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Talismans – Lost Charm Bracelet
Bronze
900 x 500 mm
Signed
Series – each one unique -
Talismans – Sycamore Seed
Cast Bronze
200 x 150 mm
Signed
Edition of 13 -
They Came With Their Seeds, Dreams and Stories
Bronze
80 x 80 x 8 mm
Signed
Edition of 9 -
Rabbit’s Foot
Cast Bronze
70 x 200 mm
Signed
Edition of 13 -
Talismans – Flawed Leaf Clover
Cast Bronze
160 x 140 mm
Signed
Edition of 13 -
Lucky Acorn
Cast Bronze
100 x 170 mm
Signed
Edition of 13 -
Talismans – Wish Bone
Cast Bronze
140 x 180 mm
Signed
Edition of 13 -
Charmed Invader – Medal
Bronze
Ed. 6/10
7cm diameter
Sycamore – 2009 -
Waterways & Trees, Life Blood & Lungs
Bronze
80 x 80 mm
Ed. of 9
Born in England, Fiona lived in Kenya and Zimbabwe before immigrating to New Zealand in 1976. Her first degree was a BA in English Literature at Victoria University Wellington. After 15 years working in the television industry as a director and producer she fell out of love for the medium and realized a long time ambition to do a Fine Arts Degree. Living in London at the time, she began with an Arts Foundation course at Camberwell College of Art before moving to Cornwall to study at Falmouth College of Arts. It was here that Fiona made her first bronze medal “The Wave” which won first Prize for the British Art Medal Society Student Award in 2005. Much of her early sculptural work drew from the wild coastline and sea, and, realizing she was missing the New Zealand landscape Fiona moved home to Auckland. In 2008 she graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts with a BFA (Honours).
Fiona has exhibited in various outdoor sculpture shows including twice in Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens at the Auckland Botanic Gardens, several NZ Sculpture on Shore, and has had a work installed at Brick Bay Sculpture Trail. Much of her work deals with the concept of place, identity and colonialism. Giant Charm Bracelet, her first big work to get noticed, continues to be made and remade in different locations, and with differing aspects of communal interaction.
It was whilst taking part in Sculpture in the Gardens that she was introduced to members of Medal Art New Zealand (MANZ) who invited her to join the group. It is this collaboration that has allowed her to develop and refine her skills in the art of bronze and has led to several commissions. Whilst more recently her larger scale work took a back seat to a day job and a child, her move back to Otago heralds a new start and an intention to move into medium scale bronzes, and large-scale installations in the landscape.
2020 Renewart 2020, Three Lakes Cultural Trust, Queenstown, NZ
2020 Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden 2020, Christchurch, NZ
2019 Sculpture on the Peninsula, Christchurch, NZ
2019 Arrowtown Autumn Festival Exhibition, Lakes District Museum Gallery, Arrowtown
2019 MANZ About Face, Artis Gallery, Parnell, Auckland
2018 ACAS Artists Exhibition – Lakes District Museum Gallery, Arrowtown
2017 Upheaval – Reconnect MANZ inaugural exhibtition at Artis Gallery, Parnell
2017 LUMA Southern Light Project – Installation of Skipping Stone for LUMA
2017 33rd Arrowtown Autumn Festival, Merit Award
2017 MANZ 25th Anniversary – Regroup Reflect Regenerate Forrester Gallery Oamaru
2016 MANZ 25th Anniversary – Regroup Reflect Regenerate Christchurch Museum
2016 MANZ 25th Anniversary – Regroup Reflect Regenerate Christchurch Museum
2016 MANZ 25th Anniversary – Regroup Reflect Regenerate Tauranga Art Gallery
2015 – 16 MANZ 25th Anniversary – Regroup Reflect Regenerate Tauranga Art Gallery
2015 MANZ 25th Anniversary – Regroup Reflect Regenerate The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre
2014 Aotea Gallery, Great Barrier Island. Guest artist/ collaborative workshop/ installation
2014 Sprout MANZ group exhibition. Auckland Botanic Gardens/Remuera Gallery
2013 Summer of Sculpture, Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland
2013 MANZ Group Show –Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
2012 Pat Farry Trust Charity Exhibition and Auction
2012 MANZ group show – Remuera Gallery, Auckland
2011 Sculpture in Central Otago – small works gallery Wanaka
2011 Kelsey Yaralla Kindergarten Charity Exhibition and Auction
2009 – 10 Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens – Auckland Botanic Gardens
2009 – 10 Garden of Delights, botanically inspired small sculptural gems – Auckland Botanic Gardens.
2009 Medallion Group Show 20th Anniversary Exhibition – Remuera Gallery
2009 Best in Show 2009 – Objectspace, Auckland
2008 A Stick of First Rate Quality – Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Warkworth
2008 NZ Sculpture on Shore – Fort Takapuna Historic Reserve, Auckland
2008 After the Event (Sculpture in the Gardens) -Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford
2007 Monkey Business – Artist run show with Julia Holden (painter), Auckland.
2007 Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens – Auckland Botanic Gardens
2007 Sculpture in the Park – Waitakaruru Aboretum, Waikato
2007 Emerging Gems (group show) – The Lake House Arts Centre, Takapuna
2006 Manukau Vessel and Sculpture Award – Nathan Homestead, Manurewa
2005 British Art Medal Society Student Art Award – Grand First Prize for The Wave
2005 The Wave Exhibition of British Student Art Medals UK tour and Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford – exhibitor, and exhibition named for work. Editioned by the British Art Medal Society and original is held in the British Museum Collection.