Jessie Fraser is a craft oriented visual artist. Fraser completed an MFA in 2019 at Alberta University of the Arts in Craft Media. She has participated in multiple residencies and exhibited work in a number of venues throughout Canada and the Uk, including group shows at Viviane Art Gallery, Stride Gallery, Mary E. Black Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Collect UK 2024.
Her practice considers how imagery, poetry and hand-woven cloth may be combined, to investigate the affective potential of woven cloth and text in site-sensitive installations.
Image, text and textiles, along with photographic and weaving processes are used as sites of intuitive and emotional investigation. Using time as both a process and a material Jessie’s practice is the process of weaving. She weaves not only with thread but also historic narratives and atmospheric feeling.
Photo by Leah Hennel