Jenny Fraser
Jenny Fraser (born 1971) is a digital media artist, curator and academic from the east coast of Australia.
Life
Fraser is an Indigenous Australian hailing from Yugambeh Bundjalung country in Australia's Scenic Rim Region on the border of South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers region in New South Wales.
Fraser has a PhD in creative research for her thesis, "The Art of Healing and Decolonisation", graduating through Batchelor Institute in the Northern Territory. She also completed her Masters in Indigenous Wellbeing at Ginibi College, Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales.[1]
In her art practice she takes iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. Her work is exhibited and screened both nationally and internationally and has been included in shows such as Interactiva – a biennale at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán, MACAY, Merida, Mexico (2003),[2] and the inaugural Indigenous Art Award at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (2008).
Fraser uses a range of creative mediums including video installation, photography, animation, text and experimental film. Her practice has also been partly defined through a commitment to collaboration with others, leading to involvement with artist networks such as Boomalli Artists Cooperative, and also as a founding member of Camera Mob[3] and one of the ten original founders of ProppaNow.[4]
Fraser is an award-winning artist and in 2012 received an Australia Council Fellowship at the 5th National Indigenous Arts Award held at the Sydney Opera House for her project titled midden,[5] and also a 2022 Varuna First Nations Fellowship for her narrative non-fiction manuscript, Jidda. Her work is also received positively in reviews[6] and is featured in art collections around the world.[7]
Fraser has travelled extensively and completed cultural residency programs from remote communities in Queensland and the Northern Territory and overseas to the Rocky Mountains in Canada, at the Banff Arts Center, and also the first artist-in-residence for the NewFlames program in Brisbane.
As an artist curator, Fraser has been growing the field of Aboriginal Media Arts, founding cyberTribe[8] Online Gallery in 2000, the National Experimental Film Festival at the Gold Coast,[9] and the Blackout Collective[10] in 2002, then Solid Screen Festival [11]and Retreats since 2014.
She was the first Aboriginal curator to present a Triennial exhibition in Australia: The other APT[12] (2006) that coincided and responded to the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane. That exhibition was then invited to tour to the Tjibaou Center Culturel in Noumea, New Caledonia, and in 2008 was also one of the first and few Indigenous-curated shows accepted for inclusion in the history of the Biennale of Sydney (2008).
Fraser was also part of the curatorial working group for conVerge - where art and science meet[13] at the 2002 Adelaide Biennial, which was Australia's first major exhibition of art science and new media artworks. Fraser was also invited to introduce Aboriginal Art into the JAALA[14] Biennial in Japan (2012) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
References
- ↑ "Jenny Fraser". Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. 2022-03-04. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
- ↑ Ferrera-Balanquet, Raul (4 August 2003). "InteractivA'03". rhizome. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ↑ Knowles, Rachael (January 28, 2021). "Community camera group creates safe storytelling space". National Indigenous Times.
- ↑ Gifford, Adam (7 June 2005). "Collective look beyond Aboriginal stereotypes". NZ Herald. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- ↑ Carter, Denise (26 March 2014). "Jenny Fraser collaborates with Native American artist James Luna at 2014 Adelaide Festival". The Cairns Post. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ↑ Butler, Sally (2006). "Other[wize]". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ↑ Ingram, Terry (Apr 22, 2004). "A powerful display of Aboriginal art". The Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ↑ Mundine, Djon (1 June 2015). "Jenny Fraser: The cyberTribe odyssey". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- ↑ O'Driscoll, Natalie (31 October 2019). "Jinda: Truth telling through film". Blank Street Press. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ↑ "Blackout Collective -> Aboriginal Media Arts". blackoutcollective.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ↑ Hagan, Stephen (4 July 2014). "Solid screen festival showcases 'solid sisters'". Issuu. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ↑ "cyberTribe Indigenous Online Gallery". www.cybertribe.culture2.org. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ↑ Art Gallery, of South Australia. "2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: ConVerge: where art + science meet". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ↑ Fraser, Jenny (7 November 2012). "Showing Aboriginal resilience in Japan". Healing Arts and Decolonisation. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
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