My name is Jonathan Sölanke Gathaara Fraser. I am a multidisciplinary artist working across various media as a means for paying careful (and especially caring) attention to my environment. Through various modes of working that include drawing, printmaking, observational sketching, plant pressing, digital image collection and writing, I am exploring my environment and I am keen on deepening my relationship to the world around me through a wide and varied understanding of natural materials, systems and interactions. I primarily work through drawing to generate novel relationships and interesting interactions so that “drawing” may take on a double meaning. As in “to pull in towards an axis” so as to possibly envelope amateur science, play, poetry, and outdoor exploration into an embodied artistic praxis.

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Fraser studied Fine Art at Kenyatta University. In 2021, his solo exhibition There Is A Time and A Place was held at Circle Art Gallery. He has shown in numerous group exhibitions in Nairobi including: Fictions, Circle Art Gallery, 2022; I Will See What I Want to See, Circle Art Gallery, 2019; If Not Now, Cave Bureau, 2018; Line: The Basic Element, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, 2018; Stranger Times, Circle Art Gallery, 2017; Anatomy of Me, The Art Space, 2017. Jonathan is currently in residency at 32 Degree East in Uganda till December 2023.