ANNIE FRANKLIN | CURRAWONG CALL
30 NOVEMBER - 22 DECEMBER 2019
The Nancy Sever Gallery is pleased to present Currawong Call, an exhibition of recent work by Annie Franklin. Heart Stitched, her book of images of the paintings in the exhibition with poems by Canberra based writer Anita Patel, will be launched at the opening of the exhibition.
Annie Franklin has been an art mentor and coordinator for several public art projects on the South Coast, Printmaker-in-Residence at Megalo Access Arts in Canberra, a printmaking tutor at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education in the Northern Territory, and Arts Coordinator for the Munupi Association on the Tiwi Islands. Her work is to be found in the National Gallery, the Canberra Museum and Gallery and other institutional and private collections.. Annie currently lives and works at Lake Wapengo NSW.
Annie Franklin | Currawong Call opens at the Nancy Sever Gallery on Saturday 30 November and runs until 22 December 2019. For further information on the exhibition please contact Nancy Sever at nancy.sever@iinet.net.au or Tel 02 6182 0055. The Gallery is open Wednesdays to Sundays 11am – 5pm.
ARTIST STATEMENT
CURRAWONG CALL
The distinctive and melodious call of this woodlands songbird is the soundtrack to my childhood years lived in Canberra.
For almost 20 years I have been making the trip from the south coast through the Monaro grasslands to Canberra on a regular basis. As I approach the Tinderry mountains and the woodlands to the south of Canberra, I notice a visceral response to the landscape I am moving through. It is a response that is charged with nostalgia. Although my wanderings through the surrounding bushland were limited as a child, still it existed as a backdrop to my life and it’s presence stirs a sense of belonging.
After decades of living in and responding to quite different landscapes, I have in recent years been compelled to relearn this tableland environment, to find my way into these woodlands, grasslands and wetlands, these grassy ecosystems.
The paintings in this exhibition are about the variety, the importance, the fragility, the light, the sound, the colour, the birds and the bees, the seasonal moods, the diversity and the relevance of this threatened landscape
Annie Franklin
November 2019
Artworks included in the exhibition:
(for details of the works, please click and hold cursor over the image)
Views of the exhibition
Annie Franklin and Anita Patel, heart stitched. 2019. Paradigm Print Media, Brisbane. Australia. 112 pp. $45 © Annie Franklin © Anita Patel
The images in the heart stitched book are reproductions of paintings by Annie Franklin. The poems are especially written in response to the paintings by Canberra poet Anita Patel. The book can be bought at the Nancy Sever Gallery, National Library of Australia Bookshop, National Portrait Gallery Bookshop, Aroboretum Bookshop.
Annie Franklin biographical details
born 3 June 1962. Currently living and working at Wapengo NSW
1982-1986 Diploma of Fine Art (Printmaking), Charles Sturt University, Wagga NSW
solo exhibitions
2018 being here, Narek Gallery, Bermagui NSW
2017 feast and forest Under the Greenwood Tree, Mt Tamborine, QLD
2016 Illumination, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
2016 twenty nine moments, Rathdowne Galleries, Melbourne
2015 small kingdoms, Narek Galleries, Tanja NSW
2013 the first day of summer, the Electric Wall, Canberra
2013 short stories, Narek Galleries, Tanja NSW
2011 north country, south country, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2009 102 reasons, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2005 common ground, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2001 feast, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2001 scenes from the palace gardens, Framed Gallery, Darwin
1998 a tiger in the garden, Contemporary Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane
1997 continuum, aGOG, Canberra
1994 one western woman, aGOG, Canberra
1990 a sense of place, aGOG, Canberra
1990 stories, Punch Gallery, Sydney
1989 prints and paintings, Shades of Ochre, Darwin
1988 ancient hues and alien forms, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
selected group exhibitions
2019 Gallery Bodalla, NSW
2015 the summer exhibition, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra
2014 living like gods, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 tuned, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, NSW
2010 Gulaga, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, NSW
2009 companis, Marks and Gardner Gallery, Mt Tamborine, QLD
2008 sunprints, Spiral Gallery Bega & Megalo Print Gallery Canberra
2007 atmosphere of hope, Legislative Assembly Canberra, Parliament House Sydney,
Spiral Gallery, Bega
2006 the sound of the sky, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin
2006 flock, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2004 Contemporary Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin
2003 in the presence of passion, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2003 spoiled earth, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2003 Reclaiming the mainstream: contemporary humanist ideals, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Waterworks, Helen Maxwell gallery, Canberra
2000/1 Art towards reconciliation, Museoa Guernica, Basque Country, travelling in Spain, France
and Germany
2000 triptych, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2000 painted proof, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1999 Propositions Australiennes, Gallery Luc Queyrel, Paris France
1995 bias binding, Women’s Art Register 1975-1995, National Gallery of Victoria
1995 changing places, cross cultural art from Australia touring exhibition in Malaysia, Singapore
and Hong Kong
1994 Australian Naive Art, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1991 A Spirit of Place, Shanghai, China
professional practice
2016-2019 artist mentor, Luc Sedatis, Bega, NSW
2013-2016 artist mentor ‘My Story, My Place’, Workability, Bega, NSW
2012 artist mentor, Tulgeen 3D mural project, Bega, NSW
2002-2008 director, Spiral Gallery Collective, Bega, NSW
2008 co-ordinator, south coast solar print project, Bega, NSW
2005 co-ordinator, ‘Living in Harmony’ mural project, Bega, NSW
2004 printmaker in residence, Megalo Access Arts, Canberra
2003/4 co-ordinator, ‘painted panels public art project’, Bega, NSW
2000 NT artists in schools program, Batchelor and Milikapiti schools, NT
1997-2002 printmaking tutor, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education, NT
1990-1993 art co-ordinator, Munupi Association, Melville Island, NT
grants and awards
2007 Marketing grant for NSW artists, National Association for the Visual Arts
1994 Professional Development grant, Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council
1988 Project grant, Arts Development Board ACT
collections
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Museum and Art Galleries of the NT
Australian National University
ACT Legislative Assembly
Archive of Humanist Art, VIC
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW
Canberra Hospital collection
Rupert Murdoch collection
Numerous private collections in Australia, France, U.S.A, U.K.
