Nicole Clare Fraser
Nicole Clare Fraser (b. 1989) is an image maker and artist based in Cape Town. Her making is photographic in practice, looking at built structures, interior spaces and objects suggestive of human presence, absence, loneliness and impressions of tenderness. During her high school years, Nicole began working in the photographic darkroom. Here, she developed her strong regard and sensitivity toward the medium and the process of printing silver gelatin hand prints. After school, she continued to pursue her affinity for making images and studied further at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Alongside her personal practice, Nicole lectures in photography, with a particular focus on darkroom techniques and printing. She has taught photography at various secondary and tertiary institutions in Cape Town. Furthering her skill in the medium, she has completed darkroom photography and hand printing workshops with the highly regarded and master black and white printer, Dennis Da Silva, in Johannesburg. Nicole holds an MFA (2022) and BAFA (2012) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town. Her solo shows include: Making Space: Traces of Absence, Stillness and the In-Between in Public Spaces (2021) which was presented in the fulfillment of her MFA and publicly re-exhibited at Daor Contemporary in 2023, untitled (façade) (2020), a quiet place | a collection of hand-printed silver gelatin prints (2018) and Garrisons (2012). (https://nicoleclarefraser.co.za)
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