Shaun Fraser’s work frequently comments upon notions of identity, links to landscape and connections with place. His practice questions how the landscapes, spaces and places which we inhabit form us and can be translated through personal engagement, privileging one’s own memory as a principal source. Through this he acknowledges that memories of landscape, recalled with clarity when first encountered, can over time shift to become completely obtuse and non-linear, they become part-remembered-part-imagined places. In particular, much of his recent work has been evidence of his attempting to recall through visual means a fleeting sense of a specific place and time. With many of these works Fraser has attempted to distil his experiences of place down to their residual essences. The majority of the works displayed in this selection were developed whilst he was undertaking a residency in sub-arctic northern Iceland during the summer of 2022.
