Linda R Fraser - Origins

Linda hails from Cranston, R.I. a suburb of Providence. Immediately after completing high school she attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) originally to study graphic design. She settled into the Sculpture Department where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1980. Upon graduating she proceeded to complete abstract cement projects in conjunction with another artist and former professor Arnold Prince, as well as various private commissions. Linda established a small graphic design business. Her continual curiousity for a further vocabulary in materials in which to make sculptures precipitated her enrollment in 1985 in courses at Pilchuck Glass School in Pilchuck, north of Seattle WA. Upon arriving at Pilchuck, Linda was totally seduced by glass as a medium. She pursued employment in the Seattle area and secured employment in the then new studio of Benjamin Moore. Here she remained for over a year until meeting an Australian architect at Pilchuck and marrying in 1986. A new chapter opened as Linda moved to Sydney, Australia to establish a home, a new family and new career.

Over 15 years Linda has interacted with the glass community in Sydney including a period as president of Ausglass where Linda helped to bring members of the international glass community to Australia. She has developed close ties with a number of glass artists and students and has also taught courses at a local university. During this period she continued developing her use of sandcasting to produce and exhibit glass sculpture. Residing in Leichhardt, a suburb of Sydney, Linda maintained a small studio to design and fabricate templates for new glass sculpture. She also continued to create drawings, collages and cement works and in 2001 branched out to produce a feature film Enemies Closer. More recently Linda has collaborated with artists such as Pamela Stadus and Carmel Mollison to produce a series of work at the Pratt Institute in Seattle WA.

In September 2004 Linda moved to a new studio in Toronto, Canada and produced work ranging from sandcast glass to collage. Linda's latest sandcast glass sculpture series is currently available from a number of cities including Toronto, ON (Sandra Ainsley Gallery), St Louis, MO (Barucci Gallery), Scottsdale, AZ (Pinnacle Gallery), Dallas, TX (Kittrell/Riffkin Gallery), Pacific City, OR (Pacific City Gallery) and in Newark OH at The Works Gallery.

Linda has also launched a new design website to feature her collages, giclee prints and collage merchandise and sandcast glass suited for interior design features. This work can be found here at www.lindafraserdesign.com. In April 2006 Linda returned to Australia to establish a studio in Melbourne.