Kate Fraser is a painter and a printmaker, mostly working with intaglio printmaking. Her work focuses on architecture and the urban environment, depicting ordinary buildings and spaces that catch her eye or hold some personal significance for her. The work draws attention to the unobserved and everyday aspects of our shared landscape and the edgelands of cities and seeks to draw out the accidental poetry of the commonplace. It could be summed up by the phrase ‘start where you are’. The basis of her work is drawing and she enjoys the immediacy of observational drawing in the city or landscape, later working up ideas in her paintings and prints. Fraser studied and worked in architecture for many years and has always maintained a parallel art practice, drawing and painting the world about her. In 2000 she graduated from the University of the West of England with an MA in Interdisciplinary Printmaking, specialising in intaglio printmaking, especially low-technology methods such as collagraph and Tetrapak printing, as well as screen print. Fraser has exhibited in a number of large mixed exhibitions, including at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2019 and 2022.
Kate Fraser is a painter and a printmaker, mostly working with intaglio printmaking. Her work focuses on architecture and the urban environment, depicting ordinary buildings and spaces that catch her eye or hold some personal significance for her. The work draws attention to the unobserved and everyday aspects of our shared landscape and the edgelands of cities and seeks to draw out the accidental poetry of the commonplace. It could be summed up by the phrase ‘start where you are’. The basis of her work is drawing and she enjoys the immediacy of observational drawing in the city or landscape, later working up ideas in her paintings and prints. Fraser studied and worked in architecture for many years and has always maintained a parallel art practice, drawing and painting the world about her. In 2000 she graduated from the University of the West of England with an MA in Interdisciplinary Printmaking, specialising in intaglio printmaking, especially low-technology methods such as collagraph and Tetrapak printing, as well as screen print. Fraser has exhibited in a number of large mixed exhibitions, including at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2019 and 2022.