Jacqueline Fraser

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

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. Art historian Anne Kirker compared her work from the 1970s and 1980s to 'three-dimensional drawings in space'.{{cite book|last1=Kirker|first1=Anne|title=New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years|date=1993|publisher=Craftsman House|location=Tortola, B.V.I.|isbn=9768097302|edition=2nd}}{{Rp|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 developed by artist and curator Ian Hunter in (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){{Rp|168}} Fraser was also one of seven artists in the 'ground-breaking' 1990 exhibition Choice! curated by George Hubbard for Artspace in Auckland.{{Cite news |last=Dale |first=Richard |date=16 August 1990 |title=Art from the Environment |work=New Zealand Herald}}

In 1992 Fraser lived and worked in Avize, France, as the Moët et Chandon Fellow.{{cite web|title=About|url=http://citygallery.org.nz/about|website=City Gallery Wellington|access-date=2 January 2015}} Having previously worked more spontaneously with space inside galleries, Fraser found that this was not possible in French galleries, which had stricter requirements and required plans to be submitted beforehand.{{cite book|title=Contemporary New Zealand Art 1 |first1=Elizabeth |last1=Caughey |first2=John |last2=Gow |year=1997 |isbn=1-86953-218-X |publisher=Everbest Printing |pages=18–19}} 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.{{cite web|title=He Tohu|url=http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/he-tohu-new-zealand-room|website=City Gallery Wellington|access-date=2 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921055605/http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/he-tohu-new-zealand-room|archive-date=21 September 2017|url-status=dead}} In 1997 Fraser created the major installation Te Ara a Hine for the opening of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.friendsoftepapa.org.nz/article/friends-te-papa-past-present-future/ |website=Friends of Te Papa|access-date=2 January 2015}}

In 2001 Fraser, along with Peter Robinson, represented New Zealand in its first participation at the Venice Biennale.{{cite web|last1=Mane-Wheoki|first1=Jonathan|title=Contemporary Māori art – ngā toi hōu – Contemporary Māori art in the 2000s|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/contemporary-maori-art-nga-toi-hou/page-5|website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|access-date=2 January 2015}} 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.{{cite web|title=A Demure Portrait of the Artist Strip Searched with 11 Details of Bi-Polar Disorder|url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/713416|website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|access-date=2 January 2015}}

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.{{cite web|last1=Stocker|first1=Mark|title=Sculpture and installation art – Māori sculptors|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/sculpture-and-installation-art/page-6|website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|access-date=2 January 2015}} From 2000 she has purposefully recast her career and work in an international framework, living and working in Paris and New York.{{cite book|last1=Barton|first1=Christina|title=The Making of The Ciao Manhattan Tapes 2013|date=2013|publisher=Adam Art Gallery|location=Wellington|isbn=9781877309281}}

Fraser's 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. 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. Examples of these works were paired with photographs from Australian artist Tracey Moffat's Up in the sky series in the 2016 exhibition Filmic imaginaries: Jacqueline Fraser and Tracey Moffatt at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.{{cite web|title=Filmic imaginaries: Jacqueline Fraser and Tracey Moffatt|url=http://arts.tepapa.govt.nz/on-the-wall/filmic-imaginaries-jacqueline-fraser-and-tracey-moffatt|website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|access-date=29 September 2016}}

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.{{cite web | url=http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/the-collection/browse-artists/1981/jacqueline-fraser | title=Jacqueline Fraser | website=Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki | access-date=2 January 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Person/3060 | title=Fraser, Jacqueline | website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | access-date=2 January 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/objects/99-621-9/ | website=Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu | title=Jacqueline Fraser | access-date=2 January 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103080004/http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/objects/99-621-9/ | archive-date=3 January 2015 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://collection.govettbrewster.com/search.do;jsessionid=E5wZGqrIsxS5uk6CUCmnwr13?id=8932&db=object&view=detail&mode=1 | title=Jacqueline Fraser | website=Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | access-date=2 January 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://michaellett.com/img/Jacqueline_Fraser_3.pdf | title=Jacqueline Fraser CV | website=Michael Lett Gallery | access-date=2 January 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103090050/http://michaellett.com/img/Jacqueline_Fraser_3.pdf | archive-date=3 January 2015 | url-status=dead }}

Major influences on Fraser's art include her love of Renaissance art, as well as her Māori and Scottish heritage.

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• Francis Pound, Exhibitions: Dunedin, Art New Zealand, no. 12, Winter 1979. Retrieved 2 January 2015
• Neil Rowe, Twenty One Sculptors in Masterton, Art New Zealand, no. 16 Winter 1980. Retrieved 2 January 2015
• Barbara Strathdee, Women Artists At The F1 New Zealand Sculpture Project, Art New Zealand, no. 26, Autumn 1983. Retrieved 26 June 2015
• Megan Dunn, Prospect Upstairs, Eye Contact, 19 December 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2015
• Peter Ireland, Dark, Eye Contact, 11 June 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2015
• Robert Leonard, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Eyeline, no. 73, 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2015
• [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Person/3060 Jacqueline Fraser] in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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