publications
2013 Chris Wallace, Megalomania: 33 years of posters made at Megalo print studio
2006 Daena Murray, The Sound of the Sky, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT publication
2003 William Kelly, Art and humanist ideals: contemporary perspectives
1999 Dr Joan Kerr, Artists and cartoonists in black and white
1996 Dr Sasha Grishin, Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s
1994 Sandra Warner, Australian Naive Art
1992 Vision sur les Arts, #181, Paris
1992 Imprint vol. 27, #3
1991 Max Germaine, A Dictionary of Australian Women Artists
1990 Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia
1988 Print Council of Australia, Directory 1988: Australian Artists Producing Prints
selected public commissions
2008 Sunshine Coast Shire Council, Maroochy River Recovery, poster
2004 Micah Network, U.K., Millenium Development Goals, card series
1998-2001 Land and Water Australia, large mural for ACT office and series of posters
1998 NT Office of Women Policy, Women’s Fellowship poster
1997 Smith Street Mall, Darwin cyclone season, ceramic mural
1997 Kakadu National Park Visitors Centre, Caring for Country mural
1996 Darwin Botanic Gardens, mural and ceramic mosaics
1994 Human Rights Commission, commemorative banner
ANNIE FRANKLIN | ILLUMINATION
26 NOVEMBER - 18 DECEMBER 2016
The Nancy Sever Gallery is pleased to present Illumination, an exhibition of paintings by Annie Franklin.
Annie Franklin has a Diploma in Art (Printmaking) from Charles Sturt University. She has been an art mentor and coordinator for several public art projects on the South Coast, Printmaker-in-Residence at Megalo Access Arts in Canberra, a printmaking tutor at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education in the Northern Territory, and Arts Coordinator for the Munupi Association on the Tiwi Islands. Her work may be found in the National Gallery and the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Annie Franklin currently lives and works at Lake Wapengo NSW.
Explorations of the environment that surrounds and sustains her is a continued theme in the artist’s work at the moment. Her images are drawn from the forest and waterways of the bush property where she lives, as well as from the important and endangered habitats of grassy woodlands and wetlands of the south coast, the Monaro and the Canberra region.
The paintings in this exhibition illuminate the unnoticed world underfoot: its intricacies, its significance and its connectivity with the more visible world above. “At the same time,” the artist says, “they celebrate the pleasure I derive from a life that allows me to engage with my environment and its daily and seasonal changes, to observe the nuances of light and colour and to marvel at the minutiae”.
Illumination opens at the Nancy Sever Gallery on Saturday 26 November and runs until 18 December 2016. For further information please contact Nancy Sever at nancy.sever@iinet.com.au or Tel 02 6239 5434. The Gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm.
Artist's statement
ILLUMINATION
…a light on the beauty of the small kingdoms - the world that is underfoot and under-appreciated; the insects, small birds, leaf litter and mulch, the fungi and lichen, the cycle of decay and new growth, the industry with literally the weight of the world on its shoulders, without which all life would cease to exist.
This is a continued theme in my work at the moment, in my explorations of the environment that surrounds and sustains me. Images are drawn from the forest and waterways of the bush property where I live as well as the important and endangered habitats of grassy woodlands and wetlands of the south coast, Monaro and Canberra regions.
These paintings shine some light on the unnoticed world underfoot; its intricacies, its significance and its connectivity with the more visible world above.
At the same time they celebrate the pleasure I derive from a life that allows me to engage with my environment and its daily and seasonal changes, to observe the nuances of light and colour and to marvel at the minutiae.
Artworks included in the exhibition:
(for details of the works, please click and hold cursor over the image)
Views of the exhibition
