Artworks – Hondartza Fraga

Lump

Hondartza Fraga — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:02:20 +0000

A raw fragment of Whitby jet was scanned and the image enlarged and printed onto fabric. The disproportion of scale transforms a minimal object into a softer but more ambiguous… more

Afterform

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:31:42 +0000

Geometry is the measure of all things. — Albrecht Dürer Everything that is great and intelligent has come from fragments. — Goethe A polyhedral form obtained through the slow hand-polishing… more

Tide

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:17:15 +0000

Tide is composed of 28 drawings made with Whitby jet powder deposited and fixed onto paper. The repeated gesture evokes cyclical rhythms of accumulation and withdrawal, like a tide generating… more

Miramientos

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:58:57 +0000

The eye is not a passive camera that records the world but an organ that experiences it. As such, it always distorts, invents, blurs, and bends, and our perception of… more

Saturnian

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:32:34 +0000

What the music I love expresses to me is not thought too indefinite to be put into words, but, on the contrary, too definite. – Felix Mendelssohn, Letter to Marc-Andre´… more

Solid

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:00:36 +0000

Isn’t melancholia a kind of intimacy with objects that cannot be fully grasped or understood? Doesn’t melancholia ensue as the result of interaction with such opaque things? Could the polyhedron… more

Life Size Mars

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:27:37 +0000

Life Size Mars is an ongoing series of tiny pencil drawings that reproduce sections of the Martian surface at a 1:1 scale. While we are familiar with spectacular images of… more

oOo

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:32:14 +0000

I do not know what to say with certainty in a case so strange, unlooked for and novel. The shortness of the time, the phenomenon without parallel, the weakness of… more

Saturn Head

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:27:40 +0000

For punctum is also: sting, speck, cut, little hole –and also a cast of the dice. A photograph’s punctum is that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is… more

Saturn and Melancholy

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:19:23 +0000

Any photographer will tell you that dust has a double-edged relation to the camera. It must be kept well away from the equipment but it is deeply photogenic. Floating in… more

Temperamental

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:10:05 +0000

There are lines in the landscape because every landscape is forged in movement, and because this movement leaves material traces along the manifold paths of its proceeding. To perceive these… more

Ghost

Hondartza Fraga — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 14:55:49 +0000

They [Black Paintings] are current because in the evolution of Goya’s work and its appreciation, right now they are the ones that best express our contemporaneity: fragmentation, bewilderment, insecurity, aggressiveness,… more

In Saturn’s Shadow

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:14:25 +0000

A drawing responding to the fragmented nature of astronomical images. Most of the images of space we see are complex composites of hundreds of raw images, stitched seamlessly and easily… more

Wonderful Order

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:33:23 +0000

Fossils have been long studied as great curiosities, collected with great pains, treasured with great care and at great expense, and shown and admired with as much pleasure as a… more

Incognito

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:22:49 +0000

This series pairs original drawings with their photographic reproductions. Pencil drawings render aspects of Saturn, based on the raw images from the Cassini mission. The work plays with –and exploits–… more

Figures

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:43:55 +0000

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts… more

Specimens

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:56:29 +0000

Graphite on paper, each 70 x 100, 2018-2019 Nowadays we would consider outer space to be the realm of science and astronomy, and inner-space to be the realm of fantasy… more

Archive Blues

Hondartza Fraga — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:57:50 +0000

Archive Blues was created during an artist-in-residency at Leeds Art Gallery, responding to their collection of John Sell Cotman and Sydney Kitson. Fascinated by the relationship between the original objects… more

Irresistible Distance

Hondartza Fraga — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 14:58:55 +0000

An image of stars, familiar enough. The initial effect of moving forwards through space is gradually replaced by the realisation that we are moving inwards – zooming into a still… more

Orrery

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:54:00 +0000

The map is not the territory — Alfred Korzybski, 1931 A pencil drawing of an orrery, isolated from its function and suspended between diagram and object. The work explores how… more

Arborescope

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:57:01 +0000

Work inspired by Jodrell Bank’s history, its relationship with its surrounding landscape and its significant role in the exploration of the Universe. Originally commissioned by Macclesfield Barnaby Arts Festival in… more

Pulse

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:56:19 +0000

This animation was inspired by the research carried by the team at Lovell Telescope in Jodrell Bank, constantly scanning the skies, filtering whispers from outer space, extracting the inaccessible information… more

Lovell’s Shadow

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:55:30 +0000

This digital drawing, presented as a limited edition print, was inspired by the constrats between the Lovell telescope and the bucolic English landscape that surrounds it. Much like the work… more

