David Frazer

Born 1966, Foster, Victoria. Australia

Qualifications
1998-2000    Master of Arts (Visual Arts) by research: “Pastoral Melancholia”, Monash University
1996  Honours Degree, Fine Art (Printmaking), Monash University
1991  Diploma of Education (Secondary-Art/Craft), Latrobe University
1984-1986    B.A. Fine Arts (Painting), Phillip Institute of Technology

Solo Exhibitions
2007  “Passing through the old world”  Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2006  “On the Edge of Town”  Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne.
2006  “Mr Vertigo” ICON gallery, Deakin Museum of Art. Melbourne
2005  “Somewhere over the hill” Dickerson Gallery Sydney
2005  “The Escape” Australian Galleries Melbourne
2004-2005    “Pastoral Melancholia” (touring show) Shepparton Art Gallery, Horsham Art Gallery, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery.Sale.
2004  Hamilton Art Gallery
2004  “Wanderlust” Firestation print studio, Armadale, Melbourne
2002  Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2001  Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000  Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
1999  Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1997  Helengory Galerie, Melbourne
1996  Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale

Duo Exhibitions
2006  David Frazer/Jon Eiseman, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2003  David Frazer/Bruce Latimer, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

Group Exhibitions
2007 05        Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award. Banyule Art Space Ivanhoe VIC
2007 97        Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards (1997 acquired) Geelong Gallery VIC
2007  International Print Bienial in Guanlan China, (major prize winner)
2007  CPM National Print Award, Tweed River Art Gallery NSW
2007  Burnie Print Prize,(acquisative prize winner) Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS
2006  Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Awards, Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD
2007 06 02 01 99 98         Shell Fremantle Print Award, WA
2006 04 02 00        Silk Cut Award, Glen Eira Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC
2006  Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC
2006  The Bookplate Show, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
2005  Seoul International Print,Photo,Edition works Art Fair, South Korea
2005  33 Print exchange portfolio curated by Rona Green, Port Jackson Press Australia
2005  Recent Acquisitions: Deakin University Art Collection, ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC
2005  Australia-art & about, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2004  Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, VIC
2004  The Outback Art Prize (1st prize), Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2003  500 Fridays - Plein Air Painters, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2003  Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, U.K.
2003-05       5th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, U.K.
2003  100 International Contemporary Bookplates, U.K.
2002 00 99   Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
2002  Whyalla Art Prize, SA
2002 00        John Leslie Art Prize (judges commendation 00), Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
2002  Sub-500, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001  4th Artists' Books + Multiples Fair, School of Arts, Brisbane, QLD
2001  Stumped, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne, VIC
2001  Melbourne Savage Club Art Prize for Landscape Painting, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2001 97        C.P.M. Print Award, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2001 99 97   Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award (acquired 97/99/01), Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
2000  Dancing Made a Man Out of Me, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, VIC
2000  Team of the Decade, The Artist's Garden, Fitzroy, VIC
2000  Postcard Show (prize winner), Linden Arts Centre & Gallery, St. Kilda, VIC
1999  Pleasure, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
1999-97       3rd British International Miniature Print Exhibition, U.K.
1998  The Big small Print Show, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
1998  The Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW
1998  Bathurst Art Purchase, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
1998  International Miniature Art Biennial, Quebec, Canada
1998  Intaglio +, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne, VIC
1996  Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
1996  Annual Summer Print Show, Helengory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC

Awards, Commissions, Prizes
2007  CPM National Print Awards, Tony Abernethy memorial Award (Acquisitive Award)
2007  International Print Biennial in Guanlan China, (major prize winner)
2007  Burnie Print Prize (acquisative prize winner)
2007  Artist in residence, Firbank Grammar School Brighton, Vic
2004  Broken Hill Outback Art Prize (1st Prize), Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2002  Keith Wingrove Bookplate Design Award (1st prize)
2001  Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust
2001 99 97   Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award (acquired 97/99/01), Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
2001 97        Print Council of Australia, commissioned print
2000  Linden Arts Centre Postcard Show (prize winner)
1998  Australian Post Graduate Award (MA scholarship), Monash University
1997  Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize (acquired), Geelong Art Gallery
1996  Port Jackson Press Award

