Frances Thomson is a visual arts curator and writer. She completed her PhD on ’Tate Adams and the Australian Printmaking Revival of the 1960s’ in 2018. Previously, Frances directed the Artists Regional Exchange, a precursor of the Asia Pacific Triennial. She has been Director of the Kalgoorlie Museum in Western Australia and Townsville’s Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Queensland where her legacy is ’Strand Ephemera’ and the ‘Percivals’. Her most enduring creative collaborations have included those with artist and artists book publisher, Tate Adams, and artist, muse and daughter, Jac Dyson. Frances lives in Townsville between her homes on the mainland and Magnetic Island.