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| 1950 |
Born - Harrow, England
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| 1970 |
Travelled to Europe, visiting France, Italy, Greece and Spain
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| 1970-73 |
Attended Bradford Art School, Yorkshire under Ian Colverson
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| 1972 |
Travelled to Europe visiting Munich Olympic Games and Isle of Wight Rock Festival
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1972
| Represented in 2nd International Print Biennale, Bradford, U.K | | 1974 | First
visit to Australia travelling through Malaysia en route. Stayed
for 6 months in Melbourne. Returned to England to teach at
Bradford Art School | | 1975 | Returned to Australia | | 1976 | Assisted Bea Maddock to print etchings whilst she was Artist-in-Residence at ANU, Canberra | | 1977 | Appointed as Printmaking Technician at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | | 1979 | Visited England and France | | 1981 | Appointed lecturer at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne | | 1983 | Commenced first ‘Parrot’ Series of etchings Who Shot the Parrot | | 1983 | Visited Italy, France and U.K | | 1986 | Worked for 6 months at John Walker’s studio in London, also visited Italy and France | | 1986 | Exhibited at Los Angeles Arts Fair. Commenced printing with Michel Szczepanski | | 1989 | Travelled to London and France | | 1992 | Worked at Australian Print Workshop | | 1996 | Travelled to England and Paris | | 1997 | Travelled to Red Centre visiting Aboriginal communities and viewed indigenous paintings | | 1999 | Moved to studio in Brooklyn, Melbourne | 2000
| Resigned from lecturing position to concentrate on work full time | | 2000 | Travelled to the Northern Territory and Western Australian visiting Bungle Bungles, Lake Eyre and Coober Pedy | 2001
| Travelled along the Gibb River Road in the Kimberley visiting Aboriginal art sites | | 2002 | Travelled to Arnhem land to see Aboriginal rock art and dwelling sites | | 2004 | Travelled to London, Paris and Southern Spain | | 2006 | Travelled to New York and Central Australia |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2008 | 'Canvas Paper Bronze', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Paintings, prints and sculpture', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
| | 2007 | Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
| | Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney
| | 2005 | Beaver Galleries, Canberra
| | Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
| | Greenaway Galleries, Adelaide
| | Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
| | 2004 | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | 2003 | Beaver Galleries, Canberra
| | Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
| | Australian Art Resources, Sydney
| | 2002 | Axia Modern Art, Melbourne.
| | 2001 | Greenaway Galleries, Adelaide
| | 2000 | Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
| | Beaver Galleries, Canberra
| | 1999 | Greenaway Galleries, Adelaide
| | Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 1998 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | Beaver Galleries, Canberra
| | 1997 | Greenway Galleries, Adelaide
| | 1996 | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, U.K.
| | 1995 | Beaver Galleries, Canberra
| | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Greenway Galleries, Adelaide
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1993 | Greenway Galleries, Adelaide
| | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | Beaver Galleries, Canberra
| | 1992 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
| | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, U.K.
| | 1991 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1990 | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1989 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, U.K.
| | 1988 | Anima Gallery, Adelaide
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1987 | Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Cologne, West Germany
| | 1986 | Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
| | Alba Fine Art, Kew, London, U.K.
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (Feb 1986)
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (Dec 1986)
| | 1985 | Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Cologne, West Germany
| | 1984 | Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
| | Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1983 | Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1982 | Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1981 | Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1978 | Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
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Group Exhibitions | | | 2008 | ‘Salon des Refusés 2008’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust, Sydney
| | 2007 | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 2006 | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘The Artist, the Printmaker’, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
| | ‘Jacaranda Drawing Prize’, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
| | ‘Fletcher Jones Art Prize’, Geelong Gallery
| | ‘Redland’s Westpac Art Prize’, Sydney, NSW
| | 2005 | The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Hibrida II – Gallery Bruno’, Czech Republic and Bradford, UK.
| | ‘Artist’s Artists’, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 2004 | ‘Surface Tension, Twenty One Contemporary Australian Printmakers’, National Arts Club, NewYork, USA
| | ‘Place made: Australian Print Workshop’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
| | ‘By Male Order’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
| | ‘A Small Private Eye’, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
| | ‘Figure and Landscape’, Manningham City Gallery, Melbourne
| | 2003 | ‘The Blake Prize for Religious Art’, University of Sydney, NSW
| | The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘National Works on Paper’, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Sydney Art on Paper Fair’, Sydney, NSW
| | 2002 | Axia Modern Art, Sydney, NSW
| | 2001 | ‘Figure and Landscape, 3 artists’, Graham Fransella, Idris Murphy, Guy Warren
| | Axia Modern Art, Melbourne,
| | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Then and Now’ Artists from Bradford Art School Travelling Show, U.K.
| | ‘Melbourne Printmakers’, Queensland Art Gallery and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 2000 | The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Melbourne Art Fair’, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
| | ‘Works on Paper’ Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, U.K.
| | ‘London Art Fair’, Rebecca Hossak Gallery, London, U.K.
