RESUME

Linda R. Fraser
Sculptor and Artist

EDUCATION:

1980 B.F.A.-Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., U.S.A.

Teachning EXPERIENCE:

1995 Instructor, Sandcast Glass Workshop
Sydney College of the Arts, Glass Department

1991 Instructor, Sandcast Glass Workshop
Sydney College of the Arts, Glass Department

1990 Teaching Assistant, at Pilchuck Glass Centre, U.S.A.
Sandcast Glass & Mould-blowing Instructor: Bob Carlson

1989 Student, Pilchuck Glass Centre, U.S.A.
Cast Glass Instructors: Bob Carlson & Bertil Vallien

1988 Assistant to the Artist, Richard Goodwin, sculptor, Sydney
Finishing & polishing concrete relief castings

1986 Staff member, Pilchuck Glass Centre, U.S.A.

1985 Assistant to the Artist in Residence, Bertil Vallien
Pilchuck Glass Centre, U.S.A.
Student Hot Glass Instructors:
Amy Roberts, Sonja Blomdahl & Jan Erik Ritzman
Cast Glass Instructor: Clifford Rainey

1984 Instructor of Sculpture Class at the Providence Art Club, U.S.A.
Stone Carving & Direct Cement techniques

1980-81 Assistant to the Artist in Residence, Arnold Prince
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
Execution of various wood & concrete sculptures.

1980 Teaching Assistant, Professional Practices Course,
Rhode Island School of Design, U.S.A.
Instructor: Professor Dale Chihuly

PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS:

1998- present Member of G.A.S., Glass Artists Society International

1994-98 Member of Ausglass, Australian Association of Glass Artists

1995 President of Ausglass

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, RI
National Glass Collection, Australia
Civic Collection, Wagga City Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia
Australia *(donated by ABN-AMRO Bank, Sydney)

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Examples of my work are in private collections in:
East Greenwich & Providence, RI.,
Williamstown, Ma., Santa Paula, Ca.,
New York, N.Y., Hernando, Fl., Seattle, Wa.
Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa & Windsor, On Canada,
Sydney NSW & Brisbane QLD, Australia,
Afors, Sweden

COMMISSIONS:

2004 Dancing Woman Project, Radical Media, Sydney, N.S.W.

1995 Sandcast Glass Wall Pieces, The Third Restaurant, Newtown, N.S.W.

1995 Sandcast Glass Sculpture, ABN/Amro Bank, 10 Spring Street, Sydney

2 life-size sandcast figures with steel, representing a miner & farmer*

1994 Sandcast Glass Sculpture, Private Residence, Williamstown, Ma., U.S.A.

1993 Sandcast Glass Sculpture, Private Residence, Hernando, Fl., U.S.A.

Sandcast Glass window/wall, Private Residence, Sydney

1992 Sandcast Glass window/wall, Private Residence, Sydney

1981 Constructed a large playground installation

Summer Youth Employment Program, R.I., U.S.A.

1980 Abstract concrete sculpture, Storefront landscape R.I., U.S.A.

Abstract concrete sculpture, Private Residence R.I., U.S.A.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

March 2006 The Works Newark, Ohio
Invitational Group Exhibition

October 2004 Global Art Venue Seattle, USA
"From Pole to Pole" invitational group exhibition

November 2002 Woods Gerry Galery R.I.S.D., USA
"RISD First Triennieal Sculpture Exhibition" invitational group exhibition

April 1999 Nowra Galleries, Nowra, NSW
"Light and Colour" Two person invitational exhibition

July 1995 Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne
"Glass in Australia 1995", Juried exhibition

May 1995 The Glass Artist's Gallery, Sydney
"Not Just One of a Kind" invitational group exhibition

April 1995 The Glass Artist's Gallery, Sydney
"Australian Studio Glass" to coincide / book launch, invitational

January 1995 The Glass Artist's Gallery, Sydney
"Australian Glass" : A Recent View group exhibition

June 1993 The Bare Gallery, Newtown, N.S.W.
"One Woman Show" sandcast glass & collages

September 1991 Woods Gerry Gallery, R.I.S.D., U.S.A.
"12 x 12 Alumni Show" sandcast glass sculpture - juried

August 1990 The Pilchuck Glass Centre Gallery, U.S.A.
"Instructors & Teaching Assistants Show" sandcast glass sculpture

June 1985 The Providence Art Club, R.I., U.S.A.
"Phases of the Moon & Selected Collages" concrete sculptures & collages

The Linda R Fraser Design Studio
"Studio 3A"
3 Essex Street
Footscray , VIC 3011
Australia
Phone: 61 3 8307 0398 or 61 406 735 579
Email: linda@lindafraserdesign.com

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