Francesca’s family and relationships are key influences to her work, stylistically influenced by Noir and Neo Noir film genres and concentrating on themes of memory and family melodrama, the resulting bodies of work are a rich tableau of human emotion.
Primarily interested in how family histories and narratives are at one with the spaces they occupy and the family romances therein. Francesca’s work is situated within the family album and the self-portrait in conjunction with constructed memory and nostalgia. Initially focusing on how family and personal experiences often (melo) dramatise identity, reworking herself as partner, daughter and sister, merging actual and constructed memory, thus blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction.
More recently, Francesca’s explorations extend through space and place, working with ‘memory spaces’, documentation and preservation, exploring gender roles and sociocultural myths of womanhood. Exploring autobiographical experiences from the viewpoint of a woman, wife, ex wife and mother. With the introduction of an ‘unfamiliar’ space, narrating the scenes of family dramas and experiences, constructing a notion of a space, domestic or otherwise, as familiar and uncanny.
