jenny fraser
Works in Stock | Biography |Media Release | All is Calm


© 2010



 

Born: 1971 Mareeba QLD
Language: Yugambeh
Country: Yugambeh of the Bundjalung Nation
Area: South-east QLD and northern NSW border


  EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS
2010
All is Calm FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2010
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (FireWorks Gallery) Tanks Art Centre Cairns
2010
Melbourne Art Fair (FireWorks Gallery) Royal Exhibition Building Carlton Melbourne
2009
Sculpture + Works on Paper fireworks gallery Brisbane
2008 Blue: a group exhibition fireworks gallery Brisbane
Festival de decouverte de la Culture Contemporaine Aborigine Avignon France
Hand in Hand’ Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative & the Performanca Space @ CarriageWorks for Sydney Mardi Gras in the mean time Neue Galerie Dachau, Bavaria, Germany & Raw Space Galleries Brisbane
2007 La Revanche des Genres: Art Contemprain Australien’ Les Brasseurs Liege Belgium & Cite Paris France
Metis Media Festival Ottowa Ontario Canada
EF Online 07 Electrofringe Festival
 
Newcastle Metis Media Festival Club Saw Ottowa Canada
All Stars Kuril Dhagun Indigenous Knowledge Centre Brisbane
under ground media arts festival Darwin
Fringe Festival Darwin, Northern Territory
Travelling Light InteractivA07 Biennale of Interactive and Electronic Arts Yucatan Mexico & the Dreaming Festival Queensland
a room for you WINDOWS AK07 Auckland Festival New Zealand
Australian Film Festival Calgary Alberta Canada
East Coast – I saw the sun Lismore Gallery Ozflix Australian Film Festival Toronto & Vancouver Canada
   
