"Messages From Old Friends Never Expire presents a series of paintings, exploring conversations between durations of time, through material methods and melancholy thinking.

This body of work explores experimental mark making, scratching into the painting. Revealing what lies underneath the surface, while old scrap canvas is embedded onto the skin of the paintings, presenting a dialogue between past and present realities. The work explores researching old drawings from childhood, dissecting their form, shape, inserting it into the current moment. The work provides a sense of loneliness and comfort, exploring the complexities of reflection." 

Lotte Frances’s work explores loneliness, queerness, memories in all their complexities. Lotte’s work uses a unique visual language that is delicate, immersive and playful. Lotte employs vivid colour and experimental mark-making to communicate their experience. Absorbing from their experiences and surroundings, these abstracted paintings encourage reflection and imagination.

Lotte Frances is an emerging artist living and working on Wurundjeri Woi wurrung Country. Lotte is a recent graduate of Fine Art Honours from RMIT University. Lotte has exhibited locally and internationally including Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Five walls in Footscray, ØL and Laid Bug in Japan and has published a book of drawings through Stray Pages Press.