2020 for CHOHW’s (Come Hell or High Water) Holding the Foreshore, The Thames foreshore, Limehouse, London.
2011BACK to FRONT (installation) Woolwich, a Cafe Gallery Projects (CGPLondon) Offsite Project www.youtube.com
2005-06 'Collecting Time: the Living and the Dead': (live house installation) at Woolwich: a CGPLondon Offsite Project.
2003-04 (live house installation) at Woolwich: CGPLondon Offsite Project.
2001 'View' (installation) Dilston Grove, CGPLondon
2001 (live house installation) at Woolwich: a CGPLondon Offsite Project.
Group Exhibitions
2023 'Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain 1960-2022' The Hepworth, Wakefield.
2016Cold Storage with Liz Harrison, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich
2014de Nada (performance) Gallery SoTo Do’s 17th Congress of Performance Art curated by Theodor Ricco and Annabelle Widmann, Babylon Beach, Santa Eularia, Ibiza
2013-14Contemporary Art Society: Damn braces: Bless relaxes (documentation) Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and mima, Middlesbrough (documentation) curated by Helen Kaplinsky
2013Little Shadow (performance) for Quare with Kristina Page, Spitalfields City Farm, London
2013the calm/crowd project (performance) LUPA17 London
2013when I get home I hope (simultaneous screening) South London Gallery, with Liz Harrison, Jefford Horrigan and Susan Trangmar
20115 minutes with 5 years (dogs) (installation) in PROJECT-ion APT Gallery, London
2011Still Live (exhibition) part of CONCRETE GEOMETRIES and PREVIEW (2010) Architectural Association, London
2010 The Clearing (discussion event) for ‘This is Not a Gateway Festival’ with Julie Bacon, John Newling , Victoria Lane and James Geurts, London
2009Hairdressers (performance) and cab drivers (video) in ‘Congress for Performance Art’, Sacramento, USA.
20095 minutes with 5 years (dogs) (performance) in INTERRUPTED CORRESPONDENCE/ VICE-VERSA: FRAGMENTS for Five Years JamesTaylor Gallery London. www.fiveyears.org.uk
2008Said, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts/South London Gallery
2008Second Sex Dinner (performance), Chelsea College of Art, London
2008 ‘Deptford X 10th Anniversary exhibition’, APT Gallery, London
Commissions
2017 (live installation) Woolwich, an offsite project for Raven Row’s: '56 Artillery Lane', curated by Amy Budd and Naomi Pearce.
2016 Intervention with Marianne Mueller for the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art, London.
2011 Installation/intervention in Concrete Geometries, Architectural Association, London, curators: Marianne Mueller and Olaf Kneer. www.concrete-geometries.net
2008Gold Balls (installation) in ‘GHOST TRADE and the Spectre of Change’, Deptford X, curated by Julia Alvarez
Artist’s Presentations and Projects
2015House Projects: lecture for (Dis)identifications curated by Alexandra Kokoli and Catherine Dormor, ICA London
2014House Projects: lecture for 17th Congress of Performance Art, Babylon Beach, Ibiza
2014House Projects: lecture and crit for AA Berlin laboratory, Udk, Berlin
2014 presented ‘level’ for Architecture in Effect with Marianne Mueller, Research Symposium at Chalmers, Sweden
2014 contributed to Landscapes: from the Romantic to the Digital Age symposium at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
2013 panel member at Beaconsfield, Art and Feminism, London
2013 Devised and facilitated preparatory workshops with Jean Campbell, Michele Fuirer and Lucy Wilson with Suzanne Lacy for her ‘Silver Action’ project for Tate Modern
2013 Presentation Concrete Geometries-Spatial Form and Social Behaviour with Marianne Mueller ‘Rethinking the Social in Architecture’: at Umea School of Architecture, Sweden
2013 Panel member at Beaconsfield, ‘Art and Feminism’, London
2010 Presentation for Concrete Geometries Symposium at the Architectural Association, London
2008 Curator of ‘Concrete Dreams: Art, Architecture and Social Space’ with Liz Harrison for APT gallery/openhouse, London
2001- Senior Lecturer at Camberwell College of the Arts, CCW, UAL
Writing by Fran Cottell
2024 for 'Artists at Home: Studios, Practices and Identities'. Eds:Jill Journeaux and Imogen Racz, Bloomsbury
2021 KTPress.
2020 Book chapter with Marianne Mueller for ‘Bentham and the Arts’ publisher: UCL
2020 for 'Salon For A Speculative Future' Edited by Monika Oechsler with Sharon Kivland, MA BIBLIOTHEQUE
2013 ‘Concrete Geometries-Spatial Form and Social Behaviour’ with Marianne Mueller, Rethinking the Social in Architecture: The Reader (Sweden: Architecture in Effect)
2013 ‘Fran Cottell’, Mo Throp (ed), The Performance Dinners, p.30
2012House: From Display to BACK to FRONT, Ebook, KT press
Writing About Fran Cottell
Sections in books
2021 by Katy Deepwell: in ‘Fran Cottell: The House Projects’ KTPress.
2014 H. Kaplinsky ‘Own or Be Owned’ The Best Is Not Too Good For You: New Approaches to Public Collections in England (The Contemporary Art Society and Whitechapel Art Gallery)
2013 N. Pearce, ‘Context III: Fran Cottell, Ron Henocq and Mike Nelson’ extracts from interviews and photographs Michael Heilgemeir, The Nomadic Studio, pp.45-50
2013 Critical Writing in Art and Design, Royal College of Art, After Butlers Wharf: Essays on a Working Building, photographs pp.60,61,65,109
2012 ‘M. Mueller and O.Kneer Concrete Geometries’, Projects Review (London: AA publications), image no.25
2012 M. Mueller and O.Kneer ‘Concrete Geometries’, AA 2011 Yearbook, pp.300, 301, 303, 357, 358
Articles in journals
2012 Marianne Mueller ‘The Exhibition as Social Ground’, OASE 88 Journal for Architecture, ‘Exhibitions. Showing and Producing Architecture’, pp.90-94
2007 Katy Deepwell ‘Social Feminism and the Question of Difference, Fran Cottell’, n.paradoxa international feminist art Journal, Vol.19 ‘IN/difference’, pp.90-93
2011 Kat Austen ‘CultureLab: Experimenting with people and space’, New Scientist (review of Concrete Geometries), May 2011
2011 Victoria Rance ‘Fran Cottell: BACK to FRONT: An offsite project with CGP London, London, 8 - 9 October 2011’, review in Artists’ Newsletterwww.an-n.co.uk
2010 Fran Cottell’s Gold Balls feature in photographs of Michael Landy’s ‘Art Bin’ South London Gallery exhibition; see Michael Landy 'Perfecting the Art of Self-destruction' BBC news online www.bbc.co.uk and 'Eyewitness' The Guardian (London) www.guardian.co.uk, also shown on ‘The Culture Show’ episode 22 (BBC2), 29 October 2010