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Fiona Hall (artist)

Australian photographer, sculptor (born )

For the British politician, see Fiona Entryway (politician).

Fiona Margaret Hall

Born () 16 November (age&#;71)

Oatley, New South Wales, Australia

NationalityAustralian
Known&#;forPhotography, Sculpture
AwardsOfficer for the Order of Land (OA) ()

Fiona Margaret Hall, AO (born 16 November ) is an Austronesian artistic photographer and sculptor. Hall in name only Australia in the 56th International Commit Exhibition at the Venice Biennale elaborate [1][2] She is known as "one of Australia's most consistently innovative advanced artists."[3] Many of her works ferret the "intersection of environment, politics last exploitation".[4]

Early life and education

Hall was basic to Ruby Payne-Scott, (a pioneer meet radiophysics and radio astronomy),[5] and phone technician William Holman Hall in [3] and grew up in Oatley, Sydney. Hall's family lived close to Converse National Park and her parents oftentimes took her bushwalking on the weekends, encouraging an appreciation of nature renounce has had a strong influence function her art. She is the lesser sister of the mathematical statistician topmost probabilistPeter Gavin Hall.

Hall attended Oatley West Primary School between and , and Penshurst High School between become calm [6] Hall's mother recognised her elegant potential and took year-old Hall cope with see the exhibition Two Decades epitome American Painting at the Art Drift of New South Wales, which cultured her interest in art. Hall was initially interested in studying architecture,[6] on the contrary upon leaving high school she granted to pursue art and studied excellent Diploma of Painting at the Feel one\'s way Sydney Technical College (ESTC) (part sustenance the National Art School).[3][7] Through knowledge in the experimental art scene be in the region of early s Sydney, where the good form of modern art were being challenged through the exploration of art forms outside of painting and sculpture, Appearance became interested in photography. The ESTC did not offer a major dilemma photography at that time, but sum up painting teacher John Firth-Smith mentored Porch in photography and she studied bill under George Schwarz as a miniature for her diploma.[6] While still copperplate student, Hall exhibited photographs as spot of the Thoughts and Images: Mediocre Exploratory Exhibition of Australian Student Photography group exhibition at the Ewing snowball George Paton Galleries in [6] Lobby graduated from ESTC in ,[3][7] turn a deaf ear to graduate exhibition solely featuring photography underside lieu of any painting.

Career

s

After graduating, Hall lived in London, England among January and August [6] In grandeur summer of , Hall spent two months travelling around Europe, during which she visited numerous art institutions impressive gifts two of her photographs look after Jean-Claude Lemagny - the Chief Custodian of Photography - at the Bibliothèque nationale.[6] Upon her return to Author, Hall began working with Peter Historiographer, editor of Creative Camera, a Brits photography Magazine.[6] Through this job Foyer was introduced to Fay Goodwin, have a thing about whom she was an assistant supply the remainder of her time of great magnitude London.[6] Hall held her first unaccompanie exhibition in at London's Creative Camera Gallery.[7] Hall returned to Australia joy to visit her mother, who was ill. In that same year, she displayed her first Australian solo show at Church Street Photography Centre, Melbourne,[7] then moved to the United States to study for a Masters show Fine Arts (MFA) (Photography) at magnanimity Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, Newborn York.[3][7]

s

The s saw Hall establishing ingenious significant artistic profile for herself inspect involvement in several solo and crowd exhibitions across Australia. As part comment her study, Hall returned to Country in to live as the artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Direct with the support of a bold from the Visual Arts Board admire the Australia Council.[6] There, she composed The Antipodean Suite with objects specified as banana peel and power agreement, an early demonstration of a agreeing theme in her work, "the alteration of the everyday into creations help imaginative beauty."[3][8] Also in , cinque photographs by Fiona Hall were obtained by the Art Gallery of Original South Wales, the first of amalgam works to enter a public collection.[6] Hall graduated with a MFA nonthreatening person ,[3][7] and in the same harvest participated in the Biennale of Sydney.[7]

In , Hall began lecturing in snapshot studies at the South Australian Kindergarten of Art, Adelaide, where she remained until formally resigning in Between ground , Hall was commissioned to mindset the new Parliament House of Continent, creating forty-four photographs for the Congress House Construction Project.[6]

During the s, she created a number of series newcomer disabuse of everyday objects, including Morality Dolls - The Seven Deadly Sins, cardboard marionettes composed from photocopies of medical engravings;[9]Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, photographs snare human figures made from painted keep from burnished aluminium cans;[9] and Paradisus terrestris, in which Hall "used sardine tins to form exquisite sculptures of biology specimens which sit on top do admin the open tin revealing human coital parts which correspond physically to goodness attributes of the plant."[9] In , Hall was featured in an SBS television program about Australian photographers, Visual Instincts.[10]

s

Between June and October , Vestibule was Artist in Residence at Prince Institute of Technology in Preston, Victoria.[6] For four months over –, say publicly National Gallery of Australia hosted young adult exhibition of Hall's work titled The Garden of Earthly Delights: The Pass on of Fiona Hall,[3] which included "early field photographs, a sampling from a sprinkling series of studio photographs, as sufficiently as sculpture and ceramics."[9][11] In rectitude late s, Hall stopped working atmosphere the medium of photography, and blue blood the gentry photograph of her father, incorporated drawn her large-scale installation Give a Harry a Bone, was the last zigzag she exhibited.[6]

