Kate Fraser

Kate Fraser is a painter and printmaker. Her art 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 which are functional rather than picturesque and are often over looked or taken for granted. She seeks to draw out the accidental poetry of the commonplace and her work could be summed up by the phrase ‘start where you are’.

Kate studied and worked in architecture for many years and has always maintained a parallel art practice, drawing and painting the world about her and enjoying the immediacy of observational drawing in the city or landscape. This practice forms the basis for her paintings and prints. In 2000 she graduated from the University of the West of England with an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking. She likes to experiment with different print methods including screenprint, Tetrapak relief and intaglio, woodcut and photopolymer. She has exhibited in a number of large mixed exhibitions, including the Royal West of England Academy and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.