Nina Fraser

Folhas do Inverno (Winter leaves)‘ is a body of work that has been in development since early winter 2021, encapsulating traces of foliage collected from the woods close to her family’s home in Dorset, UK. The process of frottage attempts to preserve something already decomposing using a variety of unusual material techniques – demonstrating an intervention into the natural cycles of decay and regrowth. A visual poetry of quiet fragments lodges within the memory, and it is these small records that allow healing, mourning, and to acknowledge, with a certain nostalgia, where destruction can represent a new creative ecosystem.

Nina Fraser (1984) b. St. Albans, UK, graduated in Textile Art from Winchester College of Arts (UK) in 2006, and is currently undertaking a Masters level course in Commissioning & Curating Contemporary Public Art from the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden. Nina’s practice is multidisciplinary, exploring human interaction and relationship with the environment, in particular the dimension between personal and collective landscape and how these mutate through times of disruption and chaos. Residencies include; LARGO Residências, Lisbon, Portugal, (2022); BODY & PLACE, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, UK, (2019); and MArt experimental learning program, Lisbon, Portugal (2015 – 17). Individual exhibitions include: “Home”, Espaço Cultural Mercês, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); “TAXIS DERMA”, Museum of Natural Science and History, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); and “Sublime”, Mute Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2019). Nina’s collages have been published in magazines and books, including, most recently “Collage Care: Transforming Emotions & Life Experiences” edited by Kanyer Art Collection, 2021. Nina’s work is represented in the public and private collections including: The Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, Yakima, WA, USA; Coleção Grupo IMPRESSA, Lisbon, Portugal; Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira, Portugal; Coleção Figueiredo Ribeiro, Abrantes, Portugal; Retroavangarda Gallery Collection, Warsaw, Poland amongst others. She lives in Portugal, and works as artistic coordinator of Art & Craft Refúgio – a project integrating migrants and refugees in central Lisbon, with sponsorship from the Gulbenkian PARTIS & Art For Change fund.

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Folhas do Inverno (Winter leaves)‘ is a body of work that has been in development since early winter 2021, encapsulating traces of foliage collected from the woods close to her family’s home in Dorset, UK. The process of frottage attempts to preserve something already decomposing using a variety of unusual material techniques – demonstrating an intervention into the natural cycles of decay and regrowth. A visual poetry of quiet fragments lodges within the memory, and it is these small records that allow healing, mourning, and to acknowledge, with a certain nostalgia, where destruction can represent a new creative ecosystem.

Nina Fraser (1984) b. St. Albans, UK, graduated in Textile Art from Winchester College of Arts (UK) in 2006, and is currently undertaking a Masters level course in Commissioning & Curating Contemporary Public Art from the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden. Nina’s practice is multidisciplinary, exploring human interaction and relationship with the environment, in particular the dimension between personal and collective landscape and how these mutate through times of disruption and chaos. Residencies include; LARGO Residências, Lisbon, Portugal, (2022); BODY & PLACE, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, UK, (2019); and MArt experimental learning program, Lisbon, Portugal (2015 – 17). Individual exhibitions include: “Home”, Espaço Cultural Mercês, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); “TAXIS DERMA”, Museum of Natural Science and History, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); and “Sublime”, Mute Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2019). Nina’s collages have been published in magazines and books, including, most recently “Collage Care: Transforming Emotions & Life Experiences” edited by Kanyer Art Collection, 2021. Nina’s work is represented in the public and private collections including: The Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, Yakima, WA, USA; Coleção Grupo IMPRESSA, Lisbon, Portugal; Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira, Portugal; Coleção Figueiredo Ribeiro, Abrantes, Portugal; Retroavangarda Gallery Collection, Warsaw, Poland amongst others. She lives in Portugal, and works as artistic coordinator of Art & Craft Refúgio – a project integrating migrants and refugees in central Lisbon, with sponsorship from the Gulbenkian PARTIS & Art For Change fund.

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