Neil Frazer's Melt exhibition runs at the Queenstown gallery until December 15, its core theme the alpine landscape and its reinvigoration in artistic terms.
In the exhibition Frazer presents the "physicality and monumentality" of the Southern Alps and the boulder-strewn water courses of alpine rivers.
The Australian-born artist has taken the often cliched, common subject of the sublimely romantic landscape and reinvigorated it by reinvestigating its relevance using abstract expressionist techniques, methods and style.
Frazer moved to New Zealand in 1965, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, in Sydney, in 2000.
Since 1984, Frazer has had 30 solo exhibitions across New Zealand and Australia and has received many awards and fellowships in both countries, including the 1992 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago.
