About Fiona
I used to mostly make art about women, relationships, nature, color, and patterns. I was primarily interested in exploring the connection between the internal and external, conscious and subconscious, relationships and solitude. I’ve always liked to notice that little thing over there that no one else saw and try to capture it to keep. I strived to make my art objectively beautiful and a touch weird, but these days, I strive to make my art weird, while maintaining it’s beauty. What is life if not beautiful and weird at the same time?
I’ve been making art my whole life, but my official credentials came in the form of my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics from the University of Georgia in Athens. Studying ceramics was honestly a last resort after a pessimisitic art education teacher told me there weren’t any art teacher jobs in the U.S. anymore and the graphic design department straight up rejected me. But in the ceramics department I found a sense of community that I was missing in my life and embraced the opportunity to be covered in dirt all day for years on end. I eventually fell in love with making life size sculptures of women and found that it helped me better understand the woman that I am and the line of women that I came from. After a long pause, I found myself making art again. Starting with my foundation of painting and drawing, but eventually expanding to everything from collage and dioramas to DJing and throwing immersive events. I’ve most recently started learning to animate and edit videos in service of creating a piece that will allow me to embrace all my mediums at once - an original electronic dance musical.
