Could you describe your work in the Art in the Sky exhibition? Tell me a bit about the research themes and subjects that feed into your work.

The work that's in the Out in the Sky exhibition, so I have three large kites which are my breath kites.

So they link to my work that is rooted in my affinity and love of water.

I'm a channel swimmer and I've spent a lot of time in the water so it informs my practice.

They're made, they are printed kites so the process is quite long and complex.

So it starts with a swim and then photographing the movement of the water in my breath and then creating a plate, a photographic plate which is then printed with an intaglio printmaking process and then using Japanese paper and printing onto the Japanese paper And then I'm constructing the kite and each of the circles of the breath kites represents one breath of a swim.

So in total each of those breath kites, first breath, second breath, third breath, represent approximately two and a half minutes worth of swimming of breaths, the 60 breaths.

And how does this work relate to your previous work and ways of working? So my kites have

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I'm Frances, and I live in Northumberland.

My background, so I also studied fashion and textiles originally, but I could never decide on, I also love sculpture, I also love photography, I love film, and I could never fit neatly into a box, so kind of fashion was, and textiles, I could explore lots of things and bring everything in.

And then about 20 years ago, I was working freelance and I met a friend of all of ours and did some work and she was working for her.

And she said, oh, would you like to go to a kite festival? I said, oh, yes, please.

It's in Italy.

And I go, yes, absolutely.

Thank you.