Betra Fraval

Melbourne-based painter Betra Fraval holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts and has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne since 2008 at institutions including Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, C3 Contemporary Art Space and RES Artis, Glasshouse Studios. Her work has been included in group exhibitions since 2007 across Victoria and New South Wales, as well as internationally in Finland, Peru and France, at venues including Gippsland Art Gallery, The Dax Centre, Bayside Gallery, Bus Projects, Bundoora Homestead, the Victorian College of the Arts and Seventh Gallery.

Fraval has undertaken residencies at Bundanon, NSW (2025), Sanskriti Kendra, India (2009), Sachaqa Centro de Arte in the Peruvian Amazon (2018), Hôtel Sainte Valière, France (2019), and the Helsinki International Artist Programme, Finland (2019). In 2026, she will undertake a residency at Shark Island, Kangaroo Valley, and participate in a woodblock printing workshop at the Karuizawa Mokuhanga School in Japan.

She has been a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize (2024, 2020, 2016), the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (2022) and the R&M McGivern Prize (2019), and was awarded the Bayside Gallery Beckett Local Prize in 2026. Her work is held in the collections of Artbank and Gippsland Art Gallery, as well as in private collections in Australia and internationally.