Francis Carr artist, designer and lecturer, is a socially motivated traveller across the boundaries between disciplines within the natural and built environment. This has taken him from teaching and pioneering screen printing as a popular medium and legitimate print process to ambitious large scale land art commissions.
His first print 'After the Storm' (1949), the first serigraph to be produced in the UK, was shown at the Arts Council Exhibition 'The Mechanised Image' (1978) and is now in the collection of The British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings.
Through his seminal book 'A Guide to Screen Process Printing' Vista books 1961, conferences, exhibitions and over one hundred articles published in national and international trade and art journals he promoted the process, and attracted amongst his students Eduardo Paolozzi to his printing making classes.
Since 1967 he has organized a number of environmental art exhibitions and also established the 'Landscape and Arts Network’ (www.landartnet.org). Some of his major land art commissions include the royal opening of the ‘New Harbour Commemorative Area’, Port Talbot, Wales and the 'Tree of Life Maze’, Kazakhstan. He was artist in residence at Gun Powder Park, Lee Valley Regional Park from 1999 to 2002. In 2004, at the invitation of the United Nations, he was appointed jury member for the 'Seeing the South' land art competition in Beirut, Lebanon.
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