ERASED August 11th 2024

Public Erasure - Water Vole August 11th/12th Open studios Sarah Gillespie and Frances Gynn plus Endangered species etchings at The Hide, East Allington

11am -5pm

ERASED June 22nd 2024

Public Erasure - Dormouse will be on Saturday June 22nd in Newton Abbot Market Square 10.30am for the opening of Act with the Arts CLIMATE CHANGE FESTIVAL 2024 and Teignmouth Beach Front Saturday June 29th 2024

All welcome RSVP

e: info@francesgynn.co.uk

ERASED 17/02/2024

‘PUBLIC ERASURE - Stag Beetle’ SATURDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2024 1pm-3pm at The RUSKIN DRAWING PRIZE EXHIBITION 2024 The Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place E14 0JW Exhibition open Monday-Friday 10am -5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm

The Erasure will be opened by Sir John Rose, leading figure in the Environmental Technology Sector

Open to all FREE EVENT

Stag Beetles are fairly widespread in Southern England especially in the Severn Valley and coastal areas of the South West. Elsewhere they are extremely rare and even extinct. The main cause for their demise is loss of habitat, unfortunately, due to human activity. For gardens, woodlands, and parks there is a greater need to retain dead and decaying wood as part of the ecosystem.

Recent event:

‘PUBLIC ERASURE - AFTER DURER’S HARE Then and Now’ SATURDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2023 at The VELARDE Gallery, 86 Fore Street, Kingsbridge, Devon

Opened by Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer and Broadcaster

Short BBC film by Jonathan Morris:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-devon-67418844 

Prints available on request

In 1502 Albrecht DURER made this sketch of a Hare. It was a nature study of a young hare whose population was plentiful at the time. Today the Hare is under serious threat. Numbers are thought to have declined 80% since the late 19th Century.

Public Erasures are interactive works where I invite the public to erase my drawings of endangered species as well as Public Erasures - White Wash and Green Wash where the public erases a painted image with a particular strike through or obliterating mark. The interactive element combined with the subject matter offers both a visceral and intellectual experience.

Many of these drawings and paintings have in mind the ‘disappearing marks’ of a species that are in danger of being lost from our visual vocabulary.

Our actions or inactions to preserve the life of millions of species now will determine the fate of biodiversity and ultimately of life itself on Earth