John Frankland is a sculptor, visiting lecturer at Slade School of Art and Goldsmiths College among others, and tutor, since 2002, at the Royal College of Art. He lives and works in London.
John Frankland was born in 1961 in Rochdale and obtained his BA from Goldsmiths College, London. Recent exhibitions include The Gathering at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire, Boule to Braid at the Lisson Gallery, London, and John Frankland and Elizabeth Magill at the Russian Club, London. He has made several public art projects, most recently Boulder – which comprised of the installation of two monumental granite boulders into two London parks, filmed and documented by Chris Dorley-Brown. He has had solo exhibitions at Matt’s Gallery, Peer and the Royal Festival Hall in London, Project Art Centre, Dublin, and had work on permanent display at the Saatchi Gallery (Boundary Road) from 1995 to 1998. His work is in private collections in London and Sweden and in the Arts Council and British Council collections. He is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.