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Errol Francis

Date of birth 26.May.56
Place of birth Oracabessa, Jamaica
Country of residence United Kingdom

born in Jamaica 1956, is an artist and mental health campaigner, living in London. Through different periods of his live he was trained in architecture, social services, photography and Fine Art. He gained his MA Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in 2004. His professional practice ranged from being a mental health carer, a mental health writer, consultant and campaigner, to running mental health charities, running a bookshop in Brixton and recently Garden Design.

Today he is one half of the joint management team of the Breaking the Circles of Fear-team at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, which promotes mental health service user inclusion and positive mental health for Black mental health service users. Francis' explicitly political view of his activities and campaigns for justice has earned him respect from some sides and blacklistings from others. At several occasions he has been engaged in stand-offs with his employers as a whistleblower.

As an artist Francis' has been exhibiting across the UK. His collaborations with former asylum patients were shown in Birmingham, installations about voting processes in the Nehru Centre London, his photos and videos at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich.

References in his work range from contemporary racism and the history of the slave trade to the colonial plant trade. His critical questioning of the British Colonialism and its meaning for contemporary Britain have repeatedly led him to Greenwich, a place he identified as historically crucial and representative for the British identity. Recently he has been collaborating with Caspar Below in Black Park, in 2005 they launched their web site as part of a2arts Ephemeral Cities-project (DeptfordX).

Exhibition history

2007 Trigger. Group show at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich. London.

2007 The Orb of London. Inaugural moving image screening at BFI Mediatheque SouthBank. London.

2006 Anomial. Sound art. Live group show. The Fleapit. London

2006 Look both ways. Stephen Lawrence Gallery London. Group Show.

2005 Black Park. Deptford X Online Exhibition with Caspar Below.

2005 Popular art: from Nehru’s democracy to the networked multitude, Nehru Centre London. Group Show

2005 Invalid, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, Group Show.

2004 Remembering All Saints. Soho House Museum, Birmingham. Solo Exhibition.

2003 Artworks in Mental Health Exhibition, Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries.

2003 Peregrinations of a Ferret. Space 44, London. Central Saint Martins Interim Group Show.

2003 Museum Walls, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich,. Solo Exhibition.

2003 No Fixed Position, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Group Show.

2002 Alphaville, Birmingham Thinktank Museum. Group exhibit.

2001 Handsworth Skylines, Soho House Museum Birmingham,. Group Show.

2000 Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bristol Architecture Centre,. Solo Ex

Exhibitions Complete Control, 03.Oct - 25.Nov.07, Contemporary Art Projects, Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, Trigger, 14.Apr - 28.Apr.07, United Village Arts

Events Artist Talk for Complete Control, 17.Nov.07, 1:30-2:30 pm, Trigger, 13.Apr.07, 6-9pm

 

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