Biography

 

Fiona Davies

 

Education:

2005                 Master of Fine Art (by Research) Monash University.

1993                 Post Graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Monash College, Gippsland.

1986                 Bachelor of Art (Visual Arts) University of Western Sydney (Nepean).

1976                 Bachelor of Applied Science (Textile Technology) University of NSW.

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions since 2000:
Memorial/Double Pump Laplace II    Physics Building University of Sydney Sep 2010
Memorial/Time of Death            Garden Museum London Feb 2010
Intangible Collection                  Maitland Regional Art Gallery Aug to Nov 2009
Memorial/Double Pump Laplace III   Chapel of Lincoln College Oxford Feb 2009
When the Sun blinks                Antarctic Room Canterbury Museum

                                              Christchurch 2007

Memorial / When I was younger  Blacktown Arts Centre 2007

Water Flower of Another           Esa Jaske Gallery and Project Space 2006

Memorial/Double Pump Laplace St Marks, Aberdeen, NSW 2006

In Memoriam                           Oceania Centre U.S.P. Suva, Fiji 2005

Memorial/Davies / Fleming / Gooding / Prescott / Skudder           

                                               Esa Jaske Gallery and Project Space2005

Ice/Plain as a Glass of Water    Esa Jaske Gallery and Project Space 2004

Safe Return Doubtful                 Antarctic Canterbury Museum Christchurch 2003

One Only                                 Physics Room, Christchurch N.Z.  2002

out of place                              Soapbox Gallery, Fortitude Valley,

                                               Brisbane, 2000

Memorial/BallyBrack                 Lewers Bequest and Regional Art Gallery 2000

Missing - Untold                       Susannah Place, The Rocks Sydney 2000

 

 

Collaborative Works with Patricia Prociv

http:/www.artistsreinterpretinghistory.com 
Lines in Suburbia                     Harris Park, Sydney March 2010 Online at the website above  
Neither Thrived                         Parramatta Riverside as part of Currents 08

                                               from Nov 9th 2008

Lines in the Landscape I and II  Parramatta Park andExperiment Farm

                                               Parramatta,from Nov 2nd 2009

Lines in the Landscape             Parramatta Park from June 2008

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions since 1998:

Looking at Others/Stage One of the Death Project

                                               Parramatta Artist Studios  2008

Building Sites Taking Shape      Maitland Hospital – curated by Maitland Regional

                                               Art Gallery 2006

Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica - Adam Art Gallery Wellington NZ 2005

2004 The Year in Art                 S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney 2004

Anita and Beyond                     Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery 2003

Back of House                         Old Government House Parramatta 2003

Sisters and Spinsters, the Misses Swann of Elizabeth Farm,

                                               Elizabeth Farm, Rosehill, Sydney 1998

 

Awards and Grants:                Australia Council grant new work category

 

Residencies:                          Oceania Centre USP Suva 2005

                                         

Collections:                            Historic Houses Trust 

                                               Casula Powerhouse

 

 

Recent Conference Papers:
AAAPS Conference Oceanic Transformations, Melbourne April 2010 
                                                'Tapa in Four Ways'  
British Library/Arts Catalyst/Open University Polar Archive,

                                                  London UK  Nov 19-20 2007

AAAPS conference The Pacifc in Australia – Australia in the Pacific 

                                                  Brisbane Jan 23rd -27th 2006

AaaNZ annual conference Present Pasts - Present Futures 

                                                  Auckland NZ  Dec 1-3 2004

Amercian Oral History Association Annual Conference 

                                                  Portland, Oregon USA Oct 2004  

South 1                                       Melbourne July 1-4 2004

 

Selected Bibliography - Catalogues + Essays + Reviews.
Fiona Davies; Intangible Collection   Joanna Mendelson Artlink Dec 2009
A triumph for the culturati          John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, August 22 2009
Lines in the Landscape             Lee Ann Hall  Art Monthly Australia, December 2009

Memorial / When I was younger Blacktown Arts Centre 2007

Cup half Empty                         NZ Listener October 6 -10 2007  Andrew Paul Wood 

                    www.listener.co.nz/issue/3517/artsbooks/9739/cup_half_empty.html

Memorial/Double Pump Laplace St Marks, Aberdeen, NSW 2006

Fiji Selected Works                    Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2005/2006 page 72

Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica Adam Art Gallery Wellington NZ 2005

Anita and Beyond                      Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery, 

                                                2003

Missing – Untold                       Susannah Place, The Rocks, 2000

One Only                                  Grant Banbury in the Physics Room Annual 
                                                2002 Page 45

view on the archives,                 The Press, 2002 Feb. 20, p. 36 Pauli,  

                                               Dorothee. One Only by Fiona Davies. Includes 

                                               archival materials relating  to Shackleton's

                                               expeditions    

That's such a pretty dress, dear  Canberra Contemporary Artspace 3  
                                                Manuka,1994

 

 

Specialties
Digital
Historical
Medical
Painting
Printmaking
Religion
Sculpture
Textiles