Francesca Mollett: Elsewhere
In 2022, The Warehouse launched the WAREHOUSE:01 project, an annual exhibition which offers an artist the opportunity to show their work at The Warehouse, and to experiment with the display and creation of work specifically for the space.
In it's third iteration, British artist Francesca Mollett has selected the large central gallery to install nine of her paintings, six of which were created specifically for the exhibition. Poikilos (2024) takes the form of a triptych, a new format for the artist and a testimony to Mollett's mastery of both color and composition. Though many of Mollett’s works give the sense that they are connected to nature, the paintings in Elsewhere feel decidedly structured, as if they were built on the surface, brushstroke by brushstroke.
Mollett is inspired by a full range of experiences, from visual observations to literary sources, and the space within her paintings is both physical and poetic. The surfaces in her work shift, torque, and vibrate with energy. As an artist dedicated to the ever-evolving legacy of abstraction, Mollett’s work does not exist in opposition to imagery and representation, but as a vibrating membrane between these two modes of understanding. This exhibition provides an intimate look into this young artist’s singular approach to abstraction.
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About the Artist
Francesca Mollett (b. 1991, Bristol, UK) received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (UK) in 2020, having previously studied at the Royal Drawing School and Wimbledon College of Art, London (UK).
Recent solo exhibitions include Corso, GRIMM, New York, NY (US), 2024; Noon, Pond Society, Shanghai (CN); Halves, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) and Low Sun, Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA (US), 2023; The Moth in the Moss, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (UK); Spiral Walking at Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US), 2022 and Wild Shade, Informality Gallery, London (UK), 2021. She was included in the group exhibition The Kingfisher’s Wing, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, New York, NY (US), 2022.
Her work has also been featured in numerous group shows including Nature Painting Nature, Pilar Corrias, London (UK); Sympathetic Magic 2, Ginny on Frederick, London (UK), 2024; New British Abstraction, CICA, Vancouver (CA); Considering Female Abstractions, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US), 2023; Sabrina, curated by Russell Tovey, Sim Smith, London (UK); New Romantics, The Artist Room at Lee Eugean Gallery, Seoul (KR); Down in Albion at L.U.P.O. Lorenzelli Projects, Milan, (IT) in 2022; Le coeur encore, The approach, London (UK), 2021 and London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK), 2020.
Mollett’s work can be found in the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US); He Art Museum, Foshan (CN); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (US); K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (HK); Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Pond Society, Shanghai (CN); the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX (US); The David and Indrė Roberts Collection, London (UK); Sainsbury Centre, Norwich (UK) and The University of Oxford, St Hilda’s College Art Collection, Oxford (UK), among others.