Publications
2007   ABC TV “Artists at work”, 28/08/07
2006  Herald Sun, Jeff Makin, 19-09-06
2006  Overland Magazine, “the Branded Landscape”, Dr Mark Dober, ed.183 Winter.
2006  Imprint, Jazmina Cininas, vol. 41, no. 2, winter
2005  The Age, Robert Nelson, 08/04/05
2004  The Saturday Age,  Megan Backhouse,  24/07/04
2004  Herald Sun,  Jeff Makin,  17/05/04
2003  5th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, U.K.
2003  Canberra Times, Sonia Barron, 18/03/03
2001  The Age, Robert Nelson, 17/11/01
2001  Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Allan Mann, Warrnambool Art Gallery
2001  “David Frazer”, Martin Flanagan, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001  “Stumped: The Art of Celebrating Conservation”, Rachel Young, Herring Island Gallery & Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne
2001  Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
2000  Silk Cut Award, Glen Eira Arts Centre, Melbourne
2000  John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2000  Sydney Morning Herald, Courtney Kidd, 06/12/00
1999  Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Di Waite, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1999  Imprint Magazine, Jeff Faulkner, vol. 34, no. 3, Spring
1999  Melbourne Yarra Leader, Stephen Marmo, 16/08/99
1999  The Age, Robert Nelson, 04/08/99
1999  Herald Sun, Jeff Makin, 02/08/99
1997-99       British International Miniature Print Exhibition, U.K.
1996  Imprint Magazine, Naomi Florence, vol. 31, no. 3, Spring

Collections
Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales,  Art Gallery of South Australia,  Arts Victoria,  Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery,  Bundanon Trust,  Burnie Regional Art Gallery TAS,  Arjo Wiggons/Canson Australia,  Castlemaine Art Gallery VIC, Charles Darwin University Art Collection NT,  City of Campbelltown Art Gallery,  City of Whitehorse VIC,  City of Banyule VIC,  City of Fremantle WA,  Clontarf Beach High school,  Curtin University of Technology WA,  Deakin University Art Collection VIC,  Flinders University Library Adelaide,  Geelong Art Gallery VIC,  Gippsland Art Gallery VIC,  Gladstone Regional Art Gallery,  Gold Coast City Art Gallery QLD,  Hamilton Art Gallery VIC,  Horsham Art Gallery VIC,  Ipswich Regional Art Gallery,  James Cook University of Nth. QLD,  John Curtain University,  Latrobe Regional Art Gallery VIC,  Melbourne University,  Melbourne Grammar,  McKinnon Secondary College,  Monash University Library,  National Library of Australia,  New England Regional Art Museum NSW,  Presbyterian Ladies College VIC,  Print Council of Australia,  RACV Art Collection,  Rockhampton Art Gallery QLD,  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology VIC,  Sandgate High school,  SCEGS Redlands,  State Library of Victoria,  State Library of NSW,  State Library of Queensland,  Stonnington City Council,  Tweed River Art Gallery NSW,  The University of Adelaide,  The University of Queensland Library,  University of Wollongong,  Warrnambool Art Gallery VIC,  Wesley College,  Wellington Point State High school,  Westminster School & private.

Overseas
Edinburgh Print Workshop,  London Print Workshop,  Somerset Printmaking Papers, U.K.
Chiangmai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand & private.

Statement

I am an Australian artist living in Melbourne who works with wood engraving, painting, etching, lithography, lino and bronze.
A narrative runs through my work portraying the story of the lonely rural misfit dreaming of  being somewhere else and being someone more interesting.  Dreaming of love and home and dreaming of burning it all down and escaping.  He’s Mr Vertigo, wanting fame and success, (to be popular really), wanting to fly but afraid of heights.

My work is accessible, sometimes melancholic and sometimes humourous.