Fiona Hueston

Fiona Hueston

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About Fiona Hueston

Fiona Hueston is an visual artist born in New Zealand, who has lived and worked in Australia and is currently living and working in Paris. Her 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, Sydney, Australia, 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 Paris, France, working mostly in sculpture and photography and has recently exhibited at The Other Art Fair in New York & is will be exhibiting at the ArtRooms Fair in Rome 2-4 March 2018.

Education:

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

Events:

Award: 2016 / Artist in Residence Program 2016 / Woollahra Municipal Council / Sydney / Australia

Publication: 2016 / The Art of Politics and Artists in Residence Interview / Eastside FM 89.7 / Radio Station / Sydney / Australia

Charity Event Auction: 2016 / Save the Box / Vogue Sculpture / Sydney / Australia

Award: 2015 / Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Finalist / Sydney / Australia

Publication: 2015 / Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalists announced / Art Almanac /Website / Sydney / Australia

Publication: 2016 / From Paddo to Paris / The Sun Herald / Newspaper / Sydney / Australia

Publication: 2016 / Artist lists apartment / Wentworth Courier / Newspaper / Sydney / Australia

Publication: 2015 / Artist hopes for good fortune from sculpture / Wentworth Courier /Newspaper / Sydney / Australia

Award: 2014 / Awesome Foundation Grant / Awesome Foundation / Sydney / Australia

Publication: 2014 / Opera with a twist/ The Blue Mountains Gazette / Newspaper / Sydney / Australia

Publication: 2012 / COFA Annual 2012 / College of the Fine Arts University New South Wales / Website/ Sydney / Australia

Exhibitions:

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