Francis Whorrall-Campbell
Francis Whorrall-Campbell is an artist, researcher, writer and sometimes art critic from the UK. Their writing undertakes a materialist investigation of sexual subjectivity. Guided by research into the pasts and presents of gender transition, a relationship between making an artwork and making a (gendered) self emerges as a method of thinking critically about how identities and desires are formed in interaction with the world and narratives around them. In his artistic practice, Francis uses sculpture and image-making to approach form as an infrastructure of representation. He has a particular interest in techniques of reproduction (copying, bootlegging, faking, defrauding), the logics of property, and the affects and effects of brutality. Francis’ work has been included in exhibitions at Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2025); The Ryder Projects, Madrid (2025); Bologna.cc, Amsterdam (2025); Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2024); EACC, Castellon (2023); and the National Sculpture Factory, Cork (2023). In 2024 they were a resident on the Principal Residency programme at La Becque . They are also currently working on a serialised novella about sex change and the surveillance state entitled THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED.