Karina Fraser

Karina Fraser is an abstract artist & mental wellbeing champion based in Hampshire, England.

Mountains and travel are a passion whilst her synaesthesia provides a colourful lightshow to the music she hears. Connecting and disconnecting physical and psychological boundaries, these ideas are abstracted into layers; worked together, washed over, to create the calming, joyful and often playful works of art she has become known for.

Graduating from Camberwell College of Arts, London in 2004, Karina has since worked as a freelance artist and curator, exhibiting both at home in the UK and internationally whilst working by commission. Most recently Karina has returned from a month long trip to Nepal where she trekked well over 100 miles through the Annapurnas, at altitudes of up to 5500m, creating artwork for those that crowdfunded the trip at the same time being the foil for continued recovery from severe anxiety disorders.

BA(Hons) Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London 2004

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019 #WE4REHERE arts fest, Aldershot

Colour exhibition & live art show, Hampshire

2016 Inspiringly Titled, West End Centre, Aldershot

Summer Exhibition, Art Yard, Cradley Heath

2015 Open Exhibition, West End Centre, Aldershot

Big Draw Live Event, The Boileroom, Guildford

2014 Strummercamp Artshow, Manchester

ArtCrasher Live Show, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco



MEMBERSHIPS & AWARDS

2016 Rushmoor Arts Hub, UK

2000 Millennium Commission Fellow



TEACHING

2000-present Sessional Workshop Leader, West End Centre, Aldershot

2017 Workshop Leader, The Vine Drop-In Day Centre, Aldershot

2016 1-to-1 Work Experience Mentor, Farnham 6th Form College

2016 Workshop Leader, Royal College of Music, London

2015 Workshop Leader, Disability Initiative, Camberley

2013 Workshop Leader & Project Manager, Beyond Horizons, Rushmoor



CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 Colour exhibition and live art & music show, Hampshire

2016 Inspiringly Titled exhibition, West End Centre, Aldershot

2006 Art of Modern Nois...