Graduating as a Textile Designer at Wellington Polytechnic in 1978, Angela moved north to Auckland to work as a carpet designer. She was born in Dunedin and was influenced from an early age by the textile works of her mother, Betty Fraser.

Training as a Secondary art teacher in 1980, Angela spent some years teaching art in schools. In 1986 she started her own small business and made her living producing a range of colourful leather bags and purses to outlets throughout New Zealand. Her bags featured strong bright colours and use of applique.

Throughout the 1980's and 1990's Angela designed and made painted floormats. Using acrylic paint and a heavy canvas she painted her designs and then sealed them with several layers of glossy polyurethane. More recently she produced a range of printed t-shirts with a New Zealand theme using the label Pacific Shirts Gallery. This project was discontinued in 2009.

Angela has been teaching Design for Printed Textiles at AUT University since 1994. From 2007 she has worked with Digital Textile Printing within the Fashion Department and in conjunction with the AUT Textile and Design Laboratory (T+DL). For more information about the T+DL facilities visit http://www.tdl.aut.ac.nz

You can view her recent designs for print at http://www.angelfraser.com or visit her Spoonflower Design Gallery at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/angelfraser

Angela has Ngai Tahu ancestry from Otakou.