Installation

Bottom

"Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the... More

Painting

Conduction

"Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the... More

Painting

Drive

"the first day of spring, she's unearthed like a perennial, alive like Lazarus, electric & receptive, flush of fog on her lips, i'm lost in it. liquid darkness swallows her car as we drive through space, it's her and I alone, God looks through the... More

Painting

La Bianca

"Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the... More

Painting

Precipice

I don't want the melancholy of love-lost anymore. I want futurity, conviction, pain only when necessary and not in large doses. I want to get older, I want to be an old woman, I want a daughter. No more of this wilfully accepted loneliness - I... More

Painting

Ruminations

A mirror stares at a mirror and the mirror stares back. Throughout this conversation are endless versions of a room extending into a room extending into a room. When I stand between them this conversation shifts to reveal my body in all its... More

Painting

Say it plainly, or say it again

For Éama. My pocket change is scattered on the table with all the Negronis I drank for the two of us. Liquid red contrasts the shutter green that closed me inside my room with you. We invented our own language with symbols for the ritual of our... More

Installation

Tender

"Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the... More

Drawing

The Mend

This is a matrilineal history. It is a diaristic recollection of connections that move with the same transience as the material. The abstraction, directly transposed from the pattern on my great grandmother’s blanket: a combination of several... More

Drawing

The Party

"Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the... More

Painting

The Settling

"Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the... More

Painting

The Soap

I think deeply about the relationship we're in and how our dynamic shifts around our individuality. I think about where he's going to be in 4 years, where I'll be in 4 months. He has such a sense of permanence in his life that I find reassuring. ... More

Other

The Tether

"Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the... More

Work by

Ariana Fraser

Interdisciplinary Drawing and Painting

“Set within the dwellings that make tangible the ephemeral qualities of intimacy, my work references personal reflections on desire and moments of belonging/non-belonging. Oscillating between a...” [More]