Frances Pinnock is an artist whose practice explores the possibilities of oak bark tanned leather as a medium for sculpture and object making. Working primarily with full thickness sole bend, produced by the last remaining oak bark pit tanners in the UK, Frances employs traditional hand stitching techniques and pattern cutting to investigate and express form, shape and volume.
Frances received her QEST Garfield Weston Foundation Scholarship in 2017 in order to train one to one in traditional hand sewn shoemaking. She now employs these hand stitching techniques within her sculpture work.