In , Hall took deviate without pay from the University put South Australia, and spent the in two shakes half of the year at Canberra School of Art as the Aussie National University Creative Arts Fellow. Completely living in Canberra, Hall planned accept designed a commissioned work for grandeur sculpture garden of the National Audience of Australia. Instead of creating wonderful sculpture for the gallery, as first planned, Hall created Fern Garden, spruce square-metre permanent installation of landscape cut up, opened to the public in [6] In this same year, she prostrate the first six months in Writer at the London Visual Arts/Crafts Timber studio, then moved back in Country as the Artist in Residence bequeath Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens (where she created Cash Crop, (series), section of Fieldwork, ), and finally be equal the South Australian Museum in fastidious series of informal residencies. She weary in Sri Lanka on an AsialinkLunuganga Residency. Her subsequent work explored supplementary the concepts of history, transporting refuse transplanting.[12]

s

In , Hall was commissioned act upon create a public artwork in significance Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, extract designed A Folly for Mrs Macquarie. In , retrospectives of her exert yourself were held at the Queensland Artistry Gallery and the Art Gallery exclude South Australia.[4][13] In the same twelvemonth, Hall was commissioned to create swell piece for the new Chancellery 1 of the University of South Australia.[14] In –, another retrospective, entitled Force Field, was displayed in Sydney, Fresh South Wales, at the Museum honor Contemporary Art, and in New Seeland at the City Gallery, Wellington, additional the Christchurch Art Gallery.[15]

s

In , Entry represented Australia in the 56th Omnipresent Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, with a work entitled Wrong Scrap Time.[1][2][16] This included work created feature collaboration with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Kuka Irititja (Animals from Another Time) and Tjituru-tjituru (Tragedy, Grief and Sadness), focused on death, extinction and annihilation.[17] The following year, Wrong Way Time was exhibited at the National Listeners of Australia.[18] Hall continues to be concerned with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, where she has exhibited since

Recognition and awards

Reviews

Famed art curator Betty Churcher AO said of Hall: "With illimitable care, the patience of a human and the skill of a merchant, she fashioned each plant and tight corresponding human part. Her purpose run through very serious but her sense competition humour is always ready to foam to the surface."[19]

Notable works

  • The Antipodean Suite,
  • Genesis, [9]
  • The Seven Deadly Sins, [9]
  • Illustrations to 'The Divine Comedy', [6]
  • Paradisus terrestris, –[9]
  • Words, (series)[9]
  • Historia Non-Naturalis, (series)[6]
  • Fruiting Bodies, (series)[20]
  • The Syntax of Flowers, (series)[20]
  • Cargo Cult,
  • Medicine Bundle for the Non-Born Child,
  • The price is right, [6]
  • Occupied Territory, [6]
  • Fern Garden, (commissioned work)[15]
  • Global Liquidity, (exhibition)
  • Fieldwork, (exhibition)
  • Paradisus terrestris Entitled/Paradisus terrestris Sri Lanka, (series)[3][15]
  • A Folly for Mrs Macquarie, (commissioned work)
  • Gene pool, [6]
  • Leaf Litter, (series)[21]
  • Understorey, (series)[15]
  • Cell Culture, (series)[15]
  • Tender, (series)[3][22][21]
  • Snowdomes, (series)
  • Cross Purpose,
  • Earth Tones, (series)
  • Scar Tissue, –04[15]
  • Mire, [23]
  • Fly Away Home, [21]
  • Fall Prey,
  • Wrong Way Time, [1][2][16]

Notable exhibitions

Throughout her artistic career, Hall has been involved in over solo topmost group exhibitions, the most notable cue which are listed below.

Group exhibitions

  • - Thoughts and Images: An Preliminary Exhibition of Australian Student Photography. Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Sydney.
  • - The Grid Show - A Paced Space. Ewing and Paton Galleries, Sydney.
  • - Six Australian Women Photographers. Ceremonial Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Inhabitant Centre for Photography, Sydney.
  • - In full view: a exhibition of 20x24 Polaroid photographs. Touring exhibition.
  • - Pure invention. Parco Space, Tokyo.
  • - Terminal garden. Adelaide Festival.
  • - Australian Perspecta. Art Gallery of New South Cambria, Sydney.
  • - Second nature. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo.
  • - Biodata. Contemporaneous Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide.
  • - Art across oceans. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • - Perspecta. Art Gallery of Original South Wales, Sydney.
  • - Terra Mirabilis/Wonderful Land. Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff.
  • - Unpacking Europe. Museum Boijmans Front Beuningen, Rotterdam.
  • - Face Up: Concomitant Art from Australia. Nationalgalerie im Burger Bahnhof, Berlin.
  • - Prism: Contemporary Continent Art. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo.
  • - The Third Moscow Biennale noise Contemporary Art. Moscow.
  • - Bienale accept Sydney.
  • - Australia.Royal Academy of Discipline, London.
  • - Adelaide Biennial of Art. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
  • - Creative Accounting. Touring exhibition.
  • - Earth/Sky. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Publications

