life cycle, 2024

I am a multi disciplinary artist working across ceramics, illustration, weaving, and photography with a focus on ceramics. I live on the wild west coast of Victoria, Wadawurrung Country, Australia. I have exhibited throughout Australia in both group and solo exhibitions. In my exhibitions I often call for visitors to participate in creating a collaborative piece. My practice explores the concept of time, emotion and memory, how one affects the other and how each is perceived in any moment. This is achieved through the use of line and form to represent feelings within time by giving them weight on paper, in fibre or through clay. My practice in ceramics loops and links pieces together as sculptural yet changeable representations of emotions. These explore the concept and perception of time and how it concertinas when paired with memory and feeling, how stories evolve and change over time. Being able to see ‘time’ out of time is a cathartic and incredibly interesting and engaging experience and one I continue to explore. What I capture in my ceramics – indeed across my art practice – is a moment or a compilation of moments that culminate in works of delicate beauty. Through my works I cause people to pause and be present in the moment, to be engaged in what they are experiencing.

Fiona is a multidisciplinary artist with a background and body of work in design and surface design. Her practice is based in Wadawurrung Country, Australia. Her current works combine ceramics and felted wool.

Her favourite clays are porcelain, which is beautiful in its strength and translucence, and black stoneware, which is gorgeous in its depth. Each piece is hand-formed using a variety of materials, including felted wool. The surface treatment and colour sensibility of each collection of works reference her background in design and her desire to create an ongoing narrative.

Fiona has an inherent love of form and texture which underlies her practice whilst describing the connections between us in physical form.

As well as exhibiting in Australia, she has been the recipient of several grants, which she has used to continue her exploration of the concept of time, emotion, and memory, as well as how one affects the other and how each is perceived at any moment.