Frankie Anderton

About

Frankie Anderton (B.2001) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Wiltshire, currently based in Southeast London. She looks to use her practice to reclaim female and queer narratives. Here she finds herself asking and answering questions around her own identity as she unravels her relationships with the womxn around her and how this relates to her own experiences as a feminist, and how her feminist identity interacts with her queerness through her relationships with womxn, whether that’s familial, friendship or romantic.
As she navigates these relationships, her practice investigates an intergenerational lens when exploring feminism, this allows her to consider specific womxn in her life, like her grandmother and mother, and how they all interact and impact each other and other relationships. This cyclical method of thinking opens an avenue of concept, context, and composition and how they can all interact and influence the research and making process of Frankie’s works.
This allows her to consider collage as a main point of media within her practice, whether that’s through traditional collage making, combination of various mediums within a piece or the collage of concepts and stories. This broad concept of the ‘collage’ presents relatable narratives for the audience as well as allowing her to validate and witness all the singular elements inspiring her practices as integral parts to one another.
This pushes her aim to reclaim narrative and share stories of womxnhood, whether that’s her own or sharing the communal ‘female experience’ from her conversations and relationships with those around her. As she tries to understand all these elements, she often looks to explore memory within these stories. Particularly her own memories as she notices the way stories change over time as people choose to ignore or add details to make the most out of their histories.
This idea of misremembrance is key when she investigates her relationships with womxn, as she identifies the reality and fantasy of her own mind this allow her to ask more questions of why does this happen? How does this affect these relationships when she asks herself what was and what could have? Does imagining her grandmother as an intersectional fifth wave feminist act as a tool of forgiveness for her not always being what she needed her to be?
These thoughts and stories establish themselves in a multi medium array of pieces, specifically written and spoken word, visual media collages and installations of objects and belongings. She is curious about how various mediums and textures can allow one to delve further into nostalgia and memory to set scenes and show ‘snapshots’ of these feminist stories and how this allows audiences to connect to their own histories and memories and how this then deepens the connections between womxn, allowing more stories to be explored.