Contemporary Indigenous art with a focus on the west and northern areas of Australia together with a boutique collection of contemporary Chinese art.
Prior to 2007, Seva Frangos Art organised a number of exhibitions in Perth and Melbourne, introducing many senior and now significant artists to a wider Australian audience and assisting their acquisition in public collections.
These included 2 special project exhibitions for the Australian artists, Rod Moss and Anthony Hamilton.
Seva Frangos Art gallery opened in Subiaco in 2006 and hosted over 100 exhibitions of Indigenous art, and over its last three years also highlighted the work of contemporary Chinese artists.
During its decade of operation, the gallery received considerable support for its artists from the public, corporate and private sector, and worked closely with a wide range of clients, including national and State art galleries and organisations, to assist in their acquisition of these significant artists. It was instrumental in promoting Indigenous art from the far north of Australia both in its locale as well as across Australia and abroad.
Working closely with Indigenous art at this level is a rare opportunity afforded only to a few. It was indeed a pleasure to work with artists, art centres –especially Warlayirti Artists Balgo; Jilamara Arts & Crafts Melville Island, Tiwi Islands; Mangkaja Arts,Fitzroy Crossing; Maningrida Arts & Crafts, Maningrida; Martumili Artists, East Pilbara; Tiwi Design, Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands; Waringarri Arts,Kununurra; Warmun Art, Turkey Creek; Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala- and the many individuals and organisations that provided support, guidance and opportunities.
It is without hesitation that each one of them is gratefully and generously acknowledged for their contribution to the gallery’s success. It is a particularly rich and at times astounding environment to work in and there is no doubt that these partnerships have been very rewarding at every level.
Although the gallery closed in December 2015, Seva Frangos maintains a close relationship with many of these art centres and a select group of artists and can discern and source a range of the highest quality artworks for any client.
Seva Frangos also maintains an active stockroom with artworks collected over a 30-year period.
As one of the most celebrated and significant artists from the Tiwi Islands, Timothy Cook's place in contemporary Australian art history is firmly established.
He is a maverick artist –non-conformist, individualistic, original and inventive, straddling the modern and ancient with confidence. In this stunning book authored and edited for UWA Publishing, University of Western Australia, Perth by Seva Frangos, she and her fellow four writers attest to his achievements, inhabiting a place and space where innovation might seem impossible against the background of tradition and ritual; where he realigns artistic and cultural boundaries and re-explores being Tiwi. These pages capture the remarkable levels of energy and emotional charge in his painting and provide a brilliant introduction to his vast body of work over two decades in a range of media.
Timothy Cook worked closely with Seva Frangos exhibiting with the gallery for close to a decade and also on various special projects. Importantly they worked together with Jilmara Arts & Crafts on Melville where Cook works and lives, on his inclusion in numerous high profile public exhibitions and awards.
Timothy Cook was born on 18 September 1958 on the Tiwi Islands and his country is Goose Creek, Skin Group is Marntupuni (House Fly) and his Dance is Tarduwuli (Shark).
He has worked throughout his entire career at Jilmara Arts & Crafts at Milikapiti and participated in in numerous group exhibitions at commercial and public Australian and European galleries since 1997.
AUGUST 2007
Earth on Paper in association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island
MARCH - APRIL 2008
Timothy Cook in association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island
APRIL 2009
Earth on Paper 2 in association Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island
MARCH 2011
Timothy Cook Solo in association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2012
Earth on Paper in association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island
MARCH - APRIL 2013
Timothy Cook - Solo Exhibition in association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island
JANUARY 2014
Summer Show
SEPTEMBER 2014
Stockroom Highlights
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2015
Timothy Cook : Dancing with the Moon in association with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Melville Island
Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Artbank Australia, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National University Collection, Canberra
Charles Darwin University Art Collection and Art Gallery, Darwin
City of Wanneroo, Perth;
City of Stirling, Perth
Commonwealth Bank Collection, Sydney
Edith Cowan University Art Collection, Perth
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth
Laverty Collection, Sydney
Lepley Collection, Perth
Moree Plains Gallery, Moree
Murdoch University Art Collection, Perth
musée du quai Branly, Paris
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Northern Editions Printmaking Studio, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Pat Corrigan Collection, Gold Coast and Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Royal Perth Hospital Collection, Perth
St John of God Hospital Health Care Art Collection, Perth
Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Perth
One of the most celebrated and sought after Australian artists of her generation, Lena Nydabi deceptively minimal paintings straddle the pure organic painted earth with sophisticated mark making at its very best.
As one of the most radical and contemporary artists from the Kimberley she has achieved almost cult status. Largely using a palate of black and white with degrees of greys she occasionally punctuates these with rich Kimberley ochre red and its shades of pinks. The fluidity and elegance of her work is sublime.
Lena Nyadbi born c. 1936, near Warnmarnjulugun lagoon, Western Australia is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from the Warmun Community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her two major dreamtime stories focus on the baramundi and spearhead country - Dayiwul Lirlmim, and details of her barramundi dreaming moving along the river are painted on the roof of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. This painting installation can only be seen from the air, including the Eiffel Tower and Google Earth.
