CURRENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS
5-18 Oct 2023: “Transparent as a Dragonfly,” group show at Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome, Italy. Based on the writings of Italo Calvino in 'Invisible Cities' and curated by Lesley Bunch & Rita Carta Manias from ArtCan.
19th of Oct. 2023, Bloomsbury Festival of Poetry at ArtWorkers Guild, Bloomsbury London
18 Nov-10 Dec 2023, BRIDGE collaboration, Tjönedala Konsthallm, Sweden. ArtCan artists making collaborative work with Swedish artists from the ÖSKG studio. Curated by Pernilla Iggstrom and Christel Lundberg.
EXHIBITIONS & PRIZES TO DATE
2023 June show “Pushing papers”, curated by Bodcatgallery in RuptureXibit in Hampton Wick (Presented a paper installation)
2022 Shortlisted for the Clifford Chance purchase prize (“A survey of Printmaking” exhibition)
2021-2022 – MFA at City and Guilds of London School of art
2021 – Artist in residence at the Wetlands Centre in London during 9 months of the pandemic, where she created a large exhibition of cyanotypes and ink works that was shown across the summer of 2021.
COLOR Online- A PmC show in collaboration with ROSL Arts, 2020.
ART UNLOCKED, Orleans House gallery, 2/3/4 October 2020 with ArtsRichmond artists network.
Long-listed for the “Mother Art Prize” (Procreate Project) in June 2020.
2020: TIME, A Printmakers Council exhibition, at Highgate Gallery from the 7th of February 2020. Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, London N6
2019-20 : Selected for shows in Huddle in Hammersmith as part of H&F Artfest and at 245 Hammersmith.
2019: Awagami Factory Mini print exhibition: October to November 2019, Tokushima, Japan
Recentre Artist residency from March to September 2019, Re-centre Hammersmith
2019: End of residency show at RE:CENTRE in Hammersmith :THAMESIS - 5th to 15th of September 2019
2019: Solo show at Southbank Printmakers gallery (April 2019). See photos below.
2019: Part of PmC curated show “Journey” in London, Portsmouth and Chichester
2018: Art residency and group show at Be-gallery in Kyoto with EWAAC
2016-2017-2018: Original Print Fair at Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London
2018: Incognito Show at Royal Over-Seas League
2018: Royal Over-seas League show with the PmC in Saint James's Street, London
2018: Selected for the Lessedra print exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria
2018: Sevenoaks Print Fest - Summer 2018
2017 & 2018: Selected for Summer shows at London Print Studios
2014 to 2016: Curator and exhibiting artist of the West London Original Prints Show: held at Apothecary Gallery CIC in November 2014, and in February 2016, held at Austin Forum (Hammersmith)
2015: PmC curated show in Margate gallery- summer 2015
2015: Participant in group exhibition at Bankside gallery "50 years of Printmakers Council" and part of box set (held in V&A museum collection)
2015: Shortlisted for the National Open Art competition
Member of the Printmakers Council (PMC) and the London Print Studio
2014: Awarded the Printmakers Council Prize, with membership
2013: Kensington and Chelsea College Printmaking Prize
Royal Overseas League in Mayfair- 2018
Southbank Printmakers Gallery at Gabriel’s Wharf, London - 2019
Bloomsbury Poetry festival at ArtWorkers Guild, September 2023
BIO
Diane was born in the South of France and educated in Paris (Classes “prépas” littéraires and Sorbonne MA in comparative literature). She is a European and a British and French citizen. Her studio is located in West London.
She is a member of ArtCan, the Printmakers’Council, the Nature Printing Society and Kew Art studios. She is also a fellow of the RSA since January 2023. She was awarded an MA in Fine Arts from City and Guilds of London school of Art, 2021-2022. She is the founder of The Empress Salon, a community-building initiative to connect artists with their local environment and to foster new audiences around art-making.
See my work on Instagram @dianecfrost // www.printmakerscouncil.com