It’s entitled All at Sea, which is also the title of a book he’s produced with photographer Craig Potton after they visited Wharariki Beach, south of Farewell Spit, and Punakaiki.
Known for his thick impasto technique, Sydney-based Frazer’s focused on the constantly-changing character of our seas where they touch the land.
"I was an abstract painter for 25 years before I started painting figuratively, so the paintings have a kind of an energy and a physicality you don’t usually associate with landscape painting," he says.
"The way I paint it’s quite gestural, quite physical.
"Coming into this period where we’re going to be so assaulted by AI and everything, I think the actual three-dimensional quality of the paintings becomes a little bit more pertinent."
Frazer, one of whose ancestors, he says, owned half the main street of Dunedin, recalls when he was a Frances Hodgkins Fellow at Otago Uni in ’92, artist Ralph Hotere introduced him to Central Otago pinot noir.
"My partner [artist Joanna Braithwaite] and I have been drinking Central pinots ever since then, when we can afford it."
His Queenstown exhibition runs till November 10.
