Hondartza Fraga

Holding the Middle – Residency at Everybody Arts

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:07:48 +0000

Part open studio and part exhibition, Holding the Middle brings together a large body of mostly unseen works developed over the past three years. Emerging after the completion of my… more

Percebes

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:16:15 +0000

I have recently released a new series titled Percebes, available to purchase directly from me. The works are helping support an upcoming residency at Everybody Arts, Halifax, taking place from… more

AA2A Residency, Leeds Beckett University

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:27:49 +0000

I am delighted to be an 2025/26 AA2A resident artist at Leeds Beckett University. My residency centres my project Dark Holding, an investigation into Whitby jet as a drawing material.… more

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

Miramientos at Espacio Alexandra

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:35:05 +0000

I’m pleased to announce my upcoming exhibition Miramientos in Spain. The exhibition brings together a selection of recent works that explore the act of looking as a form of attention,… 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

Advent Drawings

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:27:59 +0000

Each year during Advent (1st-24th December), a new drawing is created daily, resulting in a self-contained series of 24 works. Advent is chosen not for its religious connotations but for… more

Orphans

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:29:15 +0000

These drawings are fragments, sketches, and abstractions. Some are old, some recent. Some are on their own, others in clusters or ‘siblings’. Most emerged on the journey to something else,… more

Placing Mars at Kate Orme Studio & Gallery

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:29:42 +0000

I am delighted to be showing a very special selection of works at Kate Orme Studio & Gallery in Springfield Mill, Denby Dale. The exhibition Placing Mars explores our relationship… more

Life Size Mars

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

An ongoing series of tiny pencil drawings that render sections of Mars’ surface in a 1:1 scale. Though we might be accustomed to the spectacular images of Martian vast landscapes,… more

a-n Bursary

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:37:56 +0000

I am delighted to have been awarded a 2024/25 Artists’ Bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company. The full list of recipients is available here. I am using this bursary… more

Exhibition at Grundy Art Gallery

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:47:37 +0000

I am delighted that my video work Upon a Painted Ocean is included in the winter programme at Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool. On display until 8th of March 2025. more

Seeing Beyond x Eye Room

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:43:07 +0000

1 JUL – 19 OCT 2024 An exhibition of my recent works at Eye Room, Leeds, curated by The Art Court.This solo exhibition of drawings takes us beyond what can… more

Beyond Scale Gallery

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:06:22 +0000

Miniature is one of the refuges of greatness. – Gaston Bachelard In 2020, I created the miniature art gallery Beyond Scale, which has featured exhibitions by other contemporary artists. To… more

Exhibition at OBP

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 17 May 2024 10:06:24 +0000

I am delighted to be back exhibiting at the new Our Big Picture art spaces in Grimsby’s highstreet. Beyond Scale presents a selection of recent and new works exploring our… more

The Spring Exhibition in Leeds

Hondartza Fraga — Wed, 15 May 2024 23:11:12 +0000

My work is included in The Spring Exhibition, where art evokes the essence of the season. The exhibition boasts an array of mediums, from intricate textiles to ethereal paintings, each weaving… more

The Art Court at the First White Cloth Hall, Leeds

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:38:43 +0000

I am delighted to exhibit with The Art Court at First White Cloth Hall in Leeds. This stunning building will become a temporary gallery for the next two months. The… 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

BABBLE at ILKON

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:07:55 +0000

I will be exhibiting some recent drawings at BABBLE, an exhibition of contemporary Art by over thirty artists, many of whom are from the East Midlands, on the subject of… more

Colours From Life at Manchester Art Fair 17/18/19 Nov

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:00:20 +0000

I am excited to share that I have work in the upcoming exhibition Colours From Life by The Art Court. The exhibition will launch at the Manchester Art Fair (17/18/19 Nov)… more

In Conversation – Thur 27th July 6pm

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:38:54 +0000

I will be discussing my exhibition Uncalibrated at Sunny Bank Mills Gallery with the curator Courtney Spencer. During this artist’s talk, you will learn more about the research, process and… more

Uncalibrated at Sunny Bank Mills

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:06:10 +0000

A solo exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, Leeds. 8th – 30th July 2023 Open 10am – 4pm Tuesdays to Saturdays & 12pm – 4pm on Sundays. The exhibition… more

