Biography

​Nina Fraser (1984) b. St. Albans, UK, graduated in Textile Art from Winchester College of Arts (UK) in 2006, and completed a Masters level course in Commissioning & Curating Contemporary Public Art from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2023. 
Individual exhibitions include: "A Study of Psycho-cybernetics", Marvila Art District, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); Home", Espaço Cultural Mercês, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); "TAXIS DERMA", Museum of Natural Science and History, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); and "Sublime", Mute Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2019). Residencies include; "Plant thinking", Estação Viva, Canelas, Portugal (2023); "Mycelium", Roccamonfina, Italy, (2023); "BODY & PLACE", Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, UK, (2019); and MArt experimental learning program, Lisbon, Portugal (2015 - 17). Nina’s collages have been published in magazines and books worldwide. Nina’s work is represented in the public and private collections including: The Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, Yakima, WA, USA; Coleção Grupo IMPRESSA, Lisbon, Portugal; Casa das Artes de Tavira, Portugal; Coleção Figueiredo Ribeiro, Abrantes, Portugal; Retroavangarda Gallery Collection, Warsaw, Poland amongst others.

She co-creates projects and practical structures to improve our social and human experience, often working collaboratively within communities or non profit associations. She works as artistic coordinator of Art & Craft Refúgio - a project situated within Largo Residências, integrating migrants and refugees through regular meetings. An educator and mentor, Nina is also founder of Collage Working Club, an open group located in Lisbon that hosts workshops and talks on the artistic medium of collage and collage thinking whilst supporting artists develop their practice. 

​Artist Statement

I create artworks that reflect upon a sense of place to shape memory traces into physical form. Investigating ways of being, I explore human connection and belonging through modes of thought, human and non-human systems and structures. My work is often transient, evading or in dialogue with its physical supports, utilising the tension between parameters to question how notions of identity and place can be explored. Working with a multidisciplinary approach that roots itself within the materiality of paper, I harness ephemera from my location to produce collages, paintings, and sculptures, intercepting other disciplines such as performance and poetry to activate meaning and generate connections. My artistic practice involves the development and instigation of spaces that encourage creative interactions, experimentation and exploration. Often working site-specifically and/or collaboratively, notions of authorship are blurred and the found image might be appropriated, contaminated, altered or destroyed.


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 Photography: Vitorino Coragem, 2023

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