Fiona Hall b. 1953

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Born in 1953 in Sydney, New South Wales, Fiona Hall is an award winning photographer, sculptor and installation artist exploring themes of globalization, colonialism and the environment in her work.
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exhibited at
21st Century: Art in the First Decade
Date
2010 - 2011
Place
Gallery of Modern Art - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

This exhibition examines current directions in art practice and also the conditions for art and exhibition making in the 21st century.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/past/2010/21st_Century
exhibited at
Fiona Hall: Force Field
Date
2008
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; City Callery, Wellington, New Zealand; Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=3606
exhibited at
Contempora5
Date
1998
Place
National Gallery of Victoria
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/
exhibited at
Fiona Hall: cash crop
Date
1998
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Cash crop / Fiona Hall. Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 1998
1 folded sheet, 8 p : ill ; 15 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Mixed media
exhibited at
Fiona Hall: Canberra projects
Date
1997
Place
School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Description

Works produced during Fiona Hall’s Creative Fellowship at the Canberra School of Art in 1997.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fiona Hall: Canberra projects. [Canberra: Australian National University, 1997]
[7] p : ill (some col), 1 port ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Mixed media
exhibited at
Ongoing Work: The Work of Art: Australian women writers and artists
Date
14 August 1995 - 11 February 1995
Place
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

A changing exhibition program, Ongoing Work profiled six contemporary Australian writers and artists. Each month a different filmmaker, artist, illustrator, photographer, sculptor or writer explored ' “the work of art” for women today’.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
The Work of Art: Australian women writers and artists
Date
14 August 1995 - 11 February 1996
Place
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales: Hang No. 2
Date
24 April 1995 - 4 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

See also the catalogue for Review

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art
Date
8 March 1995 - July 1995
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women hold up half the sky
Date
March 1995 - April 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Opened by the Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence. Heritage book launched at the same time. The touring exhibition, Sydney by Design, formed one section of this exhibition.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Subject to change: Fiona Hall
Date
1995
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Subject to change / Fiona Hall. Adlelaide: Experimental Art Foundation; Annandale, NSW: Piper Press, 1995
ISBN 095879846X (Piper Press, EAF); ISBN 0949836303 (EAF)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Mixed media
exhibited at
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Date
1994
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://nga.gov.au/Home/Default.cfm
exhibited at
Garden of earthly delights: the work of Fiona Hall
Date
1994
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

An NGA touring exhibition to: NGV, AGNSW, Plimsoll Gallery Hobart, AGWA, Brisbane City Hall. This exhibition surveyed the work of the innovative contemporary Australian artist Fiona Hall, covering her work since 1974.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; AGWA annual report; State Library of QLD catalogue; http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/?aid=17&profile=1(22/12/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Garden of earthly delights: the work of Fiona Hall / Kate Davidson. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1992
ISBN 0642130515

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Mixed media
exhibited at
Biodata
Date
1994
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

A knitted a matinee jacket, a bonnet and bootees, and made a rattle/teething ring from thin metal strips cut from Coke cans. The six pack of Coke cans onto which rubber nipples were attached referring to how Coca-cola, originally used traditional drugs, the South American cocoa leaf and the African cola nut. As well as being a sign of consumer capitalism Coke was also used as a post-coital contraceptive douche in Third World countries in which the artist clearly pointed to.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002;
http://stephanieradok.com/writing/000034.shtml

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Adelaide Biennial, Duo, Installation
exhibited at
Words
Date
1990
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

No photographs in this show, only images [of images] reminiscent of the obsolescence of the black and white silver gelatin print and author’s long held love of this medium.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy
Date
7 September 1989 - 1 October 1989
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Fiona Hall’s CV (Roslyn Oxley Gallery)

Large format polaroid illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy portraying hell, purgatory and paradise on an epic scale.
EAF Annual Report 1989

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy
Date
1989
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Fiona Hall’s CV (Roslyn Oxley Gallery)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy
Date
1989
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Fiona Hall’s CV (Roslyn Oxley Gallery)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Fiona Hall: selections from 14 years
Date
August 1987
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report 1987

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Mixed media
exhibited at
In Full View: An Exhibition of 20 x 24 Photographs
Date
1986
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
exhibited at
III III II: a survey of twelve year work
Date
1986
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Fiona Hall’s CV (Roslyn Oxley Gallery)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Photography
exhibited at
Fiona Hall: recent work
Date
1986
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Fiona Hall’s CV (Roslyn Oxley Gallery)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Photography
exhibited at
Thirteen Photographers
Date
December 1983
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

students and staff of SA School of Art- Terence Hollow, Craig Rowley, Timo Pajunen, Fiona Hall, Ed Douglas, Delsha Rees; others at Developed Image

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Photography, Group exhibition
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/
exhibited at
Fiona Hall: recent photographs
Date
1983
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Fiona Hall’s CV (Roslyn Oxley Gallery)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Photography
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