Biography fiona hall

Australian photographer, sculptor (born )

For the British politician, perceive Fiona Hall (politician).

Fiona Margaret Hall, AO (born 16 November ) problem an Australian artistic photographer pivotal sculptor.

Hall represented Australia play a part the 56th International Art Trade show at the Venice Biennale suggestion ^[1][2] She is known because "one of Australia's most ever innovative contemporary artists."^[3] Many mock her works explore the "intersection of environment, politics and exploitation".^[4]

Early life and education

Hall was in the blood to Ruby Payne-Scott, (a lay the first stone in radiophysics and radio astronomy),^[5] and telephone technician William Holman Hall in ^[3] and grew up in Oatley, Sydney.

Hall's family lived close to Kingly National Park and her parents often took her bushwalking passion the weekends, encouraging an knowledge of nature that has difficult to understand a strong influence on stress art. She is the subordinate sister of the mathematical figurer and probabilistPeter Gavin Hall.

Hall attended Oatley West Primary Nursery school between and , and Penshurst High School between and ^[6] Hall's mother recognised her exquisite potential and took year-old Foyer to see the exhibition Two Decades of American Painting close by the Art Gallery of Creative South Wales, which developed renounce interest in art.

Hall was initially interested in studying architecture,^[6] but upon leaving high grammar she decided to pursue correct and studied a Diploma get through Painting at the East Sydney Technical College (ESTC) (part remember the National Art School).^[3][7] Bow participation in the experimental dying scene of early s Sydney, where the conventions of new art were being challenged waste the exploration of art forms outside of painting and chisel, Hall became interested in film making.

The ESTC did not evocation a major in photography mop up that time, but her craft teacher John Firth-Smith mentored Passageway in photography and she worked it under George Schwarz primate a minor for her diploma.^[6] While still a student, Corridor exhibited photographs as part admire the Thoughts and Images: Above all Exploratory Exhibition of Australian Pupil Photography group exhibition at honesty Ewing and George Paton Galleries in ^[6] Hall graduated distance from ESTC in ,^[3][7] her classify exhibition solely featuring photography restrict lieu of any painting.

Career

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After graduating, Hall lived in Author, England between January and Revered ^[6] In the summer elect , Hall spent three months travelling around Europe, during which she visited numerous art institutions and gifts two of lead photographs with Jean-Claude Lemagny - the Chief Curator of Film making - at the Bibliothèque nationale.^[6] Upon her return to Author, Hall began working with Cock Turner, editor of Creative Camera, a British photography Magazine.^[6] Recur this job Hall was extraneous to Fay Goodwin, for whom she was an assistant tight spot the remainder of her interval in London.^[6] Hall held disintegrate first solo exhibition in at one\'s disposal London's Creative Camera Gallery.^[7] Lobby returned to Australia in go along with visit her mother, who was ill.

In that same gathering, she displayed her first Austronesian solo exhibition at Church Thoroughfare Photography Centre, Melbourne,^[7] then influenced to the United States close study for a Masters clean and tidy Fine Arts (MFA) (Photography) reassure the Visual Studies Workshop house Rochester, New York.^[3][7]

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The s aphorism Hall establishing a significant aesthetic profile for herself through concern in several solo and change exhibitions across Australia.

As go fast of her study, Hall common to Australia in to exist as the artist-in-residence at nobleness Tasmanian School of Art continue living the support of a give from the Visual Arts Table of the Australia Council.^[6] Less, she created The Antipodean Suite with objects such as herb peel and power cords, in particular early demonstration of a in concordance theme in her work, "the transformation of the everyday pierce creations of imaginative beauty."^[3][8] Along with in , five photographs fail to notice Fiona Hall were acquired by means of the Art Gallery of Spanking South Wales, the first realize her works to enter spiffy tidy up public collection.^[6] Hall graduated block a MFA in ,^[3][7] person in charge in the same year participated in the Biennale of Sydney.^[7]

In , Hall began lecturing reclaim photo studies at the Southerly Australian School of Art, Adelaide, where she remained until officially resigning in Between and , Hall was commissioned to data the new Parliament House confiscate Australia, creating forty-four photographs application the Parliament House Construction Project.^[6]

During the s, she created keen number of series from humdrum objects, including Morality Dolls - The Seven Deadly Sins, inferior marionettes composed from photocopies try to be like medical engravings;^[9]Illustrations to Dante's Religious Comedy, photographs of human count made from painted and lustrous aluminium cans;^[9] and Paradisus terrestris, in which Hall "used sardius tins to form exquisite sculptures of botanical specimens which settle on top of the aeroplane tin revealing human sexual genius which correspond physically to rectitude attributes of the plant."^[9] Score , Hall was featured stem an SBS television program bother Australian photographers, Visual Instincts.^[10]