2006-7 a room for you Kuril Dhagun State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Mouvement Perpetual Cinema Antipodes Festival St Tropez France
NEW WAYS with Jason Davidson Raw Space Galleries Brisbane
Zero One ISEA – Inter-Symposium of Electronic Art San Jose California
Origins Colourise Festival Musgrave Park Brisbane
cut it out the Window @ Queensland Performing Arts Centre Brisbane
Forum International de P.A.U International Forum for Indigenous Peoples France
Outblack Containers Village Next Wave Festival Melbourne
2006 Two Way: Artists & Mentors (with Gloria Petyarre) fireworks Gallery Brisbane
2005-6 Raw-Mus Raw Space Gallery Brisbane
The Dark & the Light IV fireworks gallery Brisbane
Uncovered Raw Space Gallery ARC Biennial Brisbane
The Journey Art Station Kollmitzburg Austria
L’Art Urbain Du Pacifique Diff Art Pacific Castle of St Auvent Limousin France
Feathers Float the Other Gallery Banff Arts Centre Alberta Canada
Persistence Institute of Modern Art Screening Room Brisbane
2004 Cultural Copy Fowler Museum of Cultural History Uinversity of California USA
Aotearoa Barbie Centre of Contemporary Art Christchurch Aotearoa New Zealand
Spirit & Visiona Sammlung Essl Klosterneuburg Vienna Austria
2003 InteractivA03 Biennale of New Media Museum of Contemporary Art Merida Mexico
Murri All Stars Tu Wai Indigenous Resource Centre Whangarei Aotearoa New Zealand
not really queenz’land
 NEWflames Studios fireworks gallery Brisbane   
2002 Re-Identifications Australian Centre for Photography Sydney 
Sydney: Resort of Thieves New South Wales State Records Sydney
2001 Whats Love got to do with it? Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery Melbourne
InteractivA01 Biennale of New Media Museum of Contemporary Art Merida Mexico
2000 Project Wall Exhibition Australian Centre of Photography Sydney
  AWARDS + PRIZES
2007 (Honourable Mention) imagineNATIVE festival New Media Category Toronto Canada
(Judges Prize) Stockland Art Award Queensland
2006 (pre-selected) imagineNATIVE festival Toronto Canada
(pre-selected) Artworkers Award Brisbane
Gold Coast Indigenous Art & Design Award (Photography)
2004-5 Creative Fellowship Arts Queensland Brisbane
2003 Special Excellence Award in Arts and Culture Creative Industries Queensland University of Technology Alumni
(Finalist) ATOM Awards Melbourne
2002 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
2001 SBS Scholarship to attend the Australian Screen Directors Association Conference Melbourne
Recipient Women in Information Technology Postgraduate Scholarship Award
1999 Finalist Short Film Competition Channel V Sydney
1998 Finalist Best Short Film Pandanus Film Festival Noosa Queensland
  RESIDENCIES
2008 Marrackville Council National & International Residency Sydney
2007 24hr Art Contemporary Art Space Darwin
2005-6 Raw Space Galleries Brisbane
2005 ARTstation Kollmitzberg Austria
MVA Banff Arts Centre Alberta Canada
The Quarry Art Centre Whangarei Northland New Zealand
2004 Le Fevre High School Adelaide South Australia
2003 Communion & Other Conversations Indigenous Artists-In-Residence Program MVA Banff Canada
NEWflames program Campfire Group Studios fireworks gallery Brisbane
2002 Coen Community Cape York E-Book Production
Kaurna Plains Aboriginal School Adelaide Festival of Arts
2001 Hermannsburg Potters Hermannsburg Northern Territory 
  EDUCATION
2002-04 Master of Communication Indigenous New Media Arts by Research
1999 Graduate Diploma in Arts Film & Television Production QUT
1991-4 B. Education (Secondary) Art / Film & Media Majors QUT
  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007 Judge – Hora Hora Art Prize Whangarei Aotearoa New Zealand
2006 Judge – the Harries National Digital Art Award Queensland Health Skills Development Centre Peer reviewer -
Jury Peer – New Media Arts Canada Council for the Arts Ottowa Ontario Canada
New Media Cultures: Protocols for Producing Indigenous Australian New Media II
Current Production - Uniikup Productions Brisbane
2005-6 Working Group - Pacific Rim ISEA
2006 (Inter-Society for Electronic Arts)
2005-6 Board – Queensland Museum Brisbane
2005 Coordinator – Austrian Tour of Aboriginal New Media Artists Blackout Collective
Current Board – Kummara Association Community Representative Brisbane
2004-6 co-Founder proppaNOW Artists Collective
Indigenous Content Advisor Electrofringe Festival Newcastle
New Media Coordinator Spirit + Vision: Aboriginal Art Sammlung Essl Museum Vienna
2003 WorkStudy - Indigenous Artists-In-Residence Program MVA Banff Canada
2002 Peer reviewer - New Media Cultures: Protocols for Producing Indigenous Australian New Media Publication
2001-2 Secretary National Experimental Film Festival Gold Coast Art Gallery
2000-2 Production Coordinator School of Arts Griffith University Brisbane
Board of Management Australian Network for Art & Technology Adelaide
2001 Peer Advisor Australia Council for the Arts Fund Assessment Meeting Sydney
Concept Designer Strong In the City Indigenous Health Project Brisbane
2000 Participant Vision Day for New Media Arts Australia Council for the Arts Sydney
Web Developer - Brisbane Writers Festival Website & GUMURRII Centre Website GU
1999 Current Freelance Curator cyberTribe Indigenous Art Online
Research Assistant for the Evaluation Team of the ATSI Studies Syllabus BOSSSS+QUT
1998 Art Director/ Wardrobe Designer Slaughter & Runner Brisbane
1997 Art Department/ Wardrobe Assistant/ Publicity Photographer. Mate 16mm Short Film
1995-00 Art / Film & TV Educator Secondary Schools Education Queensland
1989 Photographer for David Jones – Casual Cairns
  SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2008 ‘Political Kunst’ Art Monthly, March, #207, p7
2008 ’Von Wegen Menschenrechte’ Sued Deutsche, 24 January, R 2
2008 Politische Kunst aus Australien’ Sued Deutsche, 24 January, R 1
2007 'Kunst – zeitkritisch und intercontinental. Dachau January 25. Nr 21
2007 ‘Aboriginal New Media Art, a real cultural practice?’ Book: LA SFIDA DEL ARTE, the challenge of Art, Italy
2007 ‘APT: Aboriginal People Try’ Djon Mundine, Artlink Magazine, April 2007
2007 CollaboraNative, Flying Arts Annual Magazine, March
2007 Profile – NAVA Quarterly, March
2006 ‘the other APT, an exhibition of other perspectives’, Kylie Gaffney, Machine Magazine, p17
2006 ‘Another Viewpoint’, Ben Eltham, Courier Mail, 28 November, p 53
2006 ‘Grab Culture’, Sally Butler, Machine Magazine, p16
2006 ‘other[wize]’ Review by Sally Butler, Artlink Contemporary Art Quarterly Vol 26, No 2, p89
2006 ‘Make em Laugh’ Courier Mail, January 31st, p14
2006 ‘Transference, Tradition, Technology’ Native New Media, Exploring Visual & Digital Culture, Banff Art Centre, Canada
2005 ‘Interzone: Media Arts in Australia’, Book: New Art Series, Darren Tofts
2005 ‘Other[wize]: Jenny Fraser’ Catalogue Essay, Linda Carroli
2005 Catalogue: ARC Art, Design & Craft Biennial, October, p43
2005 ‘The Journey’, National Indigenous Times, October
2005 ‘From Oz to Austria’, Koori Mail, October
2005 Catalogue: L’Art urbain du Pacifique, Diff Art Pacific,August p22
2005 ‘Drumbeats to Drumbytes: Globalizing Networked Aboriginal Art’ Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media etc
2005 APTN National News, Canada, July 29 (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) Winnipeg
2005 ‘Collective look beyond Aboriginal stereotypes’ NZ Herald, 8.6.05
2005 ‘Indians in cyberspace’ Mike MacDonald, Conundrum Magazine, Urban Shaman Gallery, Canada
2005 ‘Let my neck be washed by the waters of my own land’ Ngahiraka Mason, ArtLink Magazine, Vol 24, p87
2005 ‘Night Vision’ Visual Art, Spinach 7 Magazine, issue 5, summer 2004/05, p 55
2004 ‘Bell tolls for Black Art in a White World’ the Adelaide Review, p 20, Stephanie Raddock
2004 ‘Wise to the Vibe’ Courier Mail, Aug 18, p25
2004 ‘Window to another world’ the Courier Mail, July 24, BAM 2, 2004
2004 ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ Sally Blundell, New Zealand Listener http://www.listener.co.nz/default,2285.sm
2004 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: Celebrating 20 Years, p35
2003 ‘Artists Program draws on inspiration’, Debra Aldred, Courier Mail, BAM, March 8
  COLLECTIONS
2007 Stockland, Brisbane; & University of Woollongong, NSW
2006 Private Collections
2005 ART station Kollmitzberg Austria
2004 Sammlung Essl Klosterneuburg Vienna Austria
2003 Private Collections
2003 Kummara Association Brisbane
2002 CAALAS Central Australian Aboriginal Legal
2001 RMIT Gallery Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne Stockland
2000 ACP - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney