Painter and printmaker. Born in 1950 in Harrow, England, Fransella studied and taught at the Bradford School of Art in Yorkshire, England in the early 1970s before coming to Australia in 1975 and settling in Melbourne, where he continues to live. In 1994 he received his Masters of Fine Art from RMIT University, Melbourne.
In 1972 Fransella was awarded the Bradford School of Art Travelling Scholarship, which he used to travel to Europe. In 1985 he won the Maitland Art Prize and in 1992 he was awarded the Mitchelton Print Prize and an Australia Council Grant. Fransella has won the Wynne Watercolour Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on three occasions, in 2000, 2006 and 2007. Fransella is regularly selected to exhibit in the Dobell Prize for Drawing, The Wynne Prize and The Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Fransella is represented in public and private collections, including Artbank, Art Trust, Arthur Anderson & Co, Australian Art Investment Trust, National Gallery of Australia, Australian Print Workshop, Ballarat City Art Gallery, Deakin University, Geelong Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Parliament House, Print Council of Australia, Queensland State Gallery, Queensland University of Technology, SAATCHI & SAATCHI, London, University of Southern Queensland, Warnambool City Council and Wollongong City Gallery.
- Writers:
- Downer, Stella
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- Date written:
- 2007
- Last updated:
- 2011
