Tina has successfully exhibited at Railway Street Gallery for several years and continues to do so as a member of the gallery’s collective.
Her works are in several private art collections including that of the Arts House Trust. 250 Gallery represents the opportunity to show a retrospective of all of her works.
Her works are varied and include paintings, photography, abstract works and books of her paintings and photography.
The exhibition this month, titled 'The Ley Lines of Home Revisited', show Tina’s photographs catching fleeting moments of light and place. She records these varying ephemeral moments on her phone camera and in the poems that form in her mind as she walks the beaches and the maunga – the ley lines of her home in Devonport.
Tina Frantzen’s photographs show a whole new side to her talent. Light and shade have always been a feature in her work, and in her black and white photographs these aspects play a crucial role. Light reflects off water, sun shines through trees, figures are silhouetted, resulting in dynamic and arresting compositions.
Frantzen uses a phone camera, enabling her to catch fleeting moments that strike her on her regular walks. A dog leaps, a tot toddles along a hilltop, someone stands in exactly the right spot to balance a composition.
This is a show that no art lover should miss – Warwick Brown, November 2020.
In wanting to make her gallery a community friendly space, Tina has offered it as a venue for Auckland Playback Theatre group which performs monthly on a Friday night at 7pm. Check the notice in the window or the facebook page (Auckland Playback Theatre), gold coin koha.
Tina has also been conducting fun art sessions on the second Wednesday of every month.
For more details about these, please contact Tina: tinafrantzen@gmail.com
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Published: 31 July 2023