Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead create art that specifically explores ideas of identity, social ritual and the everyday public and private realms in which they are played out. Through participatory works, they subvert sites and engage people complicitly in the creative act.

For once it is art that actually achieves the popular ideal of raising your awareness of everyday life.’ Art Monthly

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Early works such as Social in 1999, drew on the landscape of members' only clubs to create art platforms for performance that invited participation. From 2000, the collaboration further diversified into large scale projects incorporating research, workshops and live events such as Friday Social Evening and My Word is My Bond that activated the local constituency. Recently, they have explored methods of transforming everyday actions into microperformances and have created new forms of performance and audience interaction. Recent works include Club Class, Shops, Artists in Residence at the NRLA 2006 and The People Series. Workshops, tutorials, one-on-one mentoring, seminars and lectures are central to their research and practice.

FrenchMottershead are based in London, UK, and have received funding from Arts Council England, the British Council, Awards for All, CIDA, the Live Art Development Agency, the University of South Florida, the Artists' Development Programme at Chisenhale Dance Space and a London Arts Combined Arts Award. Other commissioning support is detailed with each project.