Jane Frazer
Designer/Maker
Employment
I live and work in Jesmond, Newcastle as a Sole Trader, trading as Jane Frazer.
Specialising in textile installations, photography, video filming and production, digital art, graphic design, acrylic sculptures and jewellery.
Previous Employment
Voluntary chair person /director of Limousine Bull Artists’ Collective, Aberdeen 2006/08.
Part-time Lecturer at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen 2001/2002
Visiting Lecturer NIFT, New Delhi 2000
Education
BA Hon (1st) Design and Craft, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen 2001
Group Exhibitions
Christmas exhibition Cobalt, Newcastle 2010
Treasure Ardo House, NEOS 2010
Designed and Made
Showcase Durham Light Infantry Museum 2010
Christmas exhibition Cobalt, Newcastle 2009
Scratching the Surface Ardo House, NEOS 2009
Tools of the Trade Designed and Made/Woodhorn Museum 2009
Home Grown Talent 111 Duff House 2008
Thinking Space Limousine Bull Selected 2008
Member’s Exhibition
Bridge View
A Touch of Red MUSA, Aberdeen 2007
Installation The Wallace Space, London 2007
A Breath of fresh Air NEOS 2007 exhibition
Creative Space Scotland 2007
Degrees of Abstraction Bridge View 2007
Video screenings and Musa Art Café and Restaurant 2007
sculpture
B Sides in Oklahoma Scottish Screen Production 2006
Solo exhibitions
Memory – experimental 3D screen and video projection installation
funded by SAC, Aberdeen City Council and Limousine Bull 2007
Commissions
Stolt Offshore, Fabric and Perspex Installation 1998
Det Norske Veritas
Painting ‘New Horizons’ and interior design contract 1997 – 1998
Awards
Aberdeenshire Visual Arts Award 2007
Lund Humphries Prize at Designer Crafts 2004
Riverside Gallery Award for Modern Art 2003
Texere Yarns Student Sponsorship 2001
Aberdeen Weaver Incorporation Education Extension Award 2000
Ede and Ravenscroft Award 1998
Memberships
Designed and Made, Professional Member 2008-
Member of the Aberdeen City Culture Forum 2007-08
Elected to Membership of the Society of Designer Craftsmen 2002 -
Q&A's
Describe your creative practice in 20 single words.
Innovative
Contemporary
Self-employed
Weaving
Crochet
Knitting
Textile
Multimedia
Wire
Video
Photography
Projection
Digital
Sole-trader
Mentor
Collaborative
Installation
Commission
Painting
Research
Describe your influences using 30 single words or short phrases.
Reflection
Movement
Light
Water
Transparency
Physical properties
Continual change
Theory of Space
Philosophy of space
Perception of space
Memory
Psychology
Biological science
Materials
Processes
Technology
Rural Environment
Urban environment
Global warming
Architecture
Surrealists
Anish Capor
Anthony Gormley
Andy Goldsworthy
Mark Rothko
Patrick Heron
The weaver – Peter Collingwood
Video Artist – Pipilotti Rist
Chris Drury
The Californian light artists