Introduction
artist
Born 1984, Wellington (NZ). Lives and works in Berlin (DE). Richard Frater often begins with the fragility and complexity of life processes –creating artworks that bring visibility to the interactions between organisms and the material world. His works frequently reveal the disruptions and interruptions that humanity and the built environment have brought to these processes.
Frater graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 2006, followed by a Master of Fine Arts from Glasgow School of Art in 2012. Significant solo exhibitions include: What remains of a naturalist, Klosterruine, Berlin (2024); Off season, Kunstverein München (2023); Common Birds, Oracle, Berlin (2018); Compound series, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017) and Living Cities 2011-, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Wellington (2015). Frater’s work has also been included in international exhibitions and group presentations including: Image Ecology, c/o Berlin (2023); Im Volksgarten, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2020); Farewell Photography, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim (2017); Umwelt Inversion, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg (2016) and Let’s Destroy the Earth but Keep Humans, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich (2014). In 2020 Frater was awarded the Parehuia Artist’s Residency at McCahon House, Titirangi.
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Two juvenile kea
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Two juvenile kea
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Kea on car roof
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Migrating Plovers
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Migrating geese
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Dixon holding a Blue Tit
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Fledgling Buzzard
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Goshawk preening feathers
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Goshawk in flight maneuver
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A pair of copulating Goshawks
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Goshawk collecting twigs for the nest
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Goshawk with kill
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Goshawk and the talon’s shadow
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Goshawk perching in the canopy
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Dixon holding a Blue Tit
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Baby Goshawk captured by ringers
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Robin
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Ringer’s grip with Barn Swallow
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Ringer’s grip with Barn Swallow
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Aerial fight between two raptors
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Peregrine Falcon on TV Tower
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Invitation dilemma (juvenile Goshawk)
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Invitation dilemma (wood pigeon, Akademie der Künste, Hansaviertiel)
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Invitation dilemma (wood pigeon, Akademie der Künste, Hansaviertel)
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Invitation dilemma (wood pigeon, Akademie der Künste, Hansaviertel)
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Invitation dilemma (wood pigeon, Akademie der Künste, Hansaviertel)
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Invitation dilemma (Ibis, Heide Museum)
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Invitation dilemma (Honey buzzard)
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Invitation dilemma (Robin,Gamla Fågel Museet)
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Invitation dilemma (Robin,Gamla Fågel Museet)
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Invitation dilemma (Robin,Gamla Fågel Museet)
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Flight tunnel (reference glass; test glass)
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Stop Shell (oyster version)
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Stop Shell (live rock version)
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Stop Shell (ghost fishing version)
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whio whio
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Common Birds
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Kaka
Researcher at the Art Practice and Theory Research Center of the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Resident Curator of Boxes Art Museum
Curatorial Works: "Liu Sheng: The Co - existing Stage", Yifang Art, Shenzhen, 2025;"Liu Ke: Soaring over the Pyrenees", Saisen Art Space, Shanghai, 2024;"Gong Xuyao: INTRINSICALLY COMPLETE", Hidden Gallery, Foshan, 2024;"Gift", Hidden Gallery, Foshan, 2024;"One - way Connection: Xie Jiale's Solo Exhibition", 666 Art Center, 2023;"Aggregated Discreteness: Yin Gang's Solo Exhibition", 666 Art Center, 2023;"Concrete Painting", Box Art Museum, Shunde, 2023;"SABAKI - ING", Box Art Space, Shenzhen, 2023;"Dimensions of Co - construction: The 5th Anniversary Documentary Exhibition of Box Art Museum", Shunde Food Museum, Shunde, 2022;"Nebula Project: Overlapping of Mass Flow", La Vie, Shenzhen, 2022;"Suspended Judgment: Shen Li, Zeng Chuikuan, Zhang Shuo", Box Art Museum, Shunde, 2022;"Dual channel: Liu Chengxin and Xie Tong's Two - person Exhibition", Louvre Art Center, Guangzhou, 2022;"XX - About the experience for Her ", MIT Medical Aesthetics & Art Center, Guangzhou, 2022;"Relative Order: Wu Zhuozhao, Huang Yizhe", Box Art Museum, Shunde, 2022;"Hunting for Light: An Eight - person Group Exhibition", Louvre Art Center, Guangzhou, 2022;"Order · Reason: Gong Xuyao", Graduate Exhibition Hall of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, 2022;"Metaphysical Form: Zhang Shuo", Graduate Exhibition Hall of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, 2022;"Onlooker: Zeng Chuikuan", Graduate Exhibition Hall of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, 2022;"Threshold Space", Red Star Aesthetic Education & Life Art Community, Guangzhou, 2022;"Dong Wensheng, He Feng, Xie Ziyu: The 3", OCT Grid Space, Zhongshan, 2022;"2×6 = 12 | The 6th Anniversary Recommended Exhibition of Emerging Artists at Guan Space", Guan Space, Guangzhou, 2022;"SABAKI - ING", Guangzhou Contemporary Art Fair, Guangzhou