OCTOBER 2009
First and Second Generation Artists in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
JANUARY 2011
Impressions and Editions: Rare & Limited Edition Prints by Significant Artists
DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition: The Leading Artists from the Warmun Art Centre in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
MAY - JUNE 2014
Lena Nyadbi: A Small Collection: Celebrate Western Australia in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek; This exhibition was held to honour Nyadbi's Western Australian of the Year Award.
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2014
Natural Talent: Churchill Cann + Lena Nyadbi in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
Born circa 1931, Barlinyin, East Kimberley Western Australia, Mabel Juli lives and works at the Warmun Community, East Kimberley, Western Australia. A senior and highly acknowledged artist Juli is best known for her signature "moon and star" paintings executed in natural ochres and pigments. The textural qualities of the ochres offer an addtional complexity to these deceptively simple paintings. Having shown with Seva Frangos Art in the very first exhibitions held in Melbourne and then Perth, Juli clearly assisted in establishing the benchmark for the quality and depth of the gallery's program.
Juli’s work is well represented in Australian public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Artbank, Sydney; and in her home State in the Berndt Museum, University of Western Australia; King Edward Memorial Hospital Collection; Parliament House Collection of Western Australia. Her works are also represented in the Perth-based Wesfarmers and Kerry Stokes collections, and in the Chartwell Collection at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand.
JANUARY 2003
Five by Seven in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2003
120 x 120 : 6 Artists - 18 New Works from Warmun in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
DECEMBER 2007 - JANUARY 2008
Dog Dreamings of Warmun in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
OCTOBER 2009
First and Second Generation Artists in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
OCTOBER 2010
Mabel Juli Karnkiny + Marlene Juli Gurlabal in assocition with warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
DECEMBER 2011
30 x 30 : Small Presents - Big Presence in association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2013
Summer Show
MARCH 2013
Stockroom Highlights
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2013
sublime paintings : Mabel Juli In association with Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek
JANUARY 2014
Summer Show
Huang Xu is a photographic artist living in Beijing. He is a graduate of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts and began his career as a commercial photographer. As an artist, he has also created oil painting and produced sculptural installations.
Notions of waste and impermanence run through the work of Huang Xu. He creates a commentary though his work, which alludes to his relationship with everyday objects, the banal nature of aspects of contemporary Chinese life and the unwanted detritus that is all pervasive. He takes something, which is ordinary and mundane and is able to create an unexpectedly beautiful image. The plastic bag works are the best example of this.
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2013
China Meditation in association China Art Projects + Tony Scott, Hong Kong
APRIL - MAY 2014
Contemporary Nature : Huang Xu and introducing Tong Ng in asscoaition with China Art Projects + Tony Scott, Hong Kong
Born in Shandong Province in 1974, Gao Ping is one of the many millions of Chinese immigrants who have moved from small provincial towns to the international metropolis of Beijing, where she lives and works. Ping has exhibited extensively in China and internationally. As an artist she takes refuge from the intense and dense city environments of Chinese life today through these personal reflections of domestic and modern life. The images are charming, exquisite, often poignant and thoroughly engaging.
Her paintings of objects and her images that capture the small isolated moments in people's lives are produced using traditional Chinese ink painting techniques and brushes. They are painted on rice paper and then mounted on silk, and the palette is highly restrained reflecting her response to the world at large. The light touch of the brush conveys a sense of impermanence – in relationships, household appliances, consumer goods, architectural structures, plant life. But this is no random mark-making, the placement of her subjects has been carefully considered against the empty background. There is no horizontal plane and hence no ‘anchor’. This devise could be interpreted as a metaphor for city living in the high density mass of Beijing.
Ping has since explored large scale paintings and these are in stark contrast to her small intimate paintings and drawings. They are abstracted and dense and equally compelling, confident and successful.
6 OCTOBER - 2 NOVEMBER
Gao Ping Solo in association with China Art Projects + Tony Scott, Hong Kong
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2013
China Meditation in association China Art Projects + Tony Scott, Hong Kong
Born 1978, Fujian, China; Lives and works Xiamen and Beijing, China.
Zhou Hongbin’s focus is about new worlds, whether they are a retreat from daily life or contradicting our expectations about what are safe and comfortable environments. These meticulously constructed photographs echo traditional Chinese art yet their intellectual and visual content reinvents both tradition and utopia.
The personal, environmental and intellectual converge in these extraordinary and compelling photographic works are superbly reproduced. They are beautifully arranged and imagined, and they are bold and paradoxically engaging, as we are both drawn to the smallest details whilst contemplating this 'natural' world and universal fables.She wants to create an ideal world, a ‘Garden of Eden’, where she can retreat, avoid reality and contemplate a safer quieter life – her utopia. But all is an illusion as the serpent.
FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015
Utopia Revisited: Zhou Hongbin in association China Art Projects + Tony Scott, Hong Kong
JUNE 2015
China Meditation in association China Art Projects + Tony Scott, Hong Kong
Below are 18 exhibitions selected from 100 hosted between 2000 and 2015. Together with the six Selected Artists they demonstrate the focus as well as the diversity of the SF Art Gallery across its 15 year program.
A complete list of all exhibitions can be downloaded here
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