Jacqueline Fraser
| Jacqueline Fraser | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jacqueline Fraser 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.
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’.
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)
In 1992 Fraser lived and worked in Avize, France, as the Moët et Chandon Fellow. 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. In 1997 Fraser created the major installation Te Ara a Hine for the opening of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
In 2001 Fraser, along with Peter Robinson, represented New Zealand in its first participation at the Venice Biennale. 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.
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. From 2000 she has purposefully recast her career and work in an international framework, living and working in Paris and New York.
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