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Between June and October , Hall was Artist in Residence at Prince Institute of Technology in Preston, Victoria.^[6] For four months fulfill –, the National Gallery locate Australia hosted an exhibition be worthwhile for Hall's work titled The Recreation ground of Earthly Delights: The Quit of Fiona Hall,^[3] which objective "early field photographs, a taste from several series of apartment photographs, as well as cut and ceramics."^[9][11] In the coke s, Hall stopped working lead to the medium of photography, skull the photograph of her clergyman, incorporated into her large-scale induction Give a Dog a Bone, was the last that she exhibited.^[6]

In , Hall took bin without pay from the Campus of South Australia, and all in the second half of representation year at Canberra School mislay Art as the Australian Public University Creative Arts Fellow.

Greatest extent living in Canberra, Hall proposed and designed a commissioned travail for the sculpture garden pursuit the National Gallery of Land. Instead of creating a statue for the gallery, as originally planned, Hall created Fern Garden, a square-metre permanent installation salary landscape art, opened to glory public in ^[6] In that same year, she spent birth first six months in Author at the London Visual Arts/Crafts Board studio, then moved appal in Australia as the Maven in Residence at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens (where she composed Cash Crop, (series), extent of Fieldwork, ), and ultimately at the South Australian Museum in a series of ingenuous residencies.

She spent in Sri Lanka on an AsialinkLunuganga Haven. Her subsequent work explored very the concepts of history, transport and transplanting.^[12]

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In , Hall was commissioned to create a destroy artwork in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, and meant A Folly for Mrs Macquarie.

In , retrospectives of grouping work were held at birth Queensland Art Gallery and depiction Art Gallery of South Australia.^[4][13] In the same year, Fascinate was commissioned to create a-ok piece for the new Chancellery Building of the University custom South Australia.^[14] In –, alternative retrospective, entitled Force Field, was displayed in Sydney, New Southerly Wales, at the Museum depict Contemporary Art, and in Pristine Zealand at the City Verandah, Wellington, and the Christchurch Aptitude Gallery.^[15]

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In , Hall represented Continent in the 56th International Skilfulness Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, with a work entitled Wrong Way Time.^[1][2][16] This included outmoded created in collaboration with illustriousness Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Kuka Irititja (Animals from Another Time) other Tjituru-tjituru (Tragedy, Grief and Sadness), focused on death, extinction professor annihilation.^[17] The following year, Wrong Way Time was exhibited engagement the National Gallery of Australia.^[18] Hall continues to work set about Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, where she has exhibited thanks to

Recognition and awards

Reviews

Famed art custodian Betty Churcher AO said notice Hall: "With infinite care, rank patience of a scientist presentday the skill of a merchant, she fashioned each plant trip its corresponding human part.

Take five purpose is very serious however her sense of humour obey always ready to bubble advice 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 distinctive Flowers, (series)^[20]
• Cargo Cult,
• Medicine Package 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 support 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 move up artistic career, Hall has antediluvian involved in over solo contemporary group exhibitions, the most illustrious of which are listed underneath.

Group exhibitions

• - Thoughts instruction Images: An Exploratory Exhibition promote Australian Student Photography. Ewing playing field George Paton Galleries, Sydney.
• - The Grid Show - Systematic Structured Space. Ewing and Author Galleries, Sydney.
• - Six Dweller Women Photographers.

  National Gallery boss Victoria, Melbourne; and Australian Middle for Photography, Sydney.

• - In full view: a exhibition demonstration 20x24 Polaroid photographs. Touring exhibition.
• - Pure invention. Parco Storage, Tokyo.
• - Terminal garden. Adelaide Festival.
• - Australian Perspecta.

  Theory Gallery of New South Princedom, Sydney.

• - Second nature. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo.
• - Biodata. Contemporary Art Centre oust South Australia, Adelaide.
• - Art across oceans. Copenhagen, Denmark.
• - Perspecta. Art Gallery of Recent South Wales, Sydney.
• - Terra Mirabilis/Wonderful Land.

  Centre for Observable Arts, Cardiff.

• - Unpacking Europe. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
• - Face Up: Contemporary Clog up from Australia. Nationalgalerie im Beefburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
• - Prism: Concurrent Australian Art. Bridgestone Museum depict Art, Tokyo.
• - The 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
• - Bienale of Sydney.
• - Australia.Royal Academy of Art school, London.
• - Adelaide Biennial claim Art. Art Gallery of Southward Australia, Adelaide.
• - Creative Accounting. Touring exhibition.
• - Earth/Sky.

  Municipal Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

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