PRESS RELEASE
EBERHARD FRANKE
“RETROSPECTIVE : A LIFE IN ART”
Opening Saturday 20th April @2pm
Exhibition continues till 5 May
SOUTH HILL GALLERY
3 GARROORIGANG RD
GOULBURN 2580
PH 0411131515
www.southhillgoulburn.com.au
This exhibition features work spanning many decades commencing before the
artist’s arrival in Australia in 1959, aged 25.
In post war Germany Eberhard served two apprenticeships, gaining skills in
metalwork and textiles. Later, as an artist, he toured Europe exhibiting in
Germany, France and Switzerland.
On arrival in Australia he lived and worked at The Rocks in Sydney creating and
teaching sculptural weaving, fibreglass and metal sculpture and metal furniture.
After moving to the Southern Highlands, he taught sculpture metalwork and
modelling in clay.
A philosophy runs through his work influenced by both European tradition, the
20th century Dada, Surrealists and Modernists, and also tribal Melanesian art.
Significant is the very strong German tradition, the depression and Nazi era of
his childhood and later the communist occupation of his then home in Poland.
One of his free form bronzes is displayed in the botanical gardens near Rocklaw
Cathedral in Poland.
Over a lifetime, he has been productive in many mediums, painting, flat weaving,
3 dimensional weaving, furniture, sculptures in wood, bronze, fibreglass and
clay. This exhibition also contains jewellery including stones chosen and cut and
polished himself, often set in silver.