Slivers of Time: an exhibition of drawings
Slivers of Time
an exhibition of drawings
Suzanne .k. Franklin
20 – 31 October 2026
hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm
Saturdays: 12pm – 4pm
admission: Free
… push[ing] the boundaries between drawing and painting while concurrently capturing the passing of time…
Perth based artist Suzanne .k. Franklin (sue.k.) returns to Melbourne with a new body of work. Further exploring her materialist positioning as an artist, the development of the work for Slivers of Time adhered to strict rules of format and composition with the motif of a single sphere and an horizon line becoming simply devices for navigating space. Freed is the exploration and discovery of the material of the medium of Inktense Pencil.
By approaching the production of the work in a diaristic structure, with an addition of writing down thoughts and feelings relevant to the day when a drawing was completed, each work provides a slice of time framed and hung one-by-one in a row that mimics that of a filmstrip. Moments caught in time.
Full of colour and texture, the work pushes the boundaries between drawing and painting while concurrently capturing the passing of time.
Please note: the artist will be in attendance at the opening on Tuesday 20th Oct. and on Saturday 24th and 31st Oct. 12pm – 4pm.
Suzanne .k. Franklin originally trained as an artist at Claremont School of Art, 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.