Fiona Hueston

Fiona Hueston is an visual artist whose work incorporates many different disciplines, including photography, installations & sculpture. During her studies for a Masters Degree in Cross Disciplinary Art & Design at the College of Fine Arts UNSW. Fiona started to investigating the possibilities of working with multiple origami paper forms, which lead to the creation of sculptures and installations.

The Equal Hearts Project installation, featured in her first solo exhibition and won the Awesome Foundation grant, consisted of two thousand paper origami hearts. The installation was a participatory artistic petition where the general public were encouraged to write a message on a heart supporting marriage equality, each heart was then strung up and attached to a hot pink rotary washing line, an iconic symbol representing domestic married life in Australia.

Fiona starting exploring other origami forms, stacking and gluing them together to create sculptures. Her piece Circle, which consisted of four hundred fortune tellers was a finalist in the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and led to her winning her first artistic residency.

Fiona continues to develop her artistic practice in New Zealand, working mostly in sculpture and photogra...

2013 / Masters of Cross Disciplinary Arts and Design 
College of Fine Arts / University of New South Wales / Sydney/ Australia 



2008 / Photography / Professional 
New York Institute of Photography
 / New York City / United States of America

2007 / Bachelor of Arts Art History Major / 
Griffith University / Brisbane / Australia

2007 / Documentary Photography /
Australian Centre for Photography / Sydney / Australia

Group: 2018 / Artrooms Roma / The Church Palace / Rome / Italy

Group: 2017 / The Other Art Fair - New York / Brooklyn Expo Centre / New York / United States of America

Group: 2016 / 2017 / Woollahra Artist in Residence Program 2016 Group Exhibition / Double Bay Library / Sydney / Australia

Group: 2015 / Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2015 Group Exhibition / Woollahra Council Chambers / Sydney / Australia

Solo: 2014 / The Equal Hearts Project Installation / The PopUp Collective / Sydney / Australia

Group: 2014 / Edge Detection Group Exhibition / Gallery 8 / Sydney / Australia

Group: 2010 / Group Student Exhibition / National Art School / Sydney / Australia

Group: 2009 / Group Student Exhibition / National Art School / Sydney / Australia

Group: 2007 / Group Student Exhibition / Australian Centre for Photography / Sydney /Australia