Biography

Nina Fraser (1984) b. St. Albans, UK, graduated in Textile Art from Winchester College of Arts (UK) in 2006, and in 2023 completed a Masters level course in Commissioning & Curating Contemporary Public Art from the University of Gothenburg. 

Nina creates artworks that reflect upon a sense of place to shape memory traces into physical form. Working with a multidisciplinary approach that roots itself within the materiality of paper, she harnesses ephemera from her location to produce collages, paintings, sculptures and installation.

Individual/duo exhibitions include: “Deliquesce”, Art Room, Lisbon (2024); “Vegetal Matters” with Arta Raituma, Estação Viva, Aveiro (2024) and “A Study in Psycho-Cybernetics”, Marvila Art District, Lisbon, Portugal (2023) and "TAXIS DERMA", Museum of Natural Science and History, Lisbon, Portugal (2019) . Residencies include; “Mycelium”, Roccamonfina, Italy (2023); “Plant thinking”, Estação Viva, Canelas, Portugal (2023); LARGO Residências, Lisbon, Portugal (2022-23); and “BODY & PLACE”, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, UK (2019). In 2025 she was a participatory artist for LABECO - Cooperative Laboratory for Artistic and Ecological Practices working between Lisbon and Marseille.

She develops projects and practical structures to improve our social and human experience, and has been working in the non-profit cultural sector since 2008, co-founding The Art House Community Interest Company in UK (2008-2014).
​She lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal, and is coordinator of Art & Craft Refúgio, a project supporting the integration of refugees and migrants through the sharing of creative skills and projects. 

​Nina’s collages have been published in magazines and books, including, most recently “Collage Care: Transforming Emotions & Life Experiences” edited by Kanyer Art Collection, 2021.Nina’s work is represented in the public and private collections including: Coleção Figueiredo Ribeiro, Portugal; The Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, USA; Coleção Grupo IMPRESSA, Portugal; Casa das Artes de Tavira, Portugal; Retroavangarda Gallery Collection, Poland amongst others.


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 Photography: Vitorino Coragem, 2023

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