Born in Zimbabwe Francios Du Plessis grew up in South Africa.
Escaping the apartheid politics he travelled around Europe and settled in Germany, where he now works and lives in Aachen.

Robert Mertens calls François du Plessis an intuitive artist. ”In fact, these book objects are not created merely by sawing and cutting and then reassembling something. Random assembling would not create these fascinating works, which with their dynamic, merging and twisting colour play should remind us of paintings by Delaunay, Miró or perhaps Mack.”