Frances Joy Macgregor

Frances Joy Macgregor is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Brighton, working primarily in paint, mixed media and puppetry. Since leaving education at the age of eighteen her practice has been built on introspection and guided by a curiosity of the unseen. She employs painting and textile sculpture (in the realm of puppetry) as her primary mediums to express a folkloric narrative throughout her work. Among the use of storytelling as guidance, animistic beliefs inform her works as she leans into the idea of protective spirit. This leads into the intention of her work acting as a talisman, finding a self soothing quality to being under the tutelage of your own creation.