365 Globes

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:26:52 +0000

A work made of 365 drawings of different globes, created as one-drawing-per-day during 2015. The drawings are based on real globes seen in shops, museums, books, or the internet. The… more

Shell-ters

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:54:21 +0000

Oyster shells are transformed into tiny islands. Pencil drawings on paper that have been carefully hand-cut and fixed onto the shell’s surface creating miniature scenes that feature dwellings and people… more

Okeanos

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:53:30 +0000

Drawing, 2015 Okeanos is the figure in Greek mythology that personifies the great river encircling the world. Originally thought to represent just the bodies of salt water known to the… more

Upon a Painted Ocean

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:52:20 +0000

Animation, 2015 This work was created for an exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery in 2015, to accompany the gallery’s collection of 17th-century Dutch seascapes. I created an animation of three… more

Natural Habitat

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:49:10 +0000

Video, 2015 This work is a reflection on the museum as a â€˜naturalâ€™ habitat for history, in particular maritime history. Fully assembled whalesâ€™ skeletons are often displayed hanging from high… more

That Good Night

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:48:18 +0000

Video, 2014 “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas… more

It Turned Me to Admire the Magnanimity of the Sea Which Will Permit No Records

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:47:22 +0000

Drawing, 2013 Drawing made as part of my residency at the University of Hull. The title is a quote from Moby Dick. I liked the idea of the un-recordable sea… more

Books to Sea

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:46:34 +0000

A series of drawings made while Leverhulme Trust artist-in-residence at the University Hull. My residency responded to the whaling history of Hull from the collections and archives of the Maritime… more

Cortege

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:45:34 +0000

Work in response to a poem by Rob Hindle, for the proect ‘Scale’ by Longbarrow Press. The poem follows a real and imaginary walk across Sheffield, from Attercliffe to the… more

Passages for the World

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:44:35 +0000

Animation, 2013 From original etchings found in the Hull Maritime Museum collection.Â The original works were based in sketches made in situ and made for a book about the voyages to… more

Seaward Bound

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:43:36 +0000

At first glance, these photographs appear to offer a stripped-back seascape: a pale, featureless sky above a dark plane whose muted shimmer suggesting a distant sea. Yet the image never… more

Lines to Sea

Hondartza Fraga — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:41:20 +0000

Ink on paper, 2012Drawing based on Portolan Charts without any land or sea. The network of lines (rhumb lines) that create the compass rose is drawn as rope, evoking a… more

And Not a Voyage Complete

Hondartza Fraga — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:39:47 +0000

Video, 2012 01:55 (black & white, stereo sound) Work created for Moby Dick Big Read, curated by Philip Hoare and Angela Cockayne, in response to the Pequod’s long search for… more

Sway

Hondartza Fraga — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:38:05 +0000

Animation, 2012 Installation of 5 screens, each animation is of a different section of the human body seen in X-ray, with animals floating, flying or crawling. The animations are a… more

It was Necessary to Draw a Circle over that Uncertain and Fragile Centre

Hondartza Fraga — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:35:11 +0000

Hand-drawn animation 2012 A polar graph diagram is traced over and over again, always starting from the previous trace, transforming the original regular graph into a sinuous mesh of unordered… more

Mars was a Place

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:37:04 +0000

HD Video, 2011Video work in collaboration with Markus Lantto. A remote and unidentified landscape slowly sweeps in front of the camera while we hear the word exchange between the two… more

Annorstädes

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:33:23 +0000

Video HD, 2010 Credits: Markus Lantto (nyckelharpa) Collaboration with artist Markus Lantto (Sweden). Annorstädes means elsewhere in Swedish, a language removed from me in different levels: it is not my… more

Bearing Elsewhere

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:30:59 +0000

Video HD, 2010 Credits: Markus Lantto (nyckelharpa) This video shows footage taken by the artist from different moving transports: trains, planes, boats while travelling mostly through a snowy and distant… more

D is for Distance

Hondartza Fraga — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:50:09 +0000

A ship travels. I follow its path across the open ocean through a little window in a screen. Every minute, it updates a new image. A journey that goes to… more

Shell of Shells

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:16:43 +0000

A distant fireworks display is given sinister undertones in this low-resolution, night-vision video work. A fragmented narrative unfolds in the ambiguity between spectacle and threat. This work was commissioned by… more

Uncalibrated Melancholy

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:09:09 +0000

Animation, 2009 Series of three short animations constructed from raw images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft mission to Saturn. The work explores the relation between the power of technology and the… more

Deciduous

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:07:42 +0000

Hand-printed glass installation, 2009 This installation presents a composition of a forest by the repetition of the same image of a winter tree. The glass is printed manually so each… more