Widely recognised for her contemporary interpretation of traditional Indian miniature painting, Fraser apprenticed with master painters in Rajasthan and continues to work with 17th century techniques and stone-ground pigments.
Her luminous geometric compositions draw from Tantric philosophy and sacred geometry while engaging with the history of 20th century geometric abstraction in Europe and the United States. The works create a contemplative visual language grounded in precision, symmetry, and repetition.
The exhibition is accompanied by a site-responsive soundscape by sound artist Jason Singh. Using biosonification, Singh translates the electrical impulses of plants, trees, and fungi into melodic compositions, acknowledging the pioneering research of Jagadish Chandra Bose on plant sensitivity. Blending these botanical frequencies with field recordings from sacred sites across India, Japan, and the United Kingdom, the soundscape expands the exhibition into an immersive sensory experience.
About the artist
Olivia Fraser (b. 1965, London) is a Delhi-based artist whose paintings weave intricate pattern, ancient iconography and contemplative philosophy. Trained in modern languages at the University of Oxford and later at Wimbledon College of Arts, she moved to India in the early 1990s. Encountering Indian miniature painting at the National Museum, New Delhi, she was captivated by its two-dimensional form, jewel-like colour and burnished surfaces. In 2005, she undertook traditional training in gurukuls in Jaipur and New Delhi, studying under master miniaturists.
Fraser fuses miniature techniques with modern Western abstraction, drawing on the archetypal geometry of Kazimir Malevich and the Suprematists, and the optical rhythms of Bridget Riley and Sol LeWitt. Influenced by nineteenth-century Jodhpuri Nath yogi imagery, her work reflects a meditative, Tantric vision, distilling trees, rivers, mountains and the sahasrara (thousand-petalled lotus) into elemental forms.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Drawing School, London, the 56th Venice Biennale (Frontiers Reimagined, 2015), and major institutions across India and Europe. She is also the author of A Journey Within (2019) and illustrator of several acclaimed books.
On view from 26 Feb to 25 March | 10am – 5 pm | Monday to Sunday