“My processes have come from specialist roles I’ve held in fabrication and craft over the last decade” Pinnock tells The Wick. “Technical skills like pattern cutting and hand stitching have naturally found their way into my personal work.”

This new body of work, each piece individually stitched by hand, is the result of three years research and making and show how much Pinnock has developed as an artist in this time, abounding with ideas and innovation and developing her own visual style. Pinnock’s champion for The Wick is Jo Baring who explains: “I’m championing Frances Pinnock because her work shows a rare sensitivity to materials. Her sculptures and assemblages feel both deliberate and instinctive, and they invite us to look closely, to trace the marks of making, and to sense the thought that sits just beneath the surface. She draws us into the quiet, shifting space between memory and imagination.”

Baring adds that “Frances explores how fragments of experience can be re-formed into something both tangible and dreamlike. Each work feels layered with time, gesture and emotion. I’m drawn to how she treats materials not just as substances to shape, but as collaborators in her process. For her, making as a language in itself. Frances is an artist who builds worlds from the smallest details, and I’m inspired by the honesty and rigour that underpin her approach.”

“My works are loosely diaristic but their influences are quite broad and changeable, and often the starting point is hard to pin down” Pinnock says. “They might begin in observation or affect but these details are then distilled or abstracted. I’ve come to think of my work in literary terms and keep returning to the idea of the vignette or the noctuary, as recordings to be revisited.”

Last year Pinnock was awarded the Ingram Prize for her work Light Sleeper, a wall-mounted piece, a square of textured obsidian-colour, crafted with leather, brass, horsehair, iron sulphate, calligraphy ink and shellac. Pinnock’s next exhibition, due to open at the Lightbox Gallery & Museum this week, takes up the same title, and presents Pinnock’s works alongside a selection from The Ingram Collection, blurring sculpture and painting in the same way Pinnock’s assemblages do. “It’s been a light and playful body of work to make, alongside the slow-moving sculptures my previous show.” The artist reflects. It shows another facet to the oeuvre of this fascinating artist.