William Frater b. 1 January 1890

Also known as "Jock" Frater
  • Designer (Glass & metal Artist / Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Frater's career began with an apprenticeship in glass design in Scotland. He arrived in Melbourne 1910, worked with Brooks, Robinson and Co. in stained glass, later with E.L. Yencken, Melbourne. Best known as a figurative painter following training at the George Bell School, Melbourne. Elected President of the Victorian Artists Society.
Tags: stained glass designer, painter, Lecturer
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Dick Wittman, 'William Frater: A Life With Colour’. Melb Uni Press, 2000.

'Jock Frater was on of the first modern painters who opposed the fashionable and academic schools of painting. During the 1930s he exhibited with the Contemporary Art Group along with Arnold Shore and George Bell. During a very conservative period in Australian Art John Frater advanced the cause of innovation and modernism.’

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