ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch – Young and Emerging Artists Fund Award Winner
Fiona Morgan is a multi-disciplinary artists based in Wudawurrung country, in regional Victoria. Morgan’s practice is focused on painting and installation, primarily concentrating on abstraction, materiality and space, employing strategies for maintaining hope and joy in an ever more anxious world and political environment. Drawing on the surrounding location both natural and architectural, Morgan employs strategies of Formalism, repetition, gestural mark making and colour field to construct abstractions that are reminiscent of environment and space, while never directly representing either. Assemblages of painted works and found objects are understood as environments filled with colour and form. With a focus on painting and reclaimed materials, such as furniture, disused building materials, Morgan’s creative process is characterised by spontaneity and experimentation, the outcome is a body of work that celebrates the artist/makers contribution and highlights the environment and the reclamation of power through reuse and reimagining ‘things’.
Morgan studied an MFA at RMIT and a Bachelor of Fine Art at VCA. Morgan has shown in group and solo shows, including a wall-based installation at Buxton Contemporary (2018), Without Fail (Incinerator Gallery, 2018), and Can’t Quite Pin it Down (TCB, 2013).