Amanda Fraser

Amanda Fraser is a fine artist, born Melbourne, Australia. Her work is collected both nationally and internationally. Amanda exhibits in Melbourne, New York and London including representation by [http://www.wardnasse.org/ Ward Nasse Gallery] , [http://www.agoragallery.com Agora Gallery] , New York in 2006/2007 and exhibiting at [http://www.artrabbit.com/venues/venue/321/tom-halford-gallery Tom Halford Gallery] , London in 2008.

Life and work

Amanda Fraser majored in drawing and graduated in 1994 at the [http://www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/ Victoria College of the Arts] , Melbourne, Australia. She moved onto printmaking and painting, and began exhibiting at the Printmakers Guild Gallery, Melbourne in 1997 and being selected in art prizes since with [http://www.mirrorframes.com/gallery.htm Artholes Gallery] , [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~casvic/ Contemporary Art Society of Victoria] and [http://www.brunswickstreetgallery.com.au Brunswick Street Gallery] in 2008.She has exhibited in three solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions since 2003 with [http://www.thepicturehouse.com.au/pv1.html Fitzroy Gallery] , [http://www.pollockgallery.com.au Pollock Gallery] and [http://www.mccullochgallery.com.au McCulloch Gallery] . The artist's work is included in [http://www.artlooker.com Artlooker] an online International Art Gallery, London. Fraser travels frequently for inspiration and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Although selected to feature in an exhibition of Australian and New Zealand artists in New York in 2006, when it comes to making a break in the arts scene in Australia, her experience has been stultifying at best. "The art scene in Australia is kind of small. In more than one sense - small minded as much as anything else"Fact|date=August 2008 Fraser laments. "Surprisingly, I've found my work more readily accepted overseas than I have on my own soil." "You can bang your head against the wall as much as you like and they'll just tell you they currently represent thirty or forty other people, most of whom are mediocre but have been flogging themselves around the traps for decades. The leading galleries are hard to break into because they tend to only take artists who've been around for forty years. They don't take risks and neglect emerging artists."

Frustrated by this lack of responsiveness by the power brokers of Australian art, Fraser has found success by looking overseas."The great thing about galleries overseas is that established Australian artists are nobodies as far as they're concerned anyway. They tend to look at works on their own merits rather than some bogusly inflated reputation."Fact|date=August 2008 Fraser is currently working on a series to be exhibited at Tom Halford Gallery in London in November 2008.

Artwork

Fraser is best known for her strong cityscapes and landscapes, and her tonal and expressionistic figure paintings.Her genre exhibits her ability to deal successfully with the organization of shape and space as seen in her New York series, 2007. Fraser's style verges on abstract art as is exhibited by her use of dominant colour. Fraser produces contemporary art work which is challenging and emblematic, as reviewed in the exhibition of Australian and New Zealand artists, May 2006 at Agora Gallery, Soho, New York.

Collections

Fraser's work has been produced on album covers and inserts for bands in Melbourne, including Mr Floppy Recordings and her paintings are printed in [http://www.bluevapours.com.au/discovolante/discovolante.html Disco Volante] an annual magazine made in Melbourne by Blue Vapours [ [http://www.bluevapours.com.au Blue Vapours Design] (2005, 2006 & 2007)] , a Melbourne design company. Her work is also shown in print form in Melbourne and New York.The artist was featured in M magazine in The Sunday Age [ [http://www.theage.com.au The Sunday Age] ] , one of Melbourne's major newspapers, in April 2008. The article covered the best five ways of collecting affordable art in Australia in which Fraser's artwork was mentioned. Fraser has been commissioned to produce artwork for law firms, doctor's rooms and public murals in Melbourne to wineries and interior designers in South Australia and London.Amanda Fraser is collected both privately and publicly in Melbourne, Sydney, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, Scotland, London, U.S. and Portugal.Fact|date=August 2008

External links

* [http://www.artlooker.com Artlooker]
* [http://www.pollockgallery.com.au Pollock Gallery]
* [http://www.mccullochgallery.com.au McCulloch Gallery]
* [http://www.agora-gallery.com Agora Gallery]
* [http://www.wardnasse.org/ Ward Nasse Gallery]
* [http://www.artrabbit.com/venues/venue/321/tom-halford-gallery Tom Halford Gallery]

References

* http://www.amandafraser.id.au
* [http://www.bluevapours.com.au/discovolante/discovolante.html Disco Volante] magazine of [http://www.bluevapours.com.au Blue Vapours Design] editions 1, 2 and 3 (2005, 2006 & 2007)
* Five of the Best Affordable Art in the M Magazine of [http://www.theage.com.au The Sunday Age] 2008