Fran Carter

Artist statement:

LOCKDOWN II.
The world around us silently rages and ravages
Bodies, lungs, and livelihoods.
But also we are safe, if not divided
Arms raised and shovels digging underground.
Stay home, stay regulated, and take prescribed daily exercise
Zoom, zoom, zoom!
Set your backdrop, pretend you’re somewhere else
Though nothing seems better than anywhere but here.
Lock the door on your stagnating thoughts and news reports
Head for the hills, avoiding the ever present boogie man lurking in the wake of a passing stranger
Ground your feet on the forest floor
…and breathe

Bio:

Fran Carter is a Wellington based maker and recent mentee of the 2023-24 Handshake 8 mentorship programme. She graduated in 2016 from the Whitireia NZ Contemporary Jewellery programme, where she gained her BA and Graduate Diploma in Applied Visual Arts. Fran was the recipient of a scholarship from the NZ Federation of Graduate Women, and was awarded the 2015 Whitireia-Toi Pōneke Artist residency where she completed her postgraduate studies and subsequent major solo show, MOOP (Matter Out Of Place).
Fran continues to exhibit her work around NZ and internationally, highlights of which can found on her Instagram @francarter_jewels. She is also a co-founder of an ongoing collaborative project @moments_of_jewelleryness with fellow jeweller, Caroline Thomas.
Fran’s work is held in private collections, and she was included in the selection to Wunderrūma, an iconic touring exhibition curated by Karl Fritsch & Warwick Freeman in 2014. She is represented by The Jewel & The Jeweller in New Plymouth, Vu Jewellers in Queenstown, and Mason & Collins in Wellington.

Fran Carter

LOCKDOWN II, 2023

Artist statement:

LOCKDOWN II.
The world around us silently rages and ravages
Bodies, lungs, and livelihoods.
But also we are safe, if not divided
Arms raised and shovels digging underground.
Stay home, stay regulated, and take prescribed daily exercise
Zoom, zoom, zoom!
Set your backdrop, pretend you’re somewhere else
Though nothing seems better than anywhere but here.
Lock the door on your stagnating thoughts and news reports
Head for the hills, avoiding the ever present boogie man lurking in the wake of a passing stranger
Ground your feet on the forest floor
…and breathe

Bio:

Fran Carter is a Wellington based maker and recent mentee of the 2023-24 Handshake 8 mentorship programme. She graduated in 2016 from the Whitireia NZ Contemporary Jewellery programme, where she gained her BA and Graduate Diploma in Applied Visual Arts. Fran was the recipient of a scholarship from the NZ Federation of Graduate Women, and was awarded the 2015 Whitireia-Toi Pōneke Artist residency where she completed her postgraduate studies and subsequent major solo show, MOOP (Matter Out Of Place).
Fran continues to exhibit her work around NZ and internationally, highlights of which can found on her Instagram @francarter_jewels. She is also a co-founder of an ongoing collaborative project @moments_of_jewelleryness with fellow jeweller, Caroline Thomas.
Fran’s work is held in private collections, and she was included in the selection to Wunderrūma, an iconic touring exhibition curated by Karl Fritsch & Warwick Freeman in 2014. She is represented by The Jewel & The Jeweller in New Plymouth, Vu Jewellers in Queenstown, and Mason & Collins in Wellington.