Artist Bio
There are memories in the landscape, marks left in the stone that bear testimony to an unknown and ancient past. Monumental rock forms are made by slow, shifting movements and to look at these forms is to glimpse the vastness of time. The landscape also leaves indelible marks upon us. We carry the memories of certain places around with us, monuments of our own personal timelines. It is this profound, yet simple link between landscape and memory that Betra Fraval draws upon in her paintings: the marks we leave on the landscape and the ones it leaves upon us.
Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne Australia in 2014, Fraval was the recipient of the annual Galloway Lawson Prize for Excellence; Tolarno Art Prize; The Maude Glover Flea Award; and The Seventh Gallery Exhibition Grant (Making Space ARI Festival 2007). In 2019 Fraval was shortlisted for the R&M McGivern Prize. In 2018 she was awarded the Sachaqa Centro de Arte Artists’ Residency, Peru and the BigCi Artists’ Residency, Blue Mountains. She was shortlisted for the Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship in 2009 and received a residency at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India. Selected solo exhibitions include: Wanderer (2019), James Makin Gallery, Melbourne; Moving Mountains (2017), James Makin Gallery, Melbourne; Falling into the Sky (2015), Anna Pappas Gallery; The Rope Doesn’t Hang... The Earth Pulls (2015), Five Walls, Melbourne; Still Remains (2013), c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne; The Dead Trees Gives No Shelter (2012), Linden New Art, Melbourne; Unstable Ground (2008), Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne. Selected group exhibitions include Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, James Makin Gallery; Stratum (2016), c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne; Expanded Gaze (2016), Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne; McClelland Sculpture Prize (2014) ,McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin; Disappear, (201), Kings ARI, Melbourne; A4 Art, 2011 West Space, Melbourne and Forged, 2010, Trocadero Gallery, Melbourne.
Betra Fraval is represented by James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
There are memories in the landscape, marks left in the stone that bear testimony to an unknown and ancient past. Monumental rock forms are made by slow, shifting movements and to look at these forms is to glimpse the vastness of time. The landscape also leaves indelible marks upon us. We carry the memories of certain places around with us, monuments of our own personal timelines. It is this profound, yet simple link between landscape and memory that Betra Fraval draws upon in her paintings: the marks we leave on the landscape and the ones it leaves upon us.
Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne Australia in 2014, Fraval was the recipient of the annual Galloway Lawson Prize for Excellence; Tolarno Art Prize; The Maude Glover Flea Award; and The Seventh Gallery Exhibition Grant (Making Space ARI Festival 2007). In 2019 Fraval was shortlisted for the R&M McGivern Prize. In 2018 she was awarded the Sachaqa Centro de Arte Artists’ Residency, Peru and the BigCi Artists’ Residency, Blue Mountains. She was shortlisted for the Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship in 2009 and received a residency at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India. Selected solo exhibitions include: Wanderer (2019), James Makin Gallery, Melbourne; Moving Mountains (2017), James Makin Gallery, Melbourne; Falling into the Sky (2015), Anna Pappas Gallery; The Rope Doesn’t Hang... The Earth Pulls (2015), Five Walls, Melbourne; Still Remains (2013), c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne; The Dead Trees Gives No Shelter (2012), Linden New Art, Melbourne; Unstable Ground (2008), Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne. Selected group exhibitions include Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, James Makin Gallery; Stratum (2016), c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne; Expanded Gaze (2016), Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne; McClelland Sculpture Prize (2014) ,McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin; Disappear, (201), Kings ARI, Melbourne; A4 Art, 2011 West Space, Melbourne and Forged, 2010, Trocadero Gallery, Melbourne.
Betra Fraval is represented by James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.