MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CERAMICS, GENEVA.

EDUCATION

2001   Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts (majoring in Ceramics) Monash University Victoria Australia.

1981    Diploma of Visual Arts (majoring in Ceramics), Canberra School of Art (now the Australian National University) ACT Australia

ACADEMIC PROFILE

1996-2020 Ceramics lecturer National Art School, Sydney Australia, TAFE NSW

 SOLO SHOWS

2022 In a Ritual Sense : Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2019    Touch:  Sydney Grammar School, Sydney, Australia

2018      Iconoplastic:    Sabbia Gallery Sydney Australia

2014       Articulation: Aspects creating form:  Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2013     Contained Impressions:    Narek Galleries Tanja NSW, Australia

2011     Timelines:  Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia 

2009     Past and Present:    Narek Galleries Tanja NSW Australia

2007     Simone Fraser: recent ceramics:  Narek Galleries Tanja NSW Australia

1997     Simone Fraser Solo Show:   Fusions Gallery Brisbane Qld Australia

1998     Simone Fraser Solo show:  Mura Clay Gallery Sydney Australia

1984     Simone Fraser:    Manuka Gallery, Canberra ACT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2003 -2024

2024 Masters exhibition Clay Gulgong; Gulgong Holtermann Museum, Gulgong NSW

2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize: Finalist, Muswelbrook Regional Art Centre, NSW

2023 Siliceous award of Ceramic excellence : finalist (HC), Ipswich Art Gallery Queensland and Ceramic Arts Queensland

2023 Klytie Pate Ceramics award finalist(HC): MACE, Mansfield Vic

2023 Terra Nova: 70 year of Sturt Pottery Mittagong NSW

2023 Singular Worlds Artists collections: curated by Katherine Benz

Delmar Gallery Sydney Australia

2022 Lake Art Prize finalist 2022: Museum of Art and Culture, Lake

Macquarie NSW Australia

2022 Members Best 2022: International Academy of Ceramics Congress

Geneva, Switzerland

2021-23 Clay Dynasty: Powerhouse Museum curated by Eva Czernis-Ryl

Sydney, Australia

2021 HOTA Collects: Home of the Arts Surfers Paradise Queensland Aus.

2021 Study: Sabbia Gallery, Sydney Australia

2020 Distant Ceramics International online exhibition juror Bruce

Dehnert

2020 Online exhibition Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University Turkey

2020 The Space Within: Sabbia Gallery Sydney Australia–  curator Kylie Johnston

2019 An Idea Needing to be Made: Contemporary Ceramics: Heide Museum of Modern Melb Australia – curator Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding

2018 New Orientalia: Yingge Ceramics Museum Taiwan

2018 Sydney Contemporary: Sabbia Gallery Sydney Australia– curator Anna Grigson

2018 North Qld Biennial Ceramic Award (winner): Pinnacles Gallery Townsville QLD Australia

2018 Masters Exhibition: Clay Gulgong Int Ceramics  festival -curator Marta Donaghey NSW Australia

2017 Ceramic Revisions II May Space Gallery Sydney.-curator Brenda May

2017 Identity:Contemporary Australian Ceramics:  Skepsi Melbourne Victoria-curator Anna Maas

2017 A Prize Collection: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

2016 Artists from Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Slovenia: San Pau Barcelona Spain curators Fiona Fell and Maarten Renes

2015 Turn Turn Turn: The Studio Ceramics Tradition : National Art School, Sydney curator Glenn Barkley 

2014 The Course of Objects; the fine lines of inquiry: Manly ,Art Gallery and Museum curator Susan Ostling

2013 Vessel as Metaphor: Drill Hall Gallery ANU ACT- curator Karen O’Clery 

2013 Prima: Australia’s Finest Contemporary Artists working in Glass and Ceramics: Sabbia Gallery Sydney Aust.-curator Anna Grigson                         

2012 The 16th Shanghai Art Fair: Shanghai China

2012 3rd Shanghai International Modern Pot Art Biennial Exhibition: Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts  Shanghai China

2011 Together in Harmony: Celebrating 50 years of friendship; Korea and Australia. Travelling exhibition.  South Korea

2009 Bravura: 21st Century of Australian Craft: Art Gallery of South Australia -curator Robert Reason

2009 Link: Kongju National University and National Art School Gallery Sydney Australia curators Prof. Ro Hae Sin, Merran Esson and Katie Dyer

2008 Alan Peascod:  Influences and dialogue,    Wollongong City Art Gallery NSW Australia

2008 Salute: A salute to Australian Ceramics: Fusions Gallery Queensland:.curated by Janet Mansfield 

2007 Raw Earth, Sabbia Gallery Sydney.curated by Kylie Johnston

2004 The Hollow and the Whole: Delmar Gallery curated by Merran Esson and Ruth Howard Delmar Gallery, Sydney

2003 Ceramics: The Australian & New Zealand context: Campbelltown Regional Gallery curated by Robert Reason, 

COLLECTIONS

HOTA Gallery (Home of the Arts) QLD Australia

MAAS (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences -Powerhouse)

