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 2014 HUG Beaver Galleries Canberra 2013 HUG Dickerson Gallery Sydney 2013 Home Sweet Home Guanlan Original Print Base, Shenzen, China 2013 Hillsmith Gallery Adelaide 2012 Homesick James Makin Gallery Melbourne 2012 Port Jackson Press Print Room, Melbourne 2012 Homesick Beaver galleries Canberra 2011 Half way Home Falkner Gallery Castlemaine Victoria 2011 Last Blossom Rebecca Hossack Gallery London UK 2011 Works on paper Post Office Gallery Ballarat Uni. 2010 Broken Home James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2010 La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, Victoria 2009 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT 2009 The Art Vault Mildura VIC 2009 Falkner gallery Castlemaine Victoria 2008 Lost Dickerson Gallery Sydney 2008 Lost Dickerson Gallery Melbourne 2007 Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide 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 Exhibition 2014 International Print Biennial Exhibit, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art (Honourable mention) 2014 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery VIC 2013-14 Small Wonders Amelia Johnson Contemporary HONG KONG 2013 IMPRINT 2013:International Printmaking Artists Invitation Exhibition,Wuhan City, CHINA 2013 Australia: People and Places, Rebecca Hossack Gallery London UK 2013 Hutchins Art Prize, The Hutchins School, Hobart TAS (acquired & peoples choice award winner) 2013 06 04 02 00 Silk Cut Award, Glen Eira Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC (acquisition prize 2013) 2013 07 06 02 01 99 Shell Fremantle Print Award, WA (highly commended & peoples choice award winner 2013) 98 2013 11 07 97 Geelong acquisitive Print Award, Geelong Gallery Victoria (acquired 2013,2011,1997) 2013 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery NSW 2013 King Valley Art Show (Grand Prize Winner), VIC 2013 11 04 The Outback art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW (1 st prize 2004) 2012 The 1 st Lingshi International Print Biennial in China 2012 5 th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Museum of China 2012 International Print triennial Cracow Poland 2012 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery Sale Victoria 2012 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery Victoria 2012 Fusion-International Contemporary Intaglio Print Invitational Exhibition, Guanlan Print Base China 2012 Royal Acadamy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London UK 2012 3 rd Bangkok Triennale International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Thailand 2012 09 R&M McGivern Prize for Painting, Maroondah Art Gallery. VIC 2014 12 10 06 04 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery VIC 2011 09 07 International Print Bienial in Guanlan China (major prize winner 2007) 2011 Rick Amor Print Prize, Montsalvat VIC 2011 Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery TAS 2010 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2009 SCU Acquisitive Artist Book Award, Southern Cross University NSW
2009 Brunswick Street Gallery works on paper prize, Melbourne VIC (acquisitive prize winner) 2009 07 CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery NSW (prize winner 07) 2009 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize 2009 Strathbogies, Altitude art, James Makin Gallery, Armadale, VIC 2008 Against the grain Port Jackson Press, Melbourne 2008 The 2nd Bangkok Triennale, Internationa; Print & Drawing Exhibition, Thailand 2008 BIMPE V the Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver Canada 2007 05 Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award. Banyule Art Space Ivanhoe VIC 2007 Burnie Print Prize,(acquisative prize winner) Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS 2006 Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Awards, Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD 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 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 5 th 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 3 rd 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, Residencies 2013 Fremantle Print Award WA, highly commended, Peoples Choice Award 2013 Silk Cut Award for Linocuts MELB AUS, acquisition prize 2013 Hutchins Art Prize TAS, acquisition prize, Peoples Choice Award 2013 Artist in residence Guanlan Print Base China 2012 Artist in residence, Wesley Collage Melbourne
2010 Artist in residence Guanlan Print Base China 2009 Brunswick Street Gallery Works on Paper Prize, (Acquisitive Award), Melbourne VIC 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 09 Broken Hill Outback Art Prize (1 st Prize 04), Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery 2002 Keith Wingrove Bookplate Design Award (1 st 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 07 09 11 13 Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize (acquired 97, 07, 11, 13), Geelong Art Gallery 1996 Port Jackson Press Award Publications 2012 The Canberra Times, Sasha Grishen, 12-5-12 2009 The Canberra Times, Sasha Grishin, 31-7-09 2008 The Age, Robert Nelson 17-7-08 2008 Herald Sun, Jeff Makin 25-6-08 2007 ABC TV Artist 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, Charles Sturt University NSW, 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 Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, 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, Guanlan Culture & Art Center, Shenzen China, London Print Workshop, Somerset Printmaking Papers, U.K., Chiangmai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand & private.