Nina Fraser

Nina Fraser
Lisbon, Portugal

STATEMENT

I create artworks that reflect upon a sense of place to shape memory traces into physical form. Investigating ways of being, I explore ideas of transformation, connection and belonging through modes of thought, human and non-human systems and structures. My work is often transient, evading or in dialogue with its physical supports, utilising the tension between parameters to question how notions of identity and place can be explored. Working with a multidisciplinary approach that roots itself within the materiality of paper, I harness ephemera from my location to produce collages, paintings, and sculptures, intercepting other disciplines such as performance and poetry to activate meaning and generate connections. I am interested in collage as an act of arrangement. My artistic practice involves the development and instigation of spaces that encourage creative interactions, experimentation and exploration. Often working site-specifically and/or collaboratively, notions of authorship are blurred and the found image might be appropriated, contaminated, altered or destroyed.

BIO

Nina Fraser (1984) b. St. Albans, United Kingdom, graduated in Textile Art from Winchester College of Arts (United Kingdom) in 2006, and in 2023 completed a Masters level course in Commissioning & Curating Contemporary Public Art from the University of Gothenburg. An educator and mentor, Nina is also founder of Collage Working Club, an open group located in Lisbon that hosts workshops and talks on the artistic medium of collage and collage thinking whilst supporting artists develop their practice. Residencies include; “Plant thinking”, Estação Viva, Canelas, Portugal (2023); “Mycelium”, Roccamonfina, Italy (2023); LARGO Residências, Lisbon, Portugal (2022-23); and “BODY & PLACE”, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (2019). Individual exhibitions include: “A Study in Psycho-Cybernetics”, Marvila Art District, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); “Home”, Espaço Cultural Mercês, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); and “TAXIS DERMA”, Museum of Natural Science and History, Lisbon, Portugal (2019). Nina’s collages have been published in magazines and books, including Collage Care: Transforming Emotions & Life Experiences edited by The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, 2021. Nina’s work is represented in public and private collections including: The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, Yakima, Washington, USA; Coleção Grupo IMPRESSA, Lisbon, Portugal; Casa das Artes de Tavira, Portugal; Coleção Figueiredo Ribeiro, Abrantes, Portugal; Retroavangarda Gallery Collection, Warsaw, Poland amongst others.

ARTIST CONTACT

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