Artists:

Annie Franklin

Description: The works in this exhibition create something of a backyard narrative. This is a backyard with indistinct boundaries: not a definition of property but a direct response to a specific landscape, and a way of living in that landscape. The paintings relate to my feelings and observations of this place. Food, a recurring theme in my work, features in a number of the works, in particular the series “four seasons (a homage to Fukuoka)”. These paintings are about understanding local and seasonal food and the relevance of the backyard food garden. The still life series describe the nuances of domestic life in the bush, against the backdrop of this coastal landscape. 102 reasons is a suite of 102 small paintings dedicated to the memory of my maternal grandmother whose simple life spanned 102 years across a complex century. They are about food, family and land. They are reasons to care about the way that we live and who we live with, reasons to respect the land that sustains us, reasons to take time for beauty. Annie Franklin has been living at Lake Wapengo, far south coast of NSW for 8 years, where she shares a 100 acres of beautiful bushland with a small group of friends. Prior to settling on the south coast, Annie worked for 12 years in the Northern Territory – as Arts co-ordinator at Munupi Arts and Crafts, Melville Island and in her studio near Bachelor. She worked on many arts projects in the NT and has completed a number of commissions for institutions including National Parks and Wildlife, and Land and Water, Australia. Annie Franklin has been exhibiting regularly in commercial and public galleries in Australia and internationally for 23 years.

Dates:
05 July 2009 to 09 August 2009