Frances Disley

Frances Disley is a print-maker, artist and curator based in Liverpool. Her work explores colour and form as well as having a strong connection with natural history.

Personal life and education Frances Disley was born in Warrington in 1976. In 2004, she followed her BA in fine art printmaking from the University of Wolverhampton with a master's degree in printmaking at the Royal College of Art. She has been manager of the Bluecoat Print Studios in Liverpool and lectured at Liverpool Hope University. She is based in Liverpool.

Practice and exhibitions Disley's works has been part of several individual and solo exhibitions. She tries to show her thought processes about colour and form when creating an artwork, including using her own body to animate the works. She has subsequently acted as an artist advisor in commissioning new works by artists.

Disley's works have been shown in exhibitions, including: 2015 Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Metamorphosis 2016 Liverpool Biennial: Blaze painted on a double-decker bus; I’m a really good dancer video at the India Buildings. Her work was a response to the natural science collection at the 2022 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, as part of the Refractive Pool exhibition of work by local artists.