Curriculum Vitae

Email: franmezzetti@hotmail.com
Visual artist; Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland

Biography:

Frances Mezzetti is a visual artist based in Dublin.  Mezzetti holds a BA hon in Fine Art from NCAD (1998) and a MSc in Art Psychotherapy from Queen Margaret University Edinburgh (2011).  Her extensive background in art therapy and in the field of well-being practices have influenced her concept of performance as a means of “movement to a way of awareness”. Mezzetti’s practice explores the themes of gender and place from a feminist perspective. Previous exhibitions include site specific work with Univ. of Trieste, Italy (2022),  Nairs Fundaziun, Switzerland,(2021), BIFPA (2020), Greenway Boston (2018), ‘Out of Site’ series Promenade (2008), Rathmines Festival (2007) and York Street (2006). Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally. She works in performance art, including six years of events with The Performance Collective, and in site specific, installation and video, with an emphasis on collaboration with artists across disciplines

Awards
Awards have been received from The Lab Gallery and Dublin City Council 2023 and South Tipperary Arts Centre and Bealtaine with collaborating artist Pauline Cummins, 2022: Awarded Basic Income for Artists 2022: Fingal Co Council with artist Joyce Garvey 2021 and 2022:Bbeyond, Boston USA, Mobius Inc and Ulster University, The Boston Foundation and The Greenway Culture Ireland 2018: New York Foundation for the Arts and Culture Ireland 2014: Bbeyond and Culture Ireland in AccionMad 2013: The Arts Council of Ireland Flights to The Netherlands 1999 and 2003: The Arts Council of Ireland for Special Project Award for the Appearance Project 1999-2001.

Residencies
Irish Museum of Modern Art studio 2001-2022: James Joyce Summer School Trieste University 2022: Nairs Fundazion, Switzerland 2021: CourCommune France 2021:Tyrone Gutherie Centre 2019 and 2015: Arte Studio Ginestrelle Assisi 2019: Digital Media award The Fire Station 2013: Sheffield Hallam University 1999: Mainistir House Arann Islands 1998:
Erasmus The Brera Milan 1997.

Education
Art psychotherapy International MSc Queen Margaret University Edinburgh Scotland 2011: BA Fine Art Sculpture and Art History in the National College of Art and Design with hons 1:1, 1998.
Trained in Amerta Movement with Suprapto Suryodarmo and Dr. Sandra Reeve in Indonesia, Ireland and UK www.moveintolife.com from 2000- to date.

Currently
Launching the publication Walking in the Way: Performing Masculinity Cummins & Mezzetti.

Selected Exhibitions

2023 A World of Appearances The Lab Gallery Dublin with publication launch by Cummins & Mezzetti. Photographic, video and sound documentation of the 12 year collaborative project on Walking in the Way with artist Pauline Cummins.

2022 Earth Rising Bbeyond performance at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).

Walking in the Way Retrospective exhibition and publication launch South Tipperary Art Centre

Lucia of Trieste Performance and video installation in the James Joyce Summer School in Trieste University Italy.

2021 And they tell me… IMMA live performance with women from the Family Resource Center in Inchicore on 16 days of global action on gender based violence

Lucia in Switzerland Performances, video projection and installation Schoul Switzerland with Joyce Garvey.

2020 Man age kerchief Belfast International Live Art Festival, Performance and artist talk.

Eventbrite showing of film edits on The Lucia Project with Joyce Garvey.

2019 Live Art with FEM performances Girona, Catalonia.

Honestly Live Art and Video installation, Culture Night Abbey Artists Studio Marlborough St.Dublin.

Lucia and the Garden Performance and installation with Joyce Garvey in CourCommune Voulx, France

I don’t know you. Humanism in Process : performance with Sandra Johnston. Queens University Belfast.

2018 Il Fuoco, Videos, performances in The Olive Grove and in Le Logge Gallery International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ginestrelle, Assisi. Italy.

A Nose for a Truth, Performance on the Greenway Boston USA with Bbeyond and Mobius Inc.

Equinox to Equinox Bbeyond, Performance In Boston, 2018 Venice and Catalonia 2017.

