About France-Lise McGurn
France-Lise McGurn, born in 1983, has established herself as a distinctive voice through artwork exploring identity, intimacy, and the female gaze. Her artworks span painting, drawing, print, and installation, forming a practice that moves fluidly between media. McGurn’s artwork often blurs the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, producing dreamlike, fragmented narratives that resist fixed interpretation.
The artist’s approach is marked by flowing lines, gestural brushstrokes, and vivid color, lending her compositions immediacy and emotional charge. These qualities extend into editions and prints, where the shift from painting to print retains a tactile, expressive character. Influenced by fashion and textile design, McGurn incorporates pattern and surface, reinforcing the physical presence of each artwork.
A recurring focus within her artworks is the human figure, often women shown in intimate or domestic settings. Rendered through Figurative Abstraction, these scenes challenge traditional ideals of beauty and established representations of femininity. Vulnerability and agency coexist, supported by intuitive handling of paint and line.
Alongside individual works, McGurn’s installations expand her practice into space. Through considered arrangement, artworks form immersive environments that deepen viewer engagement. Across original works, editions, and prints, including original, signed works available for sale, McGurn sustains an inquiry into closeness, memory, and self-representation, allowing each format to carry its own weight.
