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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