Jenny Fraser is an aesthete with an interest in other ways. Her family hails from Yugambeh country in South East Queensland. Her work is exhibited internationally, including ISEA 06 in San Jose and the Interactive Biennales in Mexico, and she recently received an honorable mention at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto. Because of the diverse creative mediums Jenny uses, much of her work defies categorization. More recently her work takes iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. With a laconic sense of humor she picks away at the fabric of our society, exposing contradictions, absurdities, and denial. Jenny has worked collaboratively through artist-in-residence programs and to date she has created works with the Hermann burg Potters of the Northern Territory, the Kaurna Plains School in South Australia, and the Coen Community in Cape York. She also participated in the first International Indigenous Art Residency at the Banff Art Centre in Canada, and was a NEWflames resident in the Campfire Group Studios and Raw Space Galleries Residency in Brisbane. She has also undertaken a creative fellowship to produce, other[wize], a body of work that celebrates the lives of Yugambeh family members that were moved from their traditional homelands to work on properties in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Jenny is interested in refining the art of artist/curating as an act of sovereignty and emancipation. She is a centrifuge for Aboriginal Media Arts, founding cyberTribe online Gallery in 1999 and the Blackout Collective in 2002. She was the coordinator for the new media arts component of 'Spirit & Vision' a Triennial featuring 94 Aboriginal Artists at Sammlung Essl in Vienna, and also part of the curatorial working group for conVerge - where art and science meet, the 2002 Adelaide Biennial, which was a major survey of Australian new media artworks. More recently she was the first Aboriginal Curator to present a Triennial exhibition in Australia: ‘the other APT', coinciding and responding to the lack of Indigenous involvement in the Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Triennial.

Visit Jenny's website: http://www.geocities.com/dot_ayu/index.htm