| | ‘People in a Landscape’ Contemporary Australian Prints, Phillipines.
| | ‘Contemporary Lino Cuts’ 1995-98, NETS Victoria touring exhibition
| | Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Focus on Australia’ Slovenian Biennale, Slovenia
| | ‘Sydney Art on Paper Fair’, Sydney, NSW
| | Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | AXIA Modern Art, Melbourne
| | ‘Australian Prints from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Works on Paper from the Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
| | 1999 | ‘Volvo Galleries Exhibition’, Sydney, NSW
| | 1998 | ‘Amsterdam Art Fair’, Amsterdam, Holland
| | 1997 | The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘London International Art Fair’, U.K.
| | ‘Sydney Art on Paper Fair, Sydney, NSW
| | ‘Geelong Print Prize’, Geelong, Victoria
| | 1996 | MacCarthur Print Award, Sydney
| | Melbourne Art Fair 1996, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
| | Mornington Print Exhibition, Mornington Penninsula Arts Centre, Victoria
| | ‘Gallery Artists’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Duraloid Silk Cut Award’, Melbourne
| | 1995 | ‘Macarthur Print Award’, Sydney
| | 1994 | ‘Mary MacKillop Portrait Prize’, Power House Museum, Sydney
| | Melbourne Art Fair 1994, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
| | ‘Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
| | ‘Mary MacKillop Portrait Prize’, Power House Museum, Sydney
| | ‘Fremantle Print Award’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
| | ‘Osaka Triennale’, Osaka, Japan
| | Kedumba Drawing Award, Blue Mountains Grammer School, NSW
| | The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Selected Prints’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Amsterdam Art Fair, Amsterdam, Holland
| | ‘Holland Maarstrict Print Biennale’, Holland
| | ‘Sydney Art on Paper Fair’, Sydney
| | 1993 | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1992 | ‘Artist as Printmaker’, Editions Gallery, Melbourne
| | Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
| | ‘The Mitchelton Print Exhibition’, Melbourne
| | Melbourne Art Fair 1992, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
| | ‘Amsterdam Art Fair’, Amsterdam, Holland
| | 1991 | ‘The Watercolour’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Official Opening’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
| | ‘Opening’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Nuremberg Arts Fair’, Nuremberg, Germany
| | ‘Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Prints from the Collection’, Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
| | ‘Sydney Art on Paper Fair’, Sydney
| | 1989 | ‘Fremantle Print Exhibition’, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
| | Aberdere Galleries Exhibition, Ipswich Regional Gallery, NSW
| | ‘Painters’ Vision’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Bath Contemporary Arts Fair’, Bath, United Kingdom
| | ‘Chicago International Arts Fair’, Chicago, USA
| | 1988 | ‘Australian Prints’ Australian National Gallery, Canberra
| | ‘Recent Australian Print Acquisitions’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | ‘Los Angeles International Arts Fair’, Los Angeles, USA
| | ‘Nuremberg International Art Fair’, Nuremberg, West Germany
| | 1987 | ‘Woodcuts’ Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Melbourne Art Fair 1987’, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
| | ‘Works from Australia’, Houston International Art Fair, Houston, USA.
| | ‘Painters Vision’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1986 | ‘Invitation Purchase Exhibition’, University of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1985 | ‘The Figure’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
| | Prints & Printmakers, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Los Angeles International Arts Fair, Los Angeles, USA
| | 1984 | ‘Printmakers Travelling Show’, throughout Victoria and NSW
| | 1983 | ‘The Beach’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Retrospective 85’ Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
| | 1981 | ‘The Nude’, Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
| | 1980 | ‘Gallery Artists’, Gerstman Abdullah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
| | 1978 | ‘Henry Worland Print Prize’, Warnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
| | ‘Review/Preview’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 1972 | ‘2nd British Print Biennale’, Bradford, U.K.
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BibliographyGraham Fransella – Figures and Landscape, 2002, Macmillan Publishing
Graham Fransella – eau forte, 2003, Pub. Deakin University
AwardsIncludes Grants
2007 Wynne Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 Wynne Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2000 Wynne Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1992 Australia Council Grant
1992 Mitchelton Print Prize
1985 Maitland Art Prize
1972 Bradford School of Art Travelling Scholarship
CollectionsArtbank
Art Trust
Arthur Anderson & Co., Melbourne
Australian Art Investment Trust
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Ballarat City Art Gallery, Victoria
Bristol-Myers Squibb Australia
Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne
Facioni Nominees
Footscray College of TAFE, Victoria
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
George Patterson Bates
GLAXO Australia
Jawcamb
Mainpoint
Maunsells Australia P/L
O.T.C Australia
Ove Arup & Partners
Pacific Brands
Parliament House, Canberra
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
Queensland State Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
SAATCHI & SAATCHI, London
Southcorp Holdings
Sparke Helmore
Steel Case Australia P/L
The Toronto Dominion Bank
University of Southern Queensland
VEI Superannuation
Victorian Workcover Authority
Warnambool City Art Gallery, Victoria
Waverley City Council, Melbourne
Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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