Meet Fraser Chatham
Ink, part of a series for the 2017 Urbis Designday collaboration with Paterson. These works are created by injecting ink into water.
Another image in the Ink series for 2017 Urbis Designday. The series was developed through experimenting with the material’s consistency and different ways of dispersing the ink inside a tank.
An image in the Sphere series, which is an experiment in creating the colour spectrum through light.
Another image in the Sphere series. Each image is made using a white ball and white background. The colour is produced with a combination of light altering materials called ‘gels’.
A work in the Paper series. These works were made for a solo exhibition last year. Chatham photographed pieces of paper flying through the air, which created random compositions.
A work in the Paper series. Through this series Chatham was experimenting with stripping back subject in his work and focusing on form and colour.
Car. With Chatham’s photographs of objects he tries to single out a key design feature of the product and highlight it through composition and lighting.
Interior Awards 2018 final artwork with sponsors.
Up-and-coming photographer Fraser Chatham is originally from Whangamata. Post study at the Elam School of Fine Arts, he completed the scholarship programme at Auckland’s Kingsize Studios.
His personal work often focuses on the abstract, with images that appear like renders but are in fact photographs.
Chatham designed the Interior Awards 2018 branding, responding to a brief that spoke of modern minerals with emphasis on light, texture and form.
Chatham says, “I worked with art directors Thomas Cannings and Andre Kini to develop a concept around a selection of key words involved in interior design – organic, smooth, shadow, modern, composition, sculptural.
“We wanted the image to be captivating, contemporary and abstract, but not have a reference to a specific material, time or place.”
He also created the colourful, innovative Ink series for the 2017 Urbis Designday, which was on display at Paterson’s showroom in Mount Eden. Keep an eye out for this rising star.
Check out the video below by Syrp for more on this talented creative.
