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Artist
¤ Carol Fraser

Date of Work
¤ c. 1970

Accession Year
¤ 1974

Accession Number
¤ 1974.2.4

Location
¤ In storage

Media
¤ Drawing



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Carol Fraser
Various Drawings

Carol Fraser Various Drawings
Carol Fraser Various Drawings
Carol Fraser, Various drawings 1962-82 (pictured: South of France c. 1970, 1974.2.4)

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Carol Fraser
(b. 1930, Superior, WI; d. 1991, Halifax, NS)

Various drawings 1962-82 (pictured: South of France c. 1970, 1974.2.4)
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1974.2.1-8, 1975.8, 1983.1, 1988.5

Carol Fraser was a key figure in the Halifax art community during the thirty years she lived here. Having studied biology and chemistry before completing her art education, Fraser explored ecological themes in her saturated paintings. Her experience as a medical illustrator provided her with detailed knowledge of human anatomy, and the skills to render it intelligibly. By combining anatomical with botanical imagery Fraser created surrealistic compositions that transcend any organism known to science, yet maintain the illusion of structural function.

Rich in imagery and metaphor, the vividly coloured Ambivalence explores the connection between humans, nature, biology and spirit. “I am always discovering the complicated relationships that organic things share with each other...All the parts of nature, including ourselves, not only need each other, they are part of each other.@ This theme appears again in The Solipsist, which fuses landscape and human form; creating a living organism that encompasses all we see. By presenting the self as nature, and nature as human, Fraser explores the concept of solipsism, “the view that the self is all that exists or can be known” (Oxford English Dictionary).

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