About Pernille Fraser

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Artist Statement

Artist Statement


Pernille’s practice sits between place and system, in the realm of sensory experience, running a Neurodivergent sensory based arts practice.  Harvesting from interactions with both internal and external space(s). Resisting over definition in order to gain space and movement. Her practice has elongated significantly over the last number of years, adopting a different pace, gaining richer insights, moving more intensely in to research mode. Various threads of research growing in to streams which currently centre upon the concept, of what Pernille terms, ‘self-space’. Translating the experience of shared space(s) per education and work environments from a neurodivergent perspective. Researching the pressures which surround us - attempting to translate the peripheral visceral feelings and their affects/effects experienced on a day to day basis.

Working project to project, on a multi-discipline basis. Investigating peripheral gaze, movement and the glances and glimmers of life, those facets which often go unseen.

'Ask most people and they will state we have 5 senses.  Ask a Neuroscientist how many senses we have they will say we have 22 or more'.  PF

Her works are held in both public and private collections in the UK, Denmark, Canada and Austria.

Education

MFA: Master in Fine Art: Painting and Drawing
PGD: Post Graduate Diploma: Painting and Drawing
CTLLS: City and Guilds: Certificate to Teach in Life Long Learning
PTLLS: City and Guilds: Preparing to Teach in Life Long Learning
Masters: MA: Marketing and Management for Designers
Degree: BSc (Hons): Textile Design

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2023 - National Brain Appeal, 10th Anniversary exhibition, London 
2021 - Extreme Imagination Exhibition. Extreme Imagination Virtual Conference 2021. Exeter UK, Toronto, Canada 
2020 - An Installed Open House, an alternative open house, organised by Partial Facsimile, Brighton, UK
2018 - Flow Observatorium manifesto launch, Portsmouth, UK
2017 - Collective@ Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere, UK (www.facebook.com/collectiveat)
2017 - Midsummer Madness, Shoreditch, London, UK
2017 - The GAA’s Oxford International Art Fair (OIAF), Oxford Town Hall, Oxford, UK
2016 - The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK
2016 - A letter in mind, The Oxo Tower, London, UK
2016 - Printmakers Exhibition, The Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester, UK
2016 - Works on paper, Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK
2016 - New Things, Next Gallery, Piacenza, Italy
2015 - Winter Salon, Leyden Gallery, London, UK
2015 - Platform for Emerging Arts #8, Leyden Gallery, London, UK
2015 - The Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition 2015, Zeitgeist Art Projects, London, UK
2015 - The Other Art Fair, London, UK
2015 - Printmakers Exhibition, Chichester, UK
2014 - Collective, Jerwood Gridshell Space, Weald Downland Open air Museum , UK
2014 - Thirteen, Embassy Tea Rooms, London, UK
2014 - Thirteen, West Dean College, West Dean, UK
2014 - 2015 – West Dean House, Selected Exhibition, West Dean UK
2014 - Line and Form- West Dean College, West Dean, UK
2014 - Printmakers Exhibition, Chichester, UK
2013 - End of year Show, West Dean College, West Dean, UK
2013 - Free Range, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2013 - Line and Form- West Dean College, UK
2012 - Open Exhibition, The Upstairs Gallery, West Wycombe, UK
2012 - Autumn Exhibition, The Upstairs Gallery, West Wycombe, UK
2011 - The Grape House Painters, The Grape House Gallery, West Wycombe, UK
2011 - June Exhibition – The Grape House Painters, The Grape House Gallery, West Wycombe, UK
2009 - Collect in the Country, The Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2012 - Gallery Visby, LØnstrup, Denmark

Hiatus / project work

2018 - Studio move | Studio build | volunteer project per Brighton University student Inclusive MA practice query: 'How should we interpret and curate the history of labelling people with learning difficulties (Neurodiversity)?'. Free space project, Wellcome Collection, London, UK

Public Collections

Aalborg Municipality Art Association (Aalborg kommunes kunstforening), Denmark [2012]

Additional Roles

2020 - Visual Arts Editor, Ought:  The Journal of Autistic Culture
2020 - 2021 Mentor,  Assert Brighton & Hove 

Curator

2014 - Collective, Jerwood Gridshell Space, Weald Downland Open air Museum

Grants and Awards

ITAKOM 2023 (It Takes All Kinds of Minds) (Attendance Grant)
Artslant Showcase Winner 2015

The Coats Foundation
The Eaton Fund
The Edward James Foundation
The Fleming Trust

Publications

2023 - Ought:The Journal of Autistic culture Volume 5. 1st edition publication
2023 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture Volume 4. 2nd edition publication
2022 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture Volume 4. 1st edition publication 
2022 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture Volume 3. 2nd edition publication
2021 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture Volume 3. 1st edition publication 
2021 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture Volume 2. 2nd edition publication
2020 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture  Volume 2. 1st edition publication [Including front cover] 
2020 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture  Volume 1. 2nd edition publication
2019 - Ought: The Journal of Autistic culture  Volume 1. 1st edition publication