gallery, London, text by Charles Hall Pick of the Week, The Guardian, Charles Hall

1989

New Art Goes Under The Hammer, The Telegraph, Richard Cork

1986

Four New Painters at Paton, Artscribe, Ian Brunskill, No. 58

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