TRACING ECHOES
Mark Francis
17 January - 14 March 2026
Solstice Level 3 Gallery
Solstice Arts Centre is delighted to announce TRACING ECHOES, a major exhibition by acclaimed Irish artist Mark Francis. Known for his dynamic and visually arresting paintings, Francis creates works charged with movement, sound, and rhythm. His practice combines intense sequences of colour within tightly gridded structures, generating a compelling tension between order and chaos.
There is an agitation in Francis’s work - a pulse, a vibration - as if the forms and colours are trying to break free, bleed into one another, or shift beyond their boundaries. His longstanding engagement with science provides fertile ground for exploration, transforming the invisible and the imagined into striking visual language. While technological feats inform his imagery, Francis reminds us that the true marvel lies in the unknown, where questions often prove more intriguing than answers.
For TRACING ECHOES, Francis presents new paintings, charcoal drawings, and a significant new commission for Solstice: Listening Field, the artist’s first moving image work. This immersive piece expands his visual vocabulary into time-based media, offering audiences a fresh perspective on his ongoing investigations into rhythm, perception, and the unseen.
This new work will also feature as part of Francis’s representation of the Republic of San Marino at the 61st Venice Biennale.
Mark Francis is represented by Kerlin Gallery. Mark Francis’s work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Tate, London and Liverpool; Whitechapel Gallery, Design Museum, and the Royal Academy in London; The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
Announcing new edition
Solstice Arts Centre are delighted to announce the launch of a new print edition by Mark Francis, Phase.
All proceeds to support TRACING ECHOES at Solstice Arts Centre.
Image Detail: Mark Francis, Phase, 2025 archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm edition of 25. 61 x 40 cm / 24 x 15.7 in paper size
Exhibition Details:
Venue: Solstice Arts Centre
Dates: 17 January -14 March 2026
Opening Reception: 17 January, 2:30 p.m.
Admission: Free