In 2002 Mel Fraser received her first public commission to design a memorial for Comberton Village: entitled ‘Tranquillity’ it was completed and installed in May 2003.

Mel has been working alongside service users from Fulbourn Hospital Trust in Cambridge in a project that involves the creation of several carved heads. A sculpture, ‘Impressions’, containing elements of the heads produced by the service users, will be carved by her and will be installed in 2010.

She has also taught at various schools around Cambridge including, Perse, Comberton, Morley, St Paul’s and St Matthew’s and has a number of individual students who join her at her studio and who have now gone on to exhibit their own work at Open Studios.

Mel is always keen to explore new ideas, with her sculpting and also within the spheres of painting and poetry, areas that are new to her but have been crucial to her work as an artist.