Frankie L Abroon– 'Disinheritance' Exhibition Opening Celebration

Join us for the opening celebration of Disinheritance, a solo exhibition by Frankie L.Abroon at Eloise Cato Gallery, Sydney Thursday 19 November 6–8pm.

RSVP is essential, please book through Humanitix. For further information or to register your interest in the pricelist please get in touch directly at info@catogallery.com or by calling +61 403 902 498. If you are unable to attend the opening, the exhibition will be on show from the 18 November – 12 December 2026 during gallery hours of 10:30 - 5pm Tuesday - Friday and 10:30 - 3pm Saturday or by appointment.

Home is the impetus of Frankie L.Abroon’s practice. Where home is, what home means and how to sit in its absence to create home regardless of proximity. Beginning with the excavation of her childhood home, Disinheritance draws on materials and iconography that reflect the intersection of Iranian and Anglo-Australian aesthetics in projection of cultural memories that sit within her present. Tiles, pixels of knowledge, redact / colour block her compositions; multiple perspectives of simultaneous scenes unfold like separate compartments found in Persian miniatures. In piecing together L.Abroon fragments, in fragmenting she pieces together- her cultural mapping is cyclic, it’s searching not fixed. L.Abroon positions us to sit in hybrid spaces of nostalgia, her compositions are saturated built artefacts of collective suburbia. Water gathers the city, L.Abroon’s allusions to the Aussie backyard pool set against the centrality of water within the Iranian domestic atrium, becomes a point of cultural slippage embedded in seemingly familiar architectures of gathering. Here home meets heritage, in a borderless state expressed as a collegial identity. Fire regenerates a bush swathed land of Banksias and Eucalyptus, as fire leaping traditions of Chaharshanbe Suri held prior to Nowruz (Iranian New Year) welcome new beginnings- L.Abroon’s charred painting surfaces burn to revitalise. Renewal found in destructive force, renewal that equates to survival in a land under constant war and unrest. To understand where one comes from is to assert the possibility of belonging anywhere; L.Abroon’s practice positions the survival of identity to lie not in returning to an imagined home, but in continually making one.

Frankie L.Abroon is an Iranian and Anglo-Australian multidisciplinary artist living and working on Eora and Cammeraygal Country. A graduate of the National Art School, she completed her Master of Fine Arts in 2025 and was awarded the National Art School's prestigious Lift Off Award. Winner of the Grace Cossington Smith Emerging Artist Award in 2026, awarded by Barry Keldoulis- Senior Art Consultant at Artbank and Anna Davis- curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, and finalist of the Mosman Art Prize in 2022, among other prizes, she has established a solid foundation as an emerging exhibiting artist. She was also commissioned by the City of Sydney and Create NSW to create a 75-metre mural in Darlinghurst in collaboration with Kim Leutwyler, Jamie Perez, Dylan Mooney and Kika Kererū. Represented by Eloise Cato Gallery, her work is held in private collections across Australia and overseas.