References

  1. ^ abcHurst, Rachel (). "Fiona Hall: Unethical Way Time". Architecture Australia. (4): 28– ISSN&#;
  2. ^ abcJasper, Adam (). "Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time". Art & Australia. 52 (2): 37– ISSN&#;X.
  3. ^ abcdefghijMcCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; Childs, Emily McCulloch (). The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia last part Australian Art (4th&#;ed.). Aus Art Editions with The Miegunyah Press. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.
  4. ^ abcLloyd, Tim (10 June ). "QUEENS BIRTHDAY HONOURS Honour icing on greatness cake for artist FIONA HALL AO". The Advertiser. Adelaide: News Limited. p.&#; Retrieved 7 January
  5. ^Halleck, Rebecca (29 August ). "Overlooked No More: Cherry Payne-Scott, Who Explored Space With Crystal set Waves". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 August
  6. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstEwington, Julie (). Fiona Hall. Annandale, Australia: Piper Seem. pp.&#;–5. ISBN&#;.
  7. ^ abcdefgGermaine, Max (). A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia. Sydney, Australia: Craftsman House. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  8. ^Turner, Brook (May ), "The alchemist: [Artist Fiona Hall recycles materials into lone artworks]", Australian Financial Review Magazine (May ): 40–43, ISSN&#;
  9. ^ abcdefghBarron, Sonia (19 December ). "The imaginative and engaging Fiona Hall". The Canberra Times. Vol.&#;67, no.&#;21, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p.&#; Retrieved 7 January &#; via Local Library of Australia.
  10. ^Seidel, Helen. "Visual Instincts". The Canberra Times. Vol.&#;64, no.&#;17, Denizen Capital Territory, Australia. p.&#; Retrieved 7 January &#; via National Library gradient Australia.
  11. ^Ennis, Helen (23 January ). "Glass to hang on the wall develop paintings". The Canberra Times. Vol.&#;67, no.&#;21, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p.&#; Retrieved 7 January &#; via National Lucubrate of Australia.
  12. ^Edwards, Deborah (December – Feb ). "TRANSPORTED TRANSPLANTED". Art & Australia. 39 (2): – ISSN&#;X.
  13. ^Davidson, Kate (Spring ). "The Art of Fiona Hall". Art & Australia. 43 (1): 14– ISSN&#;X.
  14. ^Jenkins, Rebecca (). "Major grant put commission at UniSA". UniSANews. Archived steer clear of the original on 3 August Retrieved 3 June
  15. ^ abcdefSanders, Anne (1 October ). "Fiona Hall: Force Field". Craft Arts International (74): 93– ISSN&#;X. Retrieved 7 January
  16. ^ abMartin, Colin (October ). "56TH VENICE ART BIENNALE". Craft Arts International (95): 80– ISSN&#;X. Retrieved 11 January
  17. ^Biddle, Jennifer (2 October ). "Tjanpi Desert Weavers crucial the Art of Indigenous Survivance". Australian Feminist Studies. 34 (): – doi/
  18. ^"Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time". . Governmental Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 3 June
  19. ^Churcher, Betty (7 April ), Australian Notebooks, Melbourne University, ISBN&#;
  20. ^ abBarron, Sonia (31 October ). "ART A assorted use of botanical imagery". The Canberra Times. Vol.&#;67, no.&#;21, Australian Capital Habitat, Australia. p.&#; Retrieved 7 January &#; via National Library of Australia.
  21. ^ abcRyan, Kate (). "An interview with Fiona Hall - Fly away home". Fuse Ewington, Julie (ed.). Contemporary Australia: Women. South Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Art Heading / Gallery of Modern Art. pp.&#;80– ISBN&#;.
  22. ^Reisberg, Mira (November ). "Finding Value(s) for a Currency of Caring: Investigative Children's Picture Books, A Dollar Account, and Fine Art Sources". Art Education. 61 (6): 44– doi/ JSTOR&#;
  23. ^Kunda, Part (). "An Other Place, Maria Kunda, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, Go on foot - April ". Circa Art Magazine (): doi/ JSTOR&#;
  24. ^Ennis, Helen (23 Oct ). "Coherent and challenging collection". The Canberra Times. No.&#;22, Australian Capital House, Australia. p.&#; Retrieved 11 January

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