ANNIE FRANKLIN | PAINTINGS

ANNIE FRANKLIN AND ANITA PATEL ‘FAMILIAR FRAGMENTS’ BOOK LAUNCH

Saturday 29 November 2025 2pm - 5pm - Gorman Arts Centre Main Hall - 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon ACT 2612

Nancy Sever Gallery is pleased to invite you to the launch of the book Familiar Fragments: paintings by Annie Franklin and poems by Anita Pateland an exhibition of paintings by Annie Franklin featured in the book.

This beautiful hardcover book is their third collaboration. Anita Patel writes in the foreword: ‘Familiar Fragments is an offering of everyday objects, moments and experiences which make up ordinary lives—from custard jugs, recipes and picnics to the sadness of watching aged parents decline and die. We have talked about rivers, gardens, teacups, kitchens, childhoods, friendship and everything in between’.

‘In our earlier books, Heart Stitched and Grief and Beauty, my poems are responses to Annie’s paintings. In this book, Annie has produced images in response to my words. Paintings and poems weave together to offer a jumble of fragments from the common round of our lives. Every fragment is familiar to each of us. We hope that as you turn the pages of this book, you find fragments that are familiar to you’.

 Familiar Fragments will be launched at the Gorman Arts Centre, Main Hall,  55 Ainslie Ave, Braddon ACT 2612                                                       Saturday 29 November 2025 from 2pm- 5pm.

 Annie Franklin and Anita Patel will be signing books. Paintings by Annie Franklin featured in the book will be for sale on the day.  

 For further information please contact:  annie.franklin@bigpond.com; anitajpatel36@gmail.com; or nancy.sever@iinet.net.au.

COLLECTABLE ART

ANNIE FRANKLIN | ARTHUR BOYD | CAMERON HAAS | JI CHEN | TIM JOHNSON

Online exhibition, live from 3 June 2025

DAN MAGINNITY [BYRD] | NOW HERE

Online exhibition, live now.

WENDY KELLY | THE COMPLEXITY OF THE ORDINARY

Nancy Sever Gallery is delighted to launch a virtual gallery with our first online exhibition featuring leading Melbourne-based artist Wendy Kelly.

The complexity of the ordinary is an exhibition of paintings showcasing the development of Wendy’s singular visual language centred in a form of geometric abstraction into more complex forms.

Artists statement

Although known since the 1990s for developing a singular visual language centred in a form of geometric based reductive abstraction, my long abiding interest in these elements has developed into more complex forms. Geometry and pattern, with their sense of specific concrete order, repetition, drawing and non narrative approach, begged for further re-interpretation.

The current work draws on a long held collection of fabrics that revelled in the everyday. Geometry and pattern dominate, and when disturbed, they had the effect of fracturing the rhythms and rigidity of the abstraction.  They developed an inherent tension, new readings and meanings. Light became a subject, unlike the way it had been used in the past, where it was a tool, and they seek complexity in the ordinary.

Wendy Kelly
29th June 2024

AVAILABLE WORKS FROM PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS