Jenny Fraser

Jenny Fraser works within a fluid screen-based practice of bold and confronting image making that utilises popular cultural references as a bridge to challenge viewer's frames of reference. She is a celebrated screen artist, being awarded an honourable mention at the 2007 imagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; in 2009, was nominated for a Deadly Award, and received an Australia Council fellowship for her project 'Midden' in 2012. Jenny has also refined the art of curating for the screen through a strong commitment to collaboration with others and she founded cyberTribe online gallery in 1999, and the Blackout Collective in 2002. In 2014 she presented SOLID Screen Festival and Retreat at Innot Hot Springs in Far North Queensland, which included the SOLID Screen Awards which recognised 40 years of International Indigenous Womens contributions to their screen artforms. Jenny has a professional background in Art and Media Education and has since completed a Master of Indigenous Wellbeing at Southern Cross University in Lismore, NSW; and has a PhD in the Art of Healing and Decolonisation from Batchelor Institute in the Northern Territory. She is an Associate Member of the Centre for Creative Arts at Latrobe University and in 2015 Jenny was appointed as an Adjunct Research Fellow at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, in Queensland, Australia.