Frances (b. 2000, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington) graduated in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Te Waka Tūhura, Elam School of Fine Arts, and a Bachelor of Arts in Media, Film and Television (Arts Scholar) from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
During her undergraduate studies, Frances founded and hosted Various Artists, the arts hour on New Zealand’s largest independent radio station, 95bFM. She also established and served as president of the Fine Arts Students’ Association at Elam.
As a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, she has been awarded an MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture and is currently pursuing an MSc in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology. She is the recipient of the 2025 Lincoln College Visiting Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and works with Contemporary HUM, a digital hub supporting the international projects of New Zealand creative practitioners.
Her practice and research are concerned with the avenues art offers for reconciling troubling histories and imagining hope-filled futures.
