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 -2023
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)
Garland Magazine – 2022 Simone Fraser: Re-gendering ritual
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 image – Issue 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
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
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 Winner -City of Townsville Art award-won the $10,000 acquisitive
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)