Billy Fraser
1985 Imperial Godzilla Toho Co. ltd (Sample), Canvas, Birch Plywood, Acrylic paint, MDF, 2019
2001 An Alternative Ending, Oil on canvas, epoxy resin finish, 2019
Drop Focud Painting/Sample (Nos. 30/52, 31/52, 32/52, 33/52), 2020
Drop Focus Painting, Acrylic pigment on custom stretched canvas over board, 2020
King of the Monsters I, Imperial Godzilla 1985, epoxy resin and epoxy pigment tint, 2020
Nuclear Focus Sculpture, MDF, sand, gravel, epoxy filler, PVA, colouring, acrylic paint, spray paint, expanding foam, plaster, toner relief print, BLK3.0, finishing resin, moonstone/aerogel (Detail), 2020
Nuclear Focus Sculpture, MDF, sand, gravel, epoxy filler, PVA, colouring, acrylic paint, spray paint, expanding foam, plaster, toner relief print, BLK3.0, finishing resin, moonstone/aerogel, 2020
Sample Focus Painting, Fabric dye/acrylic pigment on custom stretched canvas over board, 2020
2020 Sample-One Small Step, (1-1 replica of the first footstep on the moon), Ply, sand, gravel, epoxy filler, PVA, water based colouring, acrylic paint _ spray paint on custom panel, 2020
Focus Painting II (Animal Focus), Acrylic, custom stretched canvas, 2020
Focus Painting V (Apollo), Ply, sand, gravel, epoxy filler, PVA, water based colouring, acrylic paint _ spray paint on custom panel, 2020
Focus Painting IV (Constellations), Oil on custom stretched canvas, within artist made steel tray frame, 2020
Trendmasters Godzilla Baby Toho Co. ltd (Sample), 1998 Kaiju Godzilla head Toho Co. ltd (Sample), 1985 Imperial Godzilla Toho Co. ltd (Sample), Canvas, Birch Plywood, Acrylic paint, MDF, 2019
Bio
Billy (b. 1995) lives and works in London, he graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2017.
Billy practice explores an extensive series of speculations executed across a variety of medium. Combining aspects of alternative art production with an interest in an expanded linear narrative Fraser creates artworks that exist on a timeline of subjective experience, encompassing the at once majestic and horrific encounters of the natural, the industrial, the technological and the nuclear. Solemnity and absurdity collide as Fraser mines the pop-cultural and socio-historical context of human achievements; just as mythical legends of power and destruction inspired artists for millennia, so the feats of human endeavor witnessed over the past century serve to stimulate contemporary concepts of might, doom and inevitable demise.
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Selected Projects
Old Friends, New Friends (Group Exhibition, co-organised with Hector Campbell) Collective Ending HQ (London, 2021, Upcoming)
And Here You Are, Holding On (Two-Person Exhibition, w. Milo Creese) Well Projects (Margate, 2020)
HOUSE §1 (Group Exhibition) Collective Ending HQ (London, 2020)
Ancient Deities (Group Exhibition) Arusha Gallery (Edinburgh,2020)
ABSINTHE §3 (Group Exhibition, co-organised with Charlie Mills & James Capper) Spit and Sawdust (London, 2019)
ABSINTHE §2 (Group Exhibition, co-organised with Charlie Mills & James Capper) Spit and Sawdust (London, 2019)
ABSINTHE §1 (Group Exhibition, co-organised with Charlie Mills & James Capper) Spit and Sawdust (London, 2019)
Studio.Us.Is an Experiment (Group Exhibition) Dyson Gallery (London, 2018)
Black Box Curatorial Project (Solo Exhibition) Black Box Space, University for the Creative Arts (Farnham, 2018)
Extended Call Pt.3 (Group Exhibition, Curator) Subsidiary Projects (London, 2018)
Extended Call, Pt.2 (Group Exhibition, Curator) The Parasite, Royal College of Art (London, 2018)
Reunion (Group Exhibition) Assembly Point Gallery (London, 2018)
(H)AKT (Group Exhibition) Tanner Street Gallery (London, 2018)
Cosmic Perspectives - Lumen Residency (Group Exhibition) Tanner Street Gallery (London, 2018)
Extended Call Pt.1 (Group Exhibition, Curator) Phone boxes in Soho (London, 2018)
ABSINTHE Prologue (Group Exhibition) James Capper’s Studio (London, 2018, also Curator)
Mutants (Group Exhibition) Lincoln Projects (London, 2017)