Jo Fraser

Jo Fraser
Jo Fraser
	'The Weavers', BP Portrait Travel Award 2012
Born	12 December 1986 (age 37); Edinburgh, Scotland
Education	Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Known for	Painting
Notable work	"The Weavers" series
Awards	BP Portrait Award Travel Award 2011
Website	www.jofraser.co.uk

Jo Fraser (born 12 December 1986) is a Scottish painter. She won the BP Portrait Award Travel Award 2011 in London.^[1]

Biography

Jo Fraser is an award-winning Scottish Portrait Artist, most notably winning The BP Portrait Travel Award at The BP Portrait Award exhibition 2011^[2] in London. Following her BP Travel Award win, Fraser spent two months in Peru, within an indigenous community of Quechua weavers in the small, mountainous village of Patacancha. Her work from this time was exhibited in London at The BP Portrait Award exhibition 2012.^[3]

Fraser was educated at George Watson's College and later received a first class Honours degree in BA Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

In 2011, Fraser was commissioned by Harvey Nichols for The Elephant Family charity to design and paint a sculpture^[4] for The exhibition Edinburgh Jungle City, which was displayed above the front canopy of the Edinburgh Harvey Nichols Store. She designed and executed a Faberge egg for The Big Faberge Egg Hunt 2014 in NYC, which was exhibited in Bryant Park.

Awards, bursaries and television appearances

2014 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
2012 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
2011 BP Portrait Travel Award Winner
2011 BP Portrait Award Exhibitor, National Portrait Gallery, London
2011 Artist In Residence, Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh
2010 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award 2010
2008 Ian Eadie Award, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
2008 Short-listed for The Boundary Gallery Figurative Art Prize
2006 ITV Scotland, 'A Brush With Fame: The search for Britain's best portrait painter'
2004 Senior Bursary Award in The Creative Arts, Edinburgh
2004 The Robert Paterson Prize, GWC
2003 The John Gray Memorial Prize, GWC
2002 The London Watsonian Club Prize, GWC
2001 The Robert Merson Prize, GWC

References

^ http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2011/the-exhibition/prize-winners-home.php?prize_position=5
^ http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2011/the-exhibition/prize-winners-home.php?prize_position=5
^ http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php?id=9112
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

[1] ttp://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2011/the-exhibition/prize-winners-home.php?prize_position=5

[2] ttp://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2011/the-exhibition/prize-winners-home.php?prize_position=5

[3] ttp://www.npg.org.uk/index.php?id=9112

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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