Bundanon

In arriving at approaches to works Fiona enmeshes her studio practice with research and experimentation, through which are identified the themes, ideas, and processes of her works.  Fiona’s works represent the memory held within landscapes, coasts and oceans and the elements and murmuration of natural and human migrations, ocean currents, coastlines, and tidal patterns.

In recreating memories of historical and personal events Fiona selects physical materials drawn from the corporeal locations, with salt water, evaporation of brine, capillary action of liquids within textiles, oxidation of metals, and digital images of oceanographic current plots featuring.  Fiona extends the depth and meaning of the memories using materials applied to textiles which are drawn from studio and academic research and personal insight, such as the forms and voids of nails, staples, seawater and rust, and also more conventional art materials such as linen, graphite, pigments and sound.

In Residence at Bundanon

The project Nocturn Anamnesis is a work intertwining sound, drawing and painting. The recordings will be made at night in a range of settings throughout the Bundanon landscape. I am interested in the sounds of the night, a time we rarely venture into the Australian bush. I will produce works on paper and canvas that are paired with the sound recordings.

I am not a synaesthete but often when I think about my work in my minds eye I hear music as if it is accompanying the idea. It can be an indication to me to continue in certain artistic directions.  The residency will be an exploration of how sound might change the aesthetic of my works and practice.