Franki Austin - "Disappearing species: Swallowtail Butterfly" 2022
oil on linen
12 cm x 12 cm
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"Sacred Trees series - Pine Grove (study)" Franki Austin
Franki Austin is a London-based painter and mixed-media artist associated with Barbican Arts Group Trust and the artists’ community at Blackhorse Lane Studios in Walthamstow, East London. She joined the BAGT's Hertford Roas Studios in 2005 and continues to work from Blackhorse Lane Studios.
Austin studied painting and glass at the Central School of Art and Design in London and later completed an MPhil in Fine Art at the University of Plymouth. Her postgraduate research focused on the international artists working at Dartington Hall in Devon during the 1930s, a subject that later led her to travel and work in India.
Her work often combines painting, storytelling and environmental themes. She has collaborated with poets on participatory exhibitions using folk tales shared across different cultures. Since around 2007, climate change and trees have become increasingly central themes in her practice, influenced partly by stories and knowledge passed on by her Scottish grandfather.