Amanda Fraser

Amanda Fraser is a fine artist, born Melbourne, Australia. Her work is collected nationally and internationally. Fraser exhibits in Melbourne, New York and London.
Life and work
Amanda Fraser majored in drawing and graduated in 1994 at the Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. She moved onto printmaking and painting, and began exhibiting at the Printmakers Guild Gallery in Melbourne in 1997.
Fraser has been selected in art prizes in Melbourne and overseas with Artholes Gallery, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria and Brunswick Street Gallery in 2008.
She has exhibited in three solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions since 2003 with Fitzroy Gallery, Pollock Gallery and McCulloch Gallery 2006.
Fraser was represented by Ward Nasse Gallery and Agora Gallery, New York in 2006-2007 and by traveling to New York City for the show, Fraser was so excited by the states she quickly produced a large series of Cityscapes in which she was to return in 2007 and explore more of America.
In 2008 Fraser exhibited at Tom Halford Gallery, London. Titled "The Golden Rule", Fraser produced 10 works on paper that portrayed her view of the human morale and empathy in which we see one another.
Fraser's paintings are also represented and collected at Eaglesnest Fine Art Gallery, Aireys Inlet, a seaside gallery on the Geat Ocean Road of Victoria, Australia.
Fraser was selected to exhibit at The Weekend Australian Art Melbourne 09 at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Melbourne in April 2009. The Studio was an initiative where buyers could "purchase art direct from the stars of the future." Through this event Fraser was commissioned to produce several cityscapes and received much interest in her work from both collectors and galleries in Melbourne and Sydney. Fraser travels frequently now for inspiration and currently resides in Melbourne.
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 Art from Down Under and Beyond of Australian and New Zealand artists at Agora Gallery, Soho, New York in 2006.
Collections
Fraser's work has been produced on album covers and inserts most recently for Danish band Mozart Khadaffi (a.k.a. Snuff Pop Inc.) 2009 and for bands in Melbourne, including Mr Floppy Recordings. Her paintings are printed in Disco Volante an annual magazine made in Melbourne by Blue Vapours, a Melbourne design company. Her work is shown in print form in Melbourne and New York.
The artist was featured in M magazine in 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.
Amanda Fraser is collected privately and publicly in Melbourne, Sydney, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, Scotland, London, U.S. and Portugal.

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