Circumnavigation: Drawing Symposium

Hondartza Fraga — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:53:06 +0000

On the 11th of March I will be presenting at the ‘Circumnavigation’ Drawing Symposium at the National Maritime Museum in London. This free, inclusive symposium launches the ‘Drawn Together’ season of… more

Talk for Leeds Art Fund – 16th March 7pm

Hondartza Fraga — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:12:15 +0000

On Thursday 16th of March, I will be giving a zoom online talk from my studio where I will discuss my practice. The talk has been organised by Leeds Art… more

Made in Leeds

Hondartza Fraga — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:04:27 +0000

My work will be included in the exhibition Made in Leeds at Northlight Arts Centre. The exhibition opens from the 6th of March until the 15th of April. I am… more

Leeds Artists Show 2023

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:56:09 +0000

I am delighted that my work will be included in Leeds Artists Show 2023 at the Leeds Art Gallery. I will be presenting a new iteration of my work Ghost.… more

‘Life Size Mars’ acquired by The University of Leeds

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:03:57 +0000

I am delighted that my work Life Size Mars has been acquired by The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, following my exhibition Seeing Stars, in 2022. This… 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

A Charm of Goldfinches

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:11:37 +0000

I have a new little drawing in the following exhibition, organised by artist Bryan Eccleshall. ‘A Charm of Goldfinches’ Gage Gallery, 40 Ball Street, Sheffield, S3 8DB Open Thursday 1st… more

Seeing Stars – Artists Panel Discussion

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:02:29 +0000

Join me, guest curator, and artists Stella Baraklianou, Mishka Henner and Paul Magee to discuss our work and the themes of Seeing Stars. Date: Friday 1 July 2022, 17:30 –… more

Sixty Drawings Plus Ten

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 23 May 2022 14:36:31 +0000

I am delighted to have a drawing in the exhibition 60 Drawings + 10, which will open the 16th June at The Whitaker Museum, For more info click here. In… more

Leeds Summer Group Show 2022

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 23 May 2022 14:20:06 +0000

I am delighted to have new drawing works selected in the 2022 Leeds Summer Group Show. Opening 1-30th June, at Leeds Playhouse. More info below. The Leeds Summer Group Show… more

Drawing exhibition at Fronteer Gallery

Hondartza Fraga — Mon, 23 May 2022 14:12:34 +0000

I am delighted to have a new drawing work included in the Drawing exhibition at Fronteer Gallery in Sheffield. Opening 2nd June. For more details click here. more

Seeing Stars – The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:09:57 +0000

Seeing Stars at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, was an exhibition curated by myself. The exhibition was an extension of my research into our relationship with… more

Definitions of Drawing – Sunny Bank Mills

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:23:39 +0000

I present new works in the upcoming exhibitionÂ Definitions of Drawing. Curated by Courtney Spencer, this exhibition brings together the work of fifteen artists who interrogate the medium of drawing through… more

Letting it Settle

Hondartza Fraga — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:18:56 +0000

Letting it Settle is the first exhibition of new work by hyphae drawing collective. Newly formed, we came together earlier this year as participants of a pilot drawing programme. The works I… 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

Los Fantasmas de Saturno – Espacio Alexandra

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:58:35 +0000

It is with great delight that I am presenting a solo exhibition at Espacio Alexandra in Santander, Spain. The exhibition entitled ‘Los Fantasmas de Saturno’ (The Ghosts of Saturn) presents… more

New Commission for North Lincolnshire Museum

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:55:36 +0000

I have recently completed and installed a new body of work commissioned by North Lincolnshire Museum in Scunthorpe for their joined exhibitions exploring maps, inspired by the work of William… more

Interviewed by Court Spencer

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:44:52 +0000

I was recently interviewed by Court Spencer for her (for now virtual) studio visits feature at The State of the Arts. The State of the Arts covers culture and politics… 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

Drawing Correspondence: GROW

Hondartza Fraga — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:48:00 +0000

During February and March 2021, I took [art in the pilot program Drawing Correspondence: GROW, led by Chloe Briggs, Tania Kovats and Anita Taylor. My participation was possible thanks to… more

Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing

Hondartza Fraga — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:30:52 +0000

I am honoured to have been included in the third instalment of Phaidon Vitamin D books. The book is out now (click here to order), and it includes one hundred… more