Graham Fransella

2007 Wynne Trustees Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia 2006 Wynne Trustees Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia Graham Fransella (born 3 June 1950) is an Australian figurative and abstract painter.

He studied at the Bradford School of Art, Yorkshire in the early 1970s, before moving to Melbourne, Australia, in 1975.

His basic iconography of heads and figures has remained constant throughout his work.

His work is represented in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Parliament House, Canberra, the Print Council of Australia and Saatchi and Saatchi, London.

[1] He was also the subject of an Archibald Prize 2006 finalists entry by Geoffrey Dyer entitled 'The Abstractionist Graham Fransella'.