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Jacqueline Fraser
Works by Jacqueline Fraser in the Chartwell Collection
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Untitled, 1989, plastic and electric wire
During the 1980s, Fraser's work drew on the Maori tradition of braiding, weaving, and plaiting of many different types of fibres, largely artificial, to create fluid, flimsy yet complex and intricate installations.
E Rua Ngaa Taniwha, 1993, electric wire and raffia cord. This work featured in the 1999 Home and Away Chartwell exhibition.
As Gregory Burke describes in the exhibition catalogue for Home and Away, these works were originally part of an installation by Fraser made for Cadran Solaire, Chapelle de l'Hotel Dieux, in Troyes, France. The artist was undertaking an artist's residency in France, and these are the first directly figurative Maori forms exhibited by Fraser. "According to the artist, part of her motivation was the desire of her French audience to know something about where she came from - in effect to locate her" (Gregory Burke, Home and Away, 1999). They also represent a meeting point between this and a European cultural symbolism of a heraldic and catholic past. "...a meeting point between the myths and memories of two cultures," writes Burke.
The Annunciation of The Lord's River, 1997, plastic coated electrical wire, lace. This work featured in the 2003 Chartwell Exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery, Nine Lives.
