David Frazer's wide range of mediums shows us the diversity of his skills in translating images of the Australian outback through his exploration of visual storytelling. Having grown up on the land, David knows the flatness of the earth, the harshness of a dry landscape and the beauty of isolated hills and farm buildings. With characteristic imagination and wit, Frazer depicts isolation and rural decline in his finely detailed wood engravings and lithographs. Images of abandonment, alienation and longing are invested with ambiguity, optimism and wry humour. Typical rural objects and funny, sad characters are detailed as in a John Steinbeck novel; dreams of a rural utopia faded through the hardships of isolation and weather. To quote Martin Flanagan; “...perhaps the clue to David Frazer's art is the figure that occasionally appears on the roofs of his houses, arms spread, imitating flight, wanting to leave a landscape he is nonetheless planted in...”.

Born in Victoria, David Frazer graduated in 1996 from the Monash University with an Honours Degree in Fine Art specialising in Printmaking and, in 2000, gained his Master of Arts. In 2002, David was award the Keith Wingrove Bookplate Design Award and, in 2007, was one of the major prize winners at the International Print Biennale in Guanlan, China and runner-up in the Burnie Print Prize. David features in an episode of a new ABC TV series entitled "Artist at Work", first screened in August 2007. His works are represented widely across Australia and overseas including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, State Library of Victoria and the Print Council of Australia.