I am delighted to be taking part in Sensuality in Stone at the J/M Gallery in Notting Hill’s Portobello Road alongside Aly Brown, Kim Francis and Ana Ruiz Agüí from 19-24th September. Aly, Kim and Ana are old friends and colleagues from various shows but particularly from on form, Europe’s most prestigious stone-only sculpture exhibition held bi-annually at Asthall Manor in The Cotswolds.
Mel Fraser MRSS creates contemporary stone sculpture. She has worked from a variety of studios in and around Cambridge since the mid nineties. She is equally at home working on abstract or figurative pieces and her work has been shown at numerous art fairs around Europe and New York, The Chelsea Flower Show, Marks Hall, Doddington and at on form, the UK’s most prestigious sculpture exhibition devoted solely to stone.
Mel has worked in Carrara and Pietrasanta in Italy, at the quarries and stone yards in Kilkenny, Ireland and has a long collaboration with members of the Shona tribe from Zimbabwe.
Her stunning contemporary stone carvings are held by collectors all over the world and a recent commission saw her work installed in Frank Gehry’s Opus Building in Hong Kong.
In December 2015 she finished working on a larger than life-sized piece of 3 figures in Kilkenny limestone for one of the UK’s largest trade unions, the GMB.
Mel has been a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2017.
To find out more about more about Mel please visit The Words page and to start viewing her stunning contemporary stone sculptures go to The Work.
To plan a visit to her studio please have a look at The Studio section of the web site.
Mel is happy to consider commissions. To get in touch please go to the Contact page
Photogragh by Ros Fraser
In 2024 Mel will be exhibiting at the London Art Fair in Islington from January 16-21st with Gallery Different, at Art at the Park, Braxted Park, Essex, 2-4th February, at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea Park March 6-10th with fresh out of the box Kingsford Gallery, at Delamore Arts in Devon throughout the month of May, at Moncrieff-Bray in Petworth, Sussex from May 3rd to June 15th, at the Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, 8-12th May.
Mel will be opening her studio during the month of July as part of Cambridge Open Studios.
Mel is also exhibiting at the J/M Gallery in Notting Hill’s Portobello Road alongside Aly Brown, Kim Francis and Ana Ruiz Agüí. Sensuality in Stone runs from 19-24th September.
To discuss availability of pieces, prices, commissions or a visit to the studio, copy and paste melfraser.sculpture@gmail.com into your email programme. Mel’s studio is 6 miles east of Cambridge and can be visited by appointment.
‘Stone has its own life. Mel, with her exceptional talent and passion, lights the magic within, giving it the glory and soul.’
Angie, Hanoi Art House.
Image by Stefanie Reichelt
Words and photography by Johny Love unless otherwise credited. Web site by Webstar Deluxe.
