28 March – 2 May 2026
Hallway Gallery
DRAWN explores connections between drawing, mothering, geological and hydrogeological processes, focusing on domestic water use in our daily rituals and its impact on local waterways and groundwater. Beneath this inquiry runs an undercurrent of personal narrative.
Opening Saturday 28 March 2–4pm
Please join Fran to celebrate the launch of Drawn. We welcome guest speaker Dr Zoe Freney – artist, educator, BVA & BVA (Honours) Coordinator at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Official business will start at 2.30pm with limited bar and light hospitality.
about Fran
After graduating from a Bachelor of Visual Arts at University of South Australia 1997 and Graduate Bachelor of Education in 1999, Fran taught in remote communities in the Pilbara and Kimberleys, WA. She won the 2003 Ruth Tuck Scholarship to study at Santa Repararta School of Art, Florence, Italy, and returned to complete Honours in Visual Arts at University of South Australia in 2005.
Exhibiting prolifically for over twenty five years, Fran was recently curated into Neoterica 2024 as part of Adelaide Festival, and Mother at Drawspace, Sydney 2025. Her extensive body of work Drawing Groundwater was exhibited at Hahndorf Academy for SALA 2025, thanks to support by CreateSA. This responded to research by hydrogeologist Dr Margaret Shanafeild on the effect of climate change on groundwater recharge. Her work Aquifer was shortlisted for the SALA Science in Art Award 2025.
Fran is regularly shortlisted in National Art Prizes across Australia, including the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, and STILL National Still Life Award. Her work won the 2016 Fleurieu Food and Wine Art Prize, and has been highly commended in the Heysen Prize and Waterhouse Science and Art Prize 2022.
Residencies include Helpmann Academy’s Cultural Exchange to Sanskriti Kendra 2007, New Delhi, The Collections Project with FUMA 2016, Country ArtsSA Grindell’s Hut residency in 2018 and Sauerbier House in 2026. Fran also works as a community artist and has taught drawing and painting across South Australia’s art schools since 2007, including Tauondi Aboriginal College, University of South Australia, Central School of Art and Adelaide College of the Arts.
Image: Drawn (WIP), 2025, rain, ash, dirt, spices, sap, wine, tea, charcoal, graphite, colour pencil, pink pigment, glitter on recycled cast plaster, paper, canvas, 30 x 30cm. Image Rosina Possingham.
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