Helen Fraser
Gisborne, Victoria
Australian Artist creating drawings and textiles that connects the past to the present using symbols that can lead to healing and growth.
MessageHelen Fraser is a mid career visual artist connecting the past to the present using symbols that can lead to healing and growth. Fascinated by dreams and the relationship between the conscious and unconscious, Helen creates drawings, paintings, textiles and installations that explore history, memory, place and identity in ways that commemorate, memorialise, process and transform.
Statement
Helen was born in 1970 in Kyneton, Central Victoria, Australia. She is a mid-career artist whose drawings and textiles have been featured in MindFood Magazine and Down Under Textiles and she has been interviewed by ABC Radio Bendigo and Canberra. Her quilt block from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights quilt project was projected onto the front of Old Parliament House during Enlighten Canberra Festival 2019.
Over the last five years she has developed a community called Yumi Olgeta: Crafting a More Inclusive Democracy with the descendants of Australia's slave trade of blackbirding. She runs regular craft workshops to bring further recognition to this history.
Helen currently lives and works in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia. Her work is held in private and public collections in Australia, NZ, USA, Canada and Italy. Her work can be purchased through regular solo and group shows, Falkner Gallery Castlemaine and Radius Art Hepburn Springs in Victoria, Australia and her mailing list. Studio visits can be arranged by appointment.
5% of all profits from this business are donated to the Australian South Sea Islanders, Port Jackson, Sydney on an annual basis.