Hondartza Fraga (Associate Artist) |

Selected Works

Courtesy the artist and The International 3

Blank Orrery

It Turned Me to Admire the Magnanimity of the Sea Which Will Permit No Records

Seaward Bound I

The Leap One

pencil on paper
100cm x 70cm
Courtesy the artist and The International 3

Mappa (Hemispheres)

Hondartza Fraga (Associate Artist)

Solo Exhibitions

2015: The Sea Full Stop, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Curio•sea•ty (two person show), East Street Arts Project Space in Leeds and South Square Gallery, Bradford.
2014: El Mar Indirecto, Espacio creativo Alexandra, Santander, Spain
2013: 2013 A Still Better Seaward Peep, Various Venues (Ferens Art Gallery, Maritime Museum, Hull History Centre, Artlink), Hull; 2013 Ese Centro Frágil e Incierto, Sala Bretón, Astillero, Cantabria, Spain
2012: That Uncertain and Fragile Centre, GreySpace Galleries, Leeds, UK
2011: Mars was a Place, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Ever Remote, Ever There, South Square Gallery, Bradford
2010: Bearing Elsewhere, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK; Either Remembered or Not Seen, LKV guest artist, Babel, Trondheim, Norway

Group Exhibitions

2015: The Whole Wide World, The International 3, Manchester
2014: The Whales of August, Wayfarers Brooklyn, New York, USA; So Far, So Awesome, The [Re]Enchantment Imperative, Fountains Abbey, Ripon; The Drawing Project, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2013: Drawings, East Street Arts Showspace, London; That Ever Increasing Distance, Supercollider, Blackpool, UK; Sampler Pop Up, East Street Arts & Test Space, New York
2012: Paisajes de Fondo, Pocagallery, Portugalete, Spain; Close to Home, Land2 and ESA, East Street Arts Leeds, UK Microcosm, Curated by Louise Ashcroft, Leeds, UK; Woolgather Art Prize 2012, Leeds, UK; Linear Progressions, SHINE, Leeds, UK
2011: Last Requests, Bloc, Sheffield, UK; Wirksworth Festival, Various Venues, Wirksworth, UK; Hydro Power, The Clocktower Gallery, Sheffield, UK; occursus presents: Paul Evans and Hondartza Fraga, DLA Piper, Sheffield, UK; Jour de Féte, The Private Space Gallery, Barcelona, Spain; Temporary Art Show 3 Part 1, Westgate Studios, Wakefield
2010: Above the Serious, The Gallery, Stoke Newington Library, London; Minutiae, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield; The Drawing Shed, PSL [Project Space Leeds], Leeds, UK; Drawn, Clock Tower Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Abbarakadabra, Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey; Experimental Travel, Art in Unusual Spaces, The Light, Leeds, UK; Hybrid, Various venues, Sheffield, UK; Instinct, The Moor, Sheffield, UK
2009: The Big Hang, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK; From one distance to another, Colar…te…Gallery, Santander, Spain; The Sheffield Pavilion 2009, The 11th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London; ZOOart 09, Art.ur Association, Cuneo, Italy; The Object of Photography, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK; Prism, The Showroom, Sheffield, UK
2008: Prism, The Showroom, Sheffield, UK; Conjunction 08 Art Festival, Airspace Gallery (and various venues), Stoke-on-Trent, UK; Lisbon Art Fair, Pente10, Lisbon, Portugal; Proyecto Bahia Común, Colar…te Gallery, Cantabria, Spain; On Your Wall Too, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds, UK; Relocating Absence, Elevator Gallery, London, UK; Host 8: Observatory, Art Sheffield 08: Yes/No/Other Options, Sheffield, UK
2007: Propuestas, Foconorte, Juan Silio, Santander, Spain; Bloc Assembly, Bloc, Sheffield; Pending, Sylvester Space, Sheffield, UK; Assembly#5, Bloc Space, Sheffield, UK
Selected Screenings: 2014 Laugharne Poetry and Film Festival, Laugharne Castle, Wales; 2012 The Everyday, curated by Victoria Lucas, Bloc Projects, Sheffield; 2012 Official Selection, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK; 2012 Tegel: Flights of Fancy, Kino Babylon Saal, Berlin; 2011 Ever Remote Screening (Touring), South Square Gallery, Bradford | Site Gallery, Sheffield | Crescent Arts, Scarborough; 2010 QUAD Gleam Festival, Various Venues, Derby, UK; 2010 Between “the other” and “the self”, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 2009 Cross-Cutting, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, UK; 2009 New:Vision Award, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2009 Aurora/Outpost, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK; 2008 Selected Works, II Digital Photography Foconorte Prize, Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo, Santander, Spain; 2007 Host 07: Home Disco, touring screening to: Consortium, Amsterdam | Colarte Gallery, Santander, Spain | Di@metro, Mexico City, Mexico | 25th edition of the International Film Festival (Festival International du Premier Film), Annonay, France

Awards

: 2015 The Tetley’s 2015 Collection. Shortlisted artist. The Tetley, Leeds; 2014 Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for the project Curio•sea•ty; A collaborative project with artist Lorna Barrowclough; 2013 The Leverhulme Trust Artist-in-Residency Grant At the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull, Hull.; 2012 Woolgather Art Prize Oficial selection.

Commissions

2015: Work ‘Upon a Painted Ocean’ , collection of Manchester Art Gallery
2014: New work for Laugharne Poetry and Film Festival, commissioned by Chapter Arts Centre, Paul Evans and Longbarrow Press
2013: Doiligraph, commissioned by East Street Arts for the Leeds International Artist Book Fair.
2009: Sheffield Pavilion 09, New work commissioned by SCAF (Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum), Sheffield; Deciduous, work acquired by The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
2008: Conjunction 08, New work for Conjunction 08 Contemporary Art Festival, Stoke-on-Trent

Collections

: The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds; Manchester Art Gallery; Private collection UK

Other Projects: 2014-15 Curioseaty, research and exhibition, collaboration with Lorna Barrowclough; 2013 Seaward Bound, La Caverna de la Luz, Santander, Spain; 2010 Steeling Skies, By Rednile in Concord Park, Sheffield, UK; 2008 Outcasting, online screening venue by Michael Cousin : www.outcasting.org; 2008 Host 8: Observatory, selected by Host Artist Group to participate in their project for Art Sheffield 08: Yes/No/Other Options; 2007 DVD and Touring Screening: Host 7: Home Disco, selected by Host Artist Group; 2007 Publication: Sheffield Pavilion project publication, selected by Host Artist Group, Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, launch in Venice Biennal and Kassel Documenta.