Graham Fransella
Graham Fransella
Hands, 1980
Graham Fransella (born 1950)
etching, printed in black ink, hand-coloured, 12/25
7.6 x 9.6 cm (frame: 30 x 25 cm)
signed, dated, titled and editioned below image
Other notes: another impression of this print is in the National Gallery of Australia collection: Accession no NGA 89.552.
$250 (framed)
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Graham Fransella was born in England and trained at the Bradford School of Art in Yorkshire from 1970 to 1973. He was awarded the Bradford School of Art traveling scholarship in 1972 and arrived in Australia in 1975. He has held numerous exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and internationally in Cologne, Germany and London. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne. A survey exhibition of his work was held at the Stonington Stables Museum of Art at Deakin University in 2003. He was awarded the Maitland Print Prize in 1985, the Mitchelton Print Prize in 1992 and has won the Trustees’ Watercolour Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Whales on five occasions.
Graham’s work is represented by the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery; and Parliament House, Canberra. A monograph of the artist’s work titled ‘Figures and Landscapes’ was published in 2002 by Macmillan Art Publishing.