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Frankie Fathers is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans installation, sculpture, and film, exploring themes of identity, myth, and loss. She primarily uses textiles to engage with these ideas, offering a feminist and absurdist perspective. Her practice is both playful and profound, flippant and forceful, creating a visual language that balances the familiar with the fantastical. These dualities invite reflection on gender, power, and myth. Recently, however, her art has become deeply personal as she navigates the emotional complexities of caring for her father, Michael, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2021.
This transition into caregiving has significantly shaped the artist’s practice, forcing her to grapple with the emotions tied to caring for a loved one whose memory and identity are fading. It has challenged her understanding of memory, loss, and care, prompting her to explore these themes through her work. The act of making has become a way for the artist to articulate the frustration and helplessness she experiences as a caregiver.
One of her recent installations, Wigwam for a Goose’s Bridle, directly responds to her father’s deteriorating condition and his obsession with stacking twigs. Michael, once meticulous about arranging wood for his fire, now struggles to recreate the same structures, and his once carefully arranged wood piles have become erratic. This shift reflects the cognitive decline associated with dementia—he can no longer remember how to stack the wood or, at times, even where he sleeps or who she is.
Alongside her individual artistic practice, the artist is also committed to social art practice and fostering community engagement and collaboration. As a co-founder of the Campervan Collective, she works with a group of international experimental artists who met at the Royal College of Art to create public art projects and free workshops that encourage dialogue and connection. Their aim is to bring art into communities, creating spaces for people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with the creative process.
Alongside her art practice, Frankie is also a BAFTA-winning documentary producer/director.
Contact:frankiefathers@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS
2025: Wigwam for a Goose’s Bridle, Pier2, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2024: Future Archaeologies, Camden Art Centre, London
2024: Textile Junction, Electro Studios, Hastings, UK
2024: Ode to She Monster (video), Tate Lates, Tate Modern, London & Genesis Cinema, London
2024: Everything Must Go, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2024: Make Do & Mend, Take Courage Gallery, London
2021: I didn’t Lick it, Bruton Museum, UK
PUBLIC ART
2024: Founded Campervan Collective to democratise art and make and show art in public spaces
2024: Camper Van Collective: After Judy, Hyde Park, London, UK
2024: Camper Van Collective: Art Picnic, Battersea Park, London, UK
2015-2021 Pasted street art all over London with the tag Tape_Geek
PRESS
Elsie Magazine, Issue 2 (2019), Sticker Stories: Interview with Tape_Geek
ART RESIDENCIES
2025: Pier-2 Artist-in-Residence Program (PAIR), Taiwan
2023: Berlin Art Institute/BAI international residency programme, Germany
2015: Yangon Art & Heritage Festival - My Yangon My Home, Myanmar