Shaun Fraser

MA work

Mòine, 2017
Peat/Glass
Various | Photographer: Ewen Weatherspoon
The Ground Itself is Kind, Black Butter, 2017
Bronze
72cm x 30cm | Photographer: Ester Segarra

In many ways my work is concerned with veracities – with real elements, real soil, real experiences. The emphasis is on fundamentals, essences.

Peat has been handled and processed by people for millennia. It is used as fuel source, in years gone by it was a life source.

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My work comments upon notions of identity, links to landscape and connections with place. The Highlands and Islands are a constant source of inspiration for me. It’s where I’m from, it’s where I was brought up and it’s never far from my mind. There’s a certain sense of fidelity which I attach to the Highlands, a sense of belonging. It’s raw and it’s emotive; it’s elemental.
What I attempt to do through my practice is to tap into some of that disposition. Including peat and local soils into my glass castings gives the work an innate link to the landscape, something which I believe to be very important in my practice, the ability to evoke that sense of place.