
Jonathan Sölanke Gathaara
Fraser’s practice is an ode to curiosity, to care and to
paying close attention to the world around him. For the
last 5 years, he has been using drawing, and more
recently sound and installation, as a kind of auxiliary
sense with which to observe and record his environment.
For his second solo at Circle, the artist invites us to
share in the experience of paying close and careful
attention, stepping into observation through embodiment;
a departure from the usual intellectualisation of our
experiences of artwork and the world around us. Fraser
has extensively exhibited in group shows in Nairobi,
most recently 2025’s Notes on Friendship: Breaking Bread,
a group show organised jointly by the Nairobi
Contemporary Arts Institute (NCAI, Kenya) and Savannah
Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale (SCCA, Ghana). In
2021, his first solo exhibition, There Is A Time and A
Place, was held at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi. He
studied Fine Art at Kenyatta University, and counts his
experiences |