Suzanne K Franklin

Suzanne .k. Franklin originally trained as an artist at Claremont School of Art, in Perth Western Australia, graduating in 1992 with a Major in Sculpture and a Minor in Painting, though her forté has always been drawing. Since then, she has maintained an ongoing practice focussed on sculpture, drawing, and experimental video work, as well as performance pieces. Much of this work has been conducted under the name of sue.k with a return to using her full birth name, Suzanne Franklin, taking place in 2012. For more than three decades her work has been shown across Australia, UK, US, Europe, and Asia.

Master of Fine Art by Research (University of Western Australia)
Bachelor of Arts (University of Western Australia)
Diploma of Art & Design (Claremont School of Art, Western Australia)
Certificate of Art and Design (Rockingham T.A.F.E. Western Australia)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 - Drawing Space, (Drawing) Mundaring Arts Centre, West Aus
2012 - The place where I work, eat and sleep, (Drawing) Apte, Melbourne
2009 - Beneath the Banks of the Thames River, (Digital photographic images), The Hanging Space, Melbourne
2009 - 2009_on Plenty Road, (Drawing), The Hanging Space, Melbourne
2008 - London, (Drawing), The Hanging Space, Melbourne
2003 - figuring time frames: a programme of experimental screen work by sue.k. (Experimental Video), The Black Box at The Bakery, Perth, West Aus
1998 - “fifty ways to find your lover”, (Painting), Perth Galleries, West Aus
1995 - “A wet fish and The romance”, (Drawing, Sculpture), Perth Galleries , West Aus

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023-2024:
The Language of Colour, Mundaring Arts Centre, West Aus.
2023:
Omnia Art Prize shortlisted, Melbourne
2019:
Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award shortlisted, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2012:
Conservatory of Singular Specimens, Bolin Gallery, Melbourne
2011-2012:
Artists’ Salon, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne
1997:
Gomboc Sculptural Survey, Gomboc Gallery, West Aus
1996
Gomboc Sculptural Survey, Gomboc Gallery, West Aus
1995:
Stilled Vessels, Perth Galleries, West Aus; Gomboc Sculptural Survey, Gom...