Jacqueline Fraser

Jacqueline Fraser
Born Jacqueline Fraser
(1956-03-14)14 March 1956
Dunedin, New Zealand
Education Elam School of Fine Arts, 1974 to 1977.
Known for Arts


Jacqueline Fraser (born 14 March 1956) is a New Zealand artist of Ngāi Tahu descent.[1][2]

Early life

Fraser was born in 1956 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland from 1974 to 1977.[2]

Work and career

Fraser's early work involved installations, inside gallery spaces and in outdoor environments, where she used natural and artificial materials which were woven, plaited, stretched and tied into delicate constructions.[2] Art historian Anne Kirker compared her work from the 1970s and 1980s to ‘three-dimensional drawings in space’.[3]:168

From early in her career Fraser was included in significant exhibitions, including the Mildura Sculpture Triennial (Mildura, Australia, 1978); the 1979 Biennale of Sydney; ANZART, the first Australia-New Zealand artist exchange, (Christchurch, 1981); Perspecta 1986 (Art Gallery of New South Wales); NZXI (Auckland City Art Gallery; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and Contemporary Art Institute, Brisbane, 1988)[2][3]:168

In 1992 Fraser lived and worked in Avize, France, as the Moët et Chandon Fellow.[4]On her return she made the site-specific work He Tohu: The New Zealand Room for the opening of City Gallery Wellington in its Civic Square location.[5] In 1997 Fraser created the major installation Te Ara a Hine for the opening of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[6]

In 2001 Fraser, along with Peter Robinson, represented New Zealand in its first participation at the Venice Biennale.[7] Fraser's installation work, A Demure Portrait of the Artist Strip Searched with 11 Details of Bi-Polar Disorder, is now in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[8]

Fraser’s work of the 1980s and 1990s was often discussed in contemporary art criticism and theory in terms of identity and cultural politics, and for links to her Māori heritage.[9] From 2000 she has purposefully recast her career and work in an international framework, living and working in Paris and New York.[10]

Fraser's recent work, such as THE MAKING OF THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE 2012 (City Gallery Wellington, 2011), THE MAKING OF AMERICAN GANGSTER 2012 (Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, 2012) and THE MAKING OF THE CIAO MANHATTAN TAPES 2013 (Adam Art Gallery, 2013), include collages in which clippings from magazines are mixed with other materials, such as gold foil, plastic, and wood veneer.[10] These collages are sometimes incorporated into multimedia installations in the gallery spaces, mixed with theatrical lighting, video projections, designer furniture, and cut-out figures, accompanied by soundtracks made from contemporary rap music, including Nicki Minaj and A$AP Rocky.[10]

Collections

Fraser's work is held in private and public collections including Auckland Art Gallery, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, the Sarjeant Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia.[11][12][13][14][15]

References

  1. ↑ "Jacqueline Fraser". Find NZ Artists. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Eastmond, Elizabeth; Penfold, Merimeri (1986). Women and the arts in New Zealand - Forty Works: 1936-86. Auckland: Penguin Books. ISBN 014009234X.
  3. 1 2 Kirker, Anne (1993). New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years (2nd ed.). Tortola, B.V.I.: Craftsman House. ISBN 9768097302.
  4. ↑ "About". City Gallery Wellington. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "He Tohu". City Gallery Wellington. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "History". Friends of Te Papa. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan. "Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu - Contemporary Māori art in the 2000s". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "A Demure Portrait of the Artist Strip Searched with 11 Details of Bi-Polar Disorder". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. ↑ Stocker, Mark. "Sculpture and installation art - Māori sculptors". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 Barton, Christina (2013). The Making of The Ciao Manhattan Tapes 2013. Wellington: Adam Art Gallery. ISBN 9781877309281.
  11. ↑ "Jacqueline Fraser". Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Fraser, Jacqueline". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Jacqueline Fraser". Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "Jacqueline Fraser". Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "Jacqueline Fraser CV" (PDF). Michael Lett Gallery. Retrieved 2 January 2015.

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