Artist Abstract:
Mollett’s bounteous approach is to experience abstraction in full flight. Her mark-making deploys dashes, daubs, palette knife impasto scrapes, gestural lines, and patches, each of different weights and movement. Turpentine or damar varnish make her oils translucent and malleable, relational, and in conversation rather than talking over each other. Individual marks conglomerate into lyrical phrases that slip and slide into place on their shared common ground. The composition also apes nature’s sublime marriage of order and chaos. Irregular fields in lighter tones compress busier, dappled passages, in the manner rocks in an ancient grotto might appear amongst shrubbery, herbs and wildflowers.

This is painting that asks you not to identify or categorise, but to bring yourself fully to it, to cast off jadedness, cynicism, and preconceptions. This is painting that contains a mystery revealed only in the experience of it. It is a portal or channel rather than a static expression. There is an unapologetic and visceral pleasure in Mollett’s painting, a sense of colour and balance, energy and flow, that together connects with a greater, if unknowable, whole; an embracing of being. – Dominic Eichler, Berlin, 2026

Francesca Mollett was born in 1991 in Bristol and lives and works in London. Mollett‘s solo exhibitions include: Buried shadow, Grimm, New York (2026); Annual Honesty, Modern Art, London (2025); Elsewhere, Warehouse, Dallas (2025); Corso, GRIMM, New York (2024); Noon, Pond Society, Shanghai (2023); Halves, GRIMM, Amsterdam (2023); Low Sun, Micki Meng, San Francisco (2023); The Moth in the Moss, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022); Spiral Walking, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: The Descendants, K11 Musea, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong (2023); New British Abstraction, CICA, Vancouver (2023). Mollett’s work can be found in the collections of: K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Kunstmuseum, The Hague; Pond Society, Shanghai; The University of Oxford, and St Hilda’s College Art Collection, Oxford.