Fiona (Danish, Scottish, Kenyan) draws rich inspiration from ecosystems both human and environmental, defining her works as collaborative endeavours with the environment. Specifically, her work aims to capture how ecology can hold both fact and fiction. How land, vegetation or weather can hold feelings, metaphor and narrative. Fiona makes artworks using the natural material of a place, both to locate the work and to collaborate with it. This takes the form of making on location or gathering material to later transform into sculptures.
Fiona's dispersed childhood, of play and journeying has fostered a creative practice driven by curiosity, collaboration and imagination envisioned through ecology. In collaborating with her surroundings she fosters a connection with both the people of that place and the environment itself. She is sowing seeds and taking root in a place, as a counter to her migratory childhood.
Each of Fiona's artworks holds care and thought in how and why they are made. As she takes time to weave, sculpt or paint all to instil a sense of hope and joy. Fundamentally Fiona's artwork intends to tell stories and open exchanges about our environments.
Awards and opportunities
Selected for RSA New Contemporaries 2025
Clason-Harvie Bursary
Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Prize,
Cousins Essay Prize,
History of Art Travel Award,
Shortlisted - Astaire Art Prize,
David Laing Prize
Exhibitions
2025
Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland
Seem Both Distant and So Close, Warbling Collective, London, England
2024
Lor, Artist in residence exhibition, Loretto School, Scotland
Edinburgh Collage of Art 2024 Degree Show, Scotland
198th RSA Annual Exhibition, Scotland
Greenhouse Collective Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
Alight, ECA MAFA Exhibition, Scotland
2023
197th RSA Annual Exhibition, Scotland
Pursuit Exhibition, Edinburgh Gallery Society, Patriothall, Scotland
Insight Exhibition, ECA, Scotland
On the Spot, Third Culture Collective, Whitespace, Scotland
Frontiers Exhibition, Nairobi, Kenya
City Rat Exhibition, Cowgate, Scotland
