A selection of works
John Leslie Art Prize Finalist– Skull Rock, 91.5 x 81.5, Oil on Linen, 2024
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Bayside Art Prize Finalist, exhibited at Melbourne Art Fair, Carved Landscape #1 & 2, 138 x 112cm Oil on linen, 2022
An Unnatural Space (Cataract Gorge) II, Oil on linen
150 x 130 cm, 2023
Body and Landscape, 138 x 112 cm, Oil on linen, 2024
After the Rains II, 61 x 51 cm, Oil on linen, 2024
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Graphic Landscape (woven), 61 x 51 cm, Oil on linen, 2024
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Melbourne Art Fair 2022
Glacier Paintings- Norway, 2019
R & M McGivern Prize, 2019
A Precarious Shift, 91.5x 81.5cm, Oil on linen, 2019
Betra Fraval investigates ecological concerns by representing damaged, but often sublimely beautiful environmental sites she has journeyed to and experienced.
‘Rainbow Mountain’, Vinicunca, Peru is a geologic site of ribboned strata with cascading colours, that was recently revealed due to retreating glaciers at the mountains’ summit. This lithic wonder has increased industry and tourism in the area which, while economically beneficial, is fraught with ecological and social complications. In A Precarious Shift (2019), Fraval articulates a sense of fragility, not often associated with the geological. This is expressed through the choice and execution of medium; and the delicate, semi-transparent brush marks that reveal the raw canvas underneath. A reference to a tenuous state of solidity, the image hangs like a ghost, or a stain from a fleeting experience. She communicates ideas regarding the irreversible marks that the Anthropocene has left on the earth through her own mark making on the canvas. Her work brings to our attention to the complexities at play in such sites and illuminates a necessary rethinking of landscape and environmental sites as fragile, changeable and impermanent. It is a reminder that potentially, due to our human behavior, we are on a threshold of irreversible change, a precarious shift.
‘Rainbow Mountain’, Vinicunca, Peru is a geologic site of ribboned strata with cascading colours, that was recently revealed due to retreating glaciers at the mountains’ summit. This lithic wonder has increased industry and tourism in the area which, while economically beneficial, is fraught with ecological and social complications. In A Precarious Shift (2019), Fraval articulates a sense of fragility, not often associated with the geological. This is expressed through the choice and execution of medium; and the delicate, semi-transparent brush marks that reveal the raw canvas underneath. A reference to a tenuous state of solidity, the image hangs like a ghost, or a stain from a fleeting experience. She communicates ideas regarding the irreversible marks that the Anthropocene has left on the earth through her own mark making on the canvas. Her work brings to our attention to the complexities at play in such sites and illuminates a necessary rethinking of landscape and environmental sites as fragile, changeable and impermanent. It is a reminder that potentially, due to our human behavior, we are on a threshold of irreversible change, a precarious shift.
Moving Mountains, James Makin, 2017
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Falling into the Sky, Anna Pappas Gallery, 2015
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Linden Contemporary Art Space, 2012
Betra Fraval’s installation, The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter, presents the scene of an elegant aftermath suggesting all matter goes through cycles from destruction to transformation and regeneration. The installation incorporates tree branches, dead birds, torn paper and other fragments scattered across the walls and floor of the gallery space.
