Colleen Frances - Ochredfern

This small gallery on Botany Road in Waterloo is a place I have meant to visit for a while. People talk about it. I had some free time the other day so went to have a look.

The current show is mainly small colour-field works by an artist whose name I hadn't known. THey sort of reminded me of a mix of Frank Franzetta and Mark Rothko. They have a sort of 80s-shar-house feel about them but this kind of free hue work is quite regularly seen in 2025. 

Not that Frances' work is derivative. That's not what I mean. Rather that these works do have a contemporary feel about them. I already understood from the talk on the street that Ochredfern is a relatively Poppy place, I mean it has a sort of Pop sensibility. So Frances seems to be right at home here.