FRANCES LIBEAU
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Solo exhibitions
Gus Fisher Gallery ‘Changing Room’. 2026 [Forthcoming]
My cruel enemy grazes on my pain and feeds herself
RM Gallery & Project Space, Tāmaki Makaurau (2024) [multimedia installation]
Women in Love
mother? gallery (2018) Curated by Selina Ershadi & Leah Mulgrew. [Multi-media installation & performance]
Group exhibitions
Te Tuhi, 2026 [Forthcoming]
Tauranga Art Gallery, 2026 [Forthcoming]
Collaborations
Selina Ershadi: ‘fugue notes’, Leap to the Place of Two Pools, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2025) Curated by Erin Robideaux Gleeson. [sound design]
Selina Ershadi چشم چشمه My throat/a shelter, Physics Room, Ōtautahi. Curated by Amy Weng (2024) [sound design + exhibition sound design]
George Watson (Ngāti Porou, Moriori, Ngāti Mutunga): 'They are cruel', in Kōtiro, Emepaea (2022) Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. [Original score, sound design & sound installation design]
Lula Cucchiara (dir.) Fiona Clark: Unafraid (Curious/Cucchiara Films, 2021). [Original musical score]
Frances Libeau & Sriwhana Spong, Auckland Art Gallery (2021). [Live multimedia sonic performance/intervention]
Nathan Joe, An increasingly growing list of things you’ll never do (2020). Original sound design [development]
Sriwhana Spong: castle-crystal (2019) Edinburgh Art Festival; Auckland Art Gallery (2020. [Original musical score & sound design]
Sriwhana Spong: A hook but no fish (2018), Pump House Gallery in London, subsequently shown at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Gesso Artspace in Vienna, & Berlin Atonal. [Original musical score, sound design, installation elements]
Owen Connors & Laura Duffy: Duirvas (2020) Blue Oyster Project Space. [Sound design & writing for digital performance: ‘I will leave you all my body’]
Selina Ershadi: the hands also look (2020), Optimism and its Afterlives, Enjoy Gallery. [Original sound design & musical composition]
Julia Reynolds & Frances Duncan: At the Horizon: Burdens & Possibilities of the Mother Tongue (2020) RM Gallery. [Original sound design & musical composition]
Tru Paraha (dir.): The Gl0aming (2019) Tempo Dance Festival. [Sonic performance]
Biljana Popovic: Synthetic Baby (2018), Physics Room. [Original musical composition ‘Something Entirely Natural’]
Nisha Madhan/Julia Croft/Virginia Frankovich: Medusa (2018); Zanetti Productions: Circa Theatre; Q Theatre. [Original sound design]
Virginia Frankovich: Revolt She Said, Revolt Again (2017) Silo Theatre. [Original sound design]
Veronica Crockford-Pound/Literal Fuck/i.e. Crazy: mind the rock (2016), Rockies. [Performance, installation]
Frances Libeau (dir.), Land of the Long White Stain (Lumiere Industries, 2015). [Writing, directing, creative direction]
Awards/Residencies
2023 Karekare House Artists Residency
2019 Audio Foundation Residency
2018 Excellence in Sound Design Award (winner), Auckland Theatre Awards
2018 Sound Designer of the Year (nomination), Wellington Theatre Awards
2021 Judith Wright Poetry Prize (AU) (third place ‘sea-tree emblem’)
2021 Poetry Aotearoa New Zealand Yearbook (second place ‘making a killing’)
Select Publications
‘notes for radiata’, in Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fateux, Radicant Hocken Collections Te Uare Taoka o Hākena, (University of Otago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka Publication, 2025), pp.23-28.
‘Inland Renderings: Ruminations on Queer Reproduction, Agricultural Archives, and Douglas Wright’s Inland’, ed. Samuel Holloway & Antonia Barnett McIntosh. BLOT: 2 Liveness, 2024. <https://www.blot.online/journal/2/inland-renderings-ruminations-on-queer-reproduction-agricultural-archives/>
‘bach 114’, in Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024: Revelations, ed. Tracey Slaughter (Auckland: Massey University Press, 2024), pp. 103.
‘new blood’, in Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022, ed. Tracey Slaughter (Auckland: Massey University Press, 2022), pp. 157-160.
‘making a killing’ (second prize) & ‘theatre’, in Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021, ed. Tracey Slaughter (Auckland: Massey University Press, 2021), pp. 179-186.
‘waterbody_2’ & ‘does it make you feel funny’, in min-a-rets, vol 12, ed. Gregory Kan & Hao Guang Tse (Compound Press, 2021), pp. 36-41.
‘sea-tree emblem’ (third prize) & ‘to gush’, in Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New & Emerging Poets 2007-2020, ed. Toby Fitch (O L Society, 2021), pp. 110-115.
‘How can we be without border? An archival trace of Selina Ershadi's Hollywood Ave’ (Window Online, 2021). <https://windowgallery.co.nz/2018/how-can-we-be-without-border/>
'Year Zero: The death and rebirth of Cavellini', in Le Roy Magazine 2: Life and Death, ed. Kelvin Soh (DDMMYY, 2015).
'I am still here: On Kawara', in Le Roy Magazine 2: Life and Death, ed. Kelvin Soh (DDMMYY, 2015).
'Splitting the Image: Michael Jackson and the next best thing(s)', in Le Roy Magazine 2: Life and Death, ed. Kelvin Soh (DDMMYY, 2015).
‘Billy Apple®: The artist has to live like everybody else’ (ed. Rosabel Tan, The Pantograph Punch, 2015). <https://www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/billy-apple-retrospective-the-artist-has-to-live-like-everybody-else>
‘A dream of a fantasy: Looking for Lori Watt’. (ed. Joe Nunweek, The Pantograph Punch., 2013). <https://pantograph-punch.com/posts/a-dream-of-a-fantasy-looking-for-lori-watt>