Frankie is a Northern Irish photographer based in London. Her practice sits on the crossover of representational and abstract photography, blurring those lines to consider what is objective visual reality (is there such a thing) and what is subjective reaction, a dialogue between the imagination, memory and the sensations of the moment. She is particularly drawn to landscapes that have been altered, showing the signs of human activity and the imprint of geo-politics. She recently published a book, ‘Dividing Lines’, a post Brexit essay using the landscapes of northwestern Ireland as a metaphor for the absurdities of borders and the artificial division of material geography.

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She's also a founder member of FIKA book & zine, a new photography book collective which published their first collaborative trilogy in 2024. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, from London to the USA, Greece, France, and the Netherlands and received numerous commendations from a variety of photography competitions.

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But what it's really all about: a sense of the outsider looking in, ‘outsiderness’. It permeates all my work, pretty much whatever the subject. It’s not judgmental - there is connection and empathy but it comes from a place (unchosen) outside, observing, intuiting, noticing and, often literally, sympathizing. She put it down to a peripatetic childhood, arriving too often in new places, the new girl in school. You assess your new circumstances, the groupings and connections between your new friends and you learn very quickly to adapt, like a chameleon, in order to fit in.