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jenny fraser
 | Biography: Jenny Fraser was born in Far North Queensland. Her family hails from the Yugambeh/Mununjali, adjacent to the SE/QLD and Northern NSW border in Australia. Jenny works at the nexus of art, film-making and electronica. Because of the diverse creative mediums Jenny uses, much of her work defies categorisation. More recently her work takes iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. With a laconic sense of humour she picks away at the fabric of our society, exposing contradictions, absurdities, and denial.
Her practice is also partly defined through a strong commitment to collaboration with others, which in turn leads to involvement in a new wave of exciting artists networks. Jenny’s recent Arts Qld Creative Fellowship work other[wize] is a screen-based project that celebrates the lives of Mununjali family members that were moved from their traditional homelands, to work on properties in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Importantly, this artwork is an insider perspective that highlights an era of colonial “Queensland” that explores the prickly issues of Native Policing, Dispossession, Displacement, Massacres and Survival. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including 'Cultural copy' at the Fowler Museum in San Francisco and Interactiva01 and Interactive03, Biennales at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico. Jenny founded and curates the Indigenous online gallery- cyberTribe. Country: australia Birthyear: 1971 Galleries: Fire-Works Gallery, Raw Space Gallery, ARC Biennial, Brisbane
Art Station, Kollmitzburg, Austria
Castle of St Auvent, Limousin, France
the Other Gallery, Banff Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, California, USA
CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria
Biennale of New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Merida, Mexico
Tu Wai Indigenous Resource Centre, Whangarei, Aotearoa, NZ
ACP – Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
NSW State Records, The Rocks, Sydney
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Project Wall Exhibition, ACP - Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney
Awards: Creative Fellowship – 1 year, Arts Queensland, Brisbane
Special Excellence Award in Arts and Culture, Creative Industries, QUT Alumni
Finalist, Best Website… ATOM [Australian Teachers of Media] Awards, Melbourne
Recipient – APA: Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
SBS Scholarship to attend the Australian Screen Directors Association Conference, Melbourne
Recipient – WIT [Women in Information Technology] Postgraduate Scholarship Award 2001
Finalist - Short Film Competition - Channel V, Sydney
Finalist – Best Short Film - Pandanus Film Festival - Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Q
Media: computer or digital art Style: other, non-linear documentary Subjects: landscapes and nature |
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