Seva Frangos has thirty years of experience in public art galleries and museums and has established a comprehensive professional network throughout Australia and overseas.
As Director of Exhibitions and Development at the Art Gallery of Western Australia for ten years, Seva Frangos sourced and presented all local, national and international exhibitions and their associated educational and promotional programs. Senior management and program responsibilities included: collection policy; curatorial; exhibitions; education; development, marketing and sponsorship; registration; conservation; publications.
Touring exhibitions here and abroad, Seva Frangos was the Exhibition Director for the 1990 Venice Biennale, representing two Aboriginal artists, Rover Thomas and Trevor Nicholls on behalf of the Australian Government at the launch of their permanent Australian Pavilion.
Experience and appointments include Senior Project Officer, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council and Member (three year term) of Visions of Australia Committee, recommending assistance for national touring exhibitions to the Federal Minister. Australia Council responsibilities included establishing and implementing a national and state based infrastructure for touring exhibitions.
In 2005 Seva Frangos established a three program for Xstrata Coal, the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award hosted by the Queensland Art Gallery, the inaugural award and exhibition representing the work of ten invited artists from across Australia was held at the Queensland Art Gallery in April 2006.
The Seva Frangos Art consultancy was established in 1998 to provide independent advice and services to individual and corporate clients and public organizations and collections on the purchase, collection and exhibition of indigenous and contemporary art. Significant and regular yet temporary exhibitions were organized in Perth and Melbourne.
Public Collection clients include: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Edith Cowan University, Perth; Artbank Australia, Sydney; Parliament House Collection, Canberra; Murdoch University, Perth.
Approved valuer for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program - Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art
Qualifications:
BA (Anthropology, Macquarie University; Fine Arts, Sydney University)
Post-Graduate Diploma, Museum Studies (Sydney University)
The Gallery: opened November 2006
Representing contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island artists and their art centres, Seva Frangos Art works in partnership with a number of leading art centres and peak representative organizations to present artworks from leading artists and artworks sourced from across Australia.
Seva Frangos Art specializes in production of artworks in natural ochre and pigments and in particular artworks from the East Kimberley art, Western Australia and from across the ‘top end’ including Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands and north Queensland.
The gallery also represents two highly acclaimed Australian artists: the painter, Rod Moss (Alice Springs); the sculpture and installation artist, Antony Hamilton (South Australia)
The new permanent gallery in Subiaco will now offer a regular program of exhibitions and collection highlight displays and provide an opportunity to hold discussions with various groups on the artworks.