Leah Fraser

Born 1983, Sydney, Australia

Lives & Works – Sydney (Eora)

Leah Fraser's work often serves as a portal to other worlds, dimensions unseen but felt and lived through collective subconscious experience. Working in painting and ceramics, Fraser creates visual threads between what defines the human and spiritual existence as well as the ever flowing vitality of nature. Themes of transformation and metamorphosis reoccur in her work, with celestial, enchanting figures appearing across the canvas in a constant state of movement and flux. Favouring a jewel-like colour palette, Fraser uses elongated fingers, hands, eyes and limbs to create interconnection between the worlds she creates and our own, conveying the fluidity of existence, transcending the work into one of the ethereal and sublime.

After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Fraser was granted an Art Production Residency in Arquetopia, Puebla Mexico (2012) and has regularly exhibited throughout Australia in solo and group shows. The artist has also been a finalist in a number of awards, including the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Award (2024), the Blake Art Prize (2014, 2009), Moreton Bay Art Prize (2016), Kings Art Prize (2019) and the Portia Geach Memorial Award (2017).