Artist's Residency, Oxford University, 2008
Peter Fraser, Oxford Project, Installation View (detail), 2008
In spring 2006, Peter Fraser was invited to take up an artists residency at Oxford University (along with Nicky Hirst, Tim Head and Annie Cattrell), as a result of a collaboration between the Ruskin School of Drawing, the Biochemistry Department and Artpoint, Oxford, an arts consultative body. Fraser was charged with making new work over two and a half years, in the midst of two adjacent Biochemistry Department buildings being demolished, and a landmark new Biochemistry building, designed by Hawkins\Brown, London, being built on that footprint.
The first phase building (of two) has now been completed and occupied, and Oxford University has recently purchased works from Fraser for permanent installation in the new building, a Diptych @ 3m x 7.2m, and 6 works, @ 1.2m x 1.5m.