DAVID FRAZER - Time Passes Together
David Frazer
Walking For Solace (Composition I) Ed: 50, (detail) 2023
Linocut 114 x 169 cm
David Frazer
Time Passes Together - wood engravings and linocut limited edition prints.
THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER - SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2024
To be officially opened by Caroline Field on Saturday 2 November 2pm.
Time Passes Together is our second solo exhibition with celebrated local artist David Frazer. He is renowned for his sophisticated printmaking, utilising age-old traditions of wood engraving, etching, lithography and also contemporary linocut methods.
David's images traverse the personal political. His works are often narrative, through pictures telling us the story of human condition. Often there is an overture to the melancholic feelings of the past, be it a broken limb falling, a pastoral paradise on the brink of destruction or that universal expression of love anxiety.
“David Frazer is a born storyteller; imparting tales of love, loss, and longing in his exquisitely rendered and finely detailed prints."
- Marguerite Brown MA ArtCur, 2019
About wood engraving
Wood engraving is an age-old relief print-making method used for creating small and highly-detailed images. It was traditionally used to illustrate books, with blocks being the same height as the letterpress characters that formed the text. It is particularly well-suited to achromatic graphic artworks, with strong contrasts (lights and darks) and areas of textured shadows.
Caroline Field
Curator, Australian Catholic University Art Collection and esteemed arts writer
Caroline Field is an Australian curator and writer specialising in twentieth century art writing and research, collection development, exhibitions, visual art projects, valuations and museum policy. She is Curator of the ACU Art Collection. Her previous positions include manager of Australian Galleries, director of the City of Horsham Regional Art Gallery, curator Deakin University Art Collection, and founding director of Stonington Stables Museum of Art and Deakin University Art Gallery. Her most recent publications include Australian Galleries, the Purves Family Business, the First Four Decades 1956- 1999, 2019 and ACU Art Collection: A new perspective, 2020 (Managing editor.), ACU Art Collection: First Impressions, 2021 (Managing editor.) and Contemporary visions: works from the ACU Art Collection, 2022 (Managing editor.). Caroline is also a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. She lives and works in Melbourne.