Whose Feet? Lucia of Trieste Live performance, installation with video and sound with choreographer Libby Seward and Dancers and collaborator Joyce Garvey.

Fertile Ground performance and installation on Art 41. Of the Irish Constitution.

2015 Excuse me I’m not finished Six days of Live performance with The Performance Collective National College of Art and Design (NCAD) gallery.

2014 Sibéal Gender and Metamorphosis Symposium Trinity College Dublin Performative Paper on Walking in the Way. Cummins and Mezzetti

2013 Group Ego Trip 1 New York Foundation for the Arts(NYFA) Video installation and live performance with Sinead Cullen.

Proprioception, Workshop facilitator and live performance with John Conroy in various locations in Kilkenny.

Walking in the Way with Pauline Cummins in AccionMad13 Edicion, Madrid, Contenedores Sevilla and Desiderata Malaga Spain.

Encounter Echo Echo Durational performance, Derry, Northern Ireland.

Generation, Live improvisation durational performance with the Performance Collective in The Dock Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Roscommon.

Track, It has No Name addressing institutional abuse. Durational performance, installation and conference in DIT Broadcast Gallery curated by Liz Burns.

Fill Fill. Unit 1 Performance response to historic location and touristic transformation. Parliament Street and Dublin Castle.

The Performance Collective live in Unit 1. Dublin.

2012 Fan performance on mental health. Dublin Live Art Festival The Back Loft Dublin 8.

Transversal Performance response to the history of the Jam Factory. The Chocolate Factory Durational performance.

Subject to On-going Change, The Performance Collective, Galway Arts Centre in Galway Arts Festival. 14 days of live performance.

2012 Walking in the Way Labour Show in London, Derry, Dublin and Istanbul, eight hour live performances in each city.

Carried on the breath of Sheelagh Performance Festival in Candhi Suka Indonesia Live performance with Usha Mahenthiralingam and Maya Coburn.

2010 Right Here, Right Now. Durational performance in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

Walking in the Way with Pauline Cummins in Edinburgh.

The Performance Collective durational performance Temple Bar Gallery.

2009 Walking in the Way with Pauline Cummins in Belfast and Dublin.

In the Shadow of the Ram. The Performance Collective, Catalyst Art Centre Belfast.
Supported by Visual Artists Ireland.

2008 Between and Beyond, Promenade Out of Site performance with Dublin City Council Open Spaces curated by Michelle Browne.

2007 Pastimes and Arcadia Terms and Conditions, Mermaid Art Centre Bray Co Wickow.
Live performance and video installation.

Cochlear Vibrations, Out of Site Rathmines Festival Dublin

2006 York St Stories Out of Site Fringe Festival Performance Dublin.

2004 Still beyond the Pale Fringe Festival, Kilkenny with Alanna O’Kelly.

Anam a Deoraí Performance and installation at the Workhouse, Callan and the Priory, Graiguenamanagh. Supported by The Butler Gallery.

2003 Performances with Alanna O’Kelly in Eindhoven and Michiko Kanzawa.

2001 Soundin with Slavek Kwi Performances in Grange Gorman and in the National Concert Hall.

Appearance show and conference in Art House with Sandra Johnston and Pauline Cummins

2000 Apperances series of performances in Cork, Laragh co Wicklow and Belfast with Sandra Johnston and Pauline Cummins

Market Place Belfast performance with Bbeyond

1999 If the Dead could go shopping what would they buy? Performance in Flip with stories attached to objects. Temple Bar in the Dublin Fringe festival.

Eva99+ Reduced Vocal performances and installation by ADF (Mezzetti, Amanda Coogan and Declan Rooney) in The Belltable Arts Centre Limerick.

Bibliography
Marshall, Catherine Ed., 2022 Walking in the Way: Performing Masculinity Cummins &
Mezzetti. WAAG Publication.
Kate Antosik-Parsons, 2020 – link here
Phillips, Áine, Ed., 2015 Performance Art in Ireland: A History
PANI Performance Art in Northern Ireland Bbeyond
O’Brien, Paul Ed., Remmoration in the work of Allana O’Kelly Thoughtlines 3