‘Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.’
Michelangelo
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
Mel Fraser with two Grand Evolutions carved from a single boulder of alabaster,
commissioned by a hotel in Beijing.
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 a brand new gallery, at Delamore Arts in Devon throughout the month of May.
Mel will be opening her studio during the month of July as part of Cambridge Open Studios.
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
Mel’s work on Angie and Will’s Hanoi Art House stand at the New York Affordable Art Fair, April 2017
Words and photography by Johny Love unless otherwise credited. Web site by Webstar Deluxe.