Yingge Ceramics Museum New Taipai City Taiwan 

Argentona Ceramics Museum  Spain 

International Modern Pot Art Museum, Yixing China 

City of Townsville Art Collection 

The Bendigo Regional Gallery Victoria 

Manly Art Gallery and Museum Sydney 

Wollongong regional Art Gallery 

The Art Gallery of Western Australia 

South Australian Regional Gallery 

National Gallery of Australia ACT 

Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery NSW 

Perc Tucker Art Gallery, Townsville QLD 

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery NSW 

Manly Art Gallery and Museum Sydney Australia

Sydney Grammar School Art Collection 

Christian Louboutin Art Collection France 

Elton John art Collection UK

Canberra School of Art ANU Canberra Australia

Qantas Art collection Australia

Australian Ceramics Association

Art Bank Collection NSW

Australian National University ACT

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Ceramics Now – 2023 review of Siliceous Award (Highly Commended) Stephanie Henricks

Garland Magazine – 2022 Simone Fraser: Re-gendering ritual editor Keven Murray

Financial Review Ceramic Artists Break the Mould 2019

Art Monthly: Collective thinking – “ An Idea Needing to be made” at Heide Museum of Modern Art – Merran Esson review/article

Christopher Allen, The Australian Weekend Review, Visual Arts:  Sound Vessels An Idea Needing To Be Made:  Contemporary Ceramics Heide Museum of Modern Art. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ 

John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum , Visual Art review Outside the Mould – A show of contemporary ceramics reveals feats of clay that transform craft into Art An Idea needing to be made:  Contemporary Ceramics at Heide Museum of Modern Art Melbourne Victoria

Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding https://www.heide.com.au/ catologue/book 2019

Sydney Grammar School Issue No. 9-2019 by Visual Arts Master Bernadette Mansfield –  Artist in Residence Simone Fraser pp18-19 

Journal of Australian Ceramics: Cover imageIssue 27/3 November 2018

Richard Morecroft, Journal of Australian Ceramics:  On Iconoplastic – pp 38/39 57/3 2018 http://www.australianceramics.com/

New Ceramics :The International Ceramics magazine -Artist Profile:  Simone Fraser -Articulation: Aspects Creating form  Timelines, and exhibition by Simone Fraser article by Merran Esson

Brett Ballard -Ceramics Art and Perception: A review: Simone Fraser  #85 pages 44-47

CFILE online 2013

John McDonald –Sydney Morning Herald:                                                                       Spectrum Review:  Timelines: solo show 2011

Nola Anderson. Craft Arts International:    Craft arts International                           #71 (October 2007) The Vessel in Context 

Alan Peascod:Ceramics: Art and Perception:                                                            Simone Fraser’s Vessel forms. No. 60 2005 pp 47-49

Ken Lockwood (Ed.): Craft Arts International Issue No 1, Portfolio #1, p48, Issue 71 pp 60-63, Issue 77 p 86

Janet Mansfield: A Collector’s Guide to Modern Australian Ceramics:, pp72, 73 & 118

Numerous published articles in Ceramics art and Perception and the Journal of Australian Ceramics

MEMBERSHIPS

International Academy of Ceramics Geneva

Australian Ceramics Association

SELECTED AWARDS,  COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES CONFERENCES ETC

2024 Master at Clay Gulgong International Ceramics festival , Teachers Day , Gulgong NSW

2024 Finalist Muwellbrook Art Award, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre NSW

2023 Finalist and Highly Commended, Siliceous award of Ceramic excellence Ipswich art Gallery and Ceramic art Queensland

2023 Finalist and Highly Commended, Klytie Pate ceramics award Mansfield Victoria

2022 Finalist in the Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture , Lake Macquarie Region Gallery NSW Australia

2019 Finalist in the Clunes Ceramic award 

2019 Sydney Grammar School residency Sydney Aust.

2018  Master at Clay Gulgong International Ceramics Festival

2018 Inducted into The International Academy of Ceramics in Taipei Delegate at The International Academy of Ceramics Congress 

2018 The cover of the Journal of Australian Ceramics 57/3 November 

2018 Finalist and WinnerCity of Townsville Art award $10,000 acquisitive award

2016 Delegate International Academy of Ceramics congress, Barcelona

2011 Invited to join, East West Ceramic Collaboration 5, University of Hawaii USA

2010 Invited by Professor Ro Hae Sin to lecture at the Kongju University ceramics department. South Korea

2009 Demonstrator at the Australian Ceramics Triennale.

1997 Comissioned by Crown Casino Melbourne (five works)

1997 Jerudong Resort Brunei (20 works commissioned by the Sultan)

1996 Qantas Art Collection (three works acquired and displayed in the Chairman’s Lounge Melbourne) 

1988 Presented a paper at the 1988 Australian Ceramic conference Sydney conference held at NSW University.

1987 North Queensland Potters Association  Award (Acquisitive)

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