Fiona Gavino

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Biography

Fiona Gavino is an intercultural artist investigating the visual language of space, place, architecture and identity. She graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Charles Darwin University and was selected to exhibit in Hatched (2007). Gavino's art practice is featured in Hot Springs; the Northern Territory & Contemporary Australian Artists (Macmillan Art Publishing) and her work has toured nationally and internationally, in 2014 she was awarded a 3 month Asialink Residency in the Philippines to study post-colonial Filipino discourse in contemporary art and rattan furniture making techniques to apply to her sculpture practice. In 2015 she won the City of Mandurah's Eco Art Award in the Drift exhibition and held a solo exhibition In-between-spaces, at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines.

Solo Exhibitions

2015
In-between-spaces
Pasilyo Victorio Edades Gallery, Cultural Centre of the Philippines

2015
Bahalana; Journey of an Empty Cup
Fremantle Art Centre (2015), Fremantle Western Australia

2014
Bahalana; Journey of an Empty Cup
Pan Project Space, Escolta (Manila), Philippines

2014
Pixels+Fibre
with Myrto Angelouli at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia

Group Exhibitions

2014
BORDERLAND - The Entropy of Identities
Museo de Almeria & MECA Mediterraneo Centro Artistico, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada, Spain

2014
Design Insights
Yuchengco Museum, Makati, Philippines

2013
Sculpture by the Sea
Cottesloe, WA

2012
TOGA Art
Harry Chan Building, Darwin, NT

2011
A Prefix:Re
Hyogo, Japan & Western Australia Museum, Perth, WA

2011
Fiberface
Yogjarkata, Indonesia

2010
ReCoil,
Toured Nationally (Australia)

Awards

2015
Drift Installation Art Award - Eco Award Winner

Collections

Regrowth

Perspectives Shift

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Commissions

2014 - 2015
Glimpses

2012
Quaffa

2007
Dragonfly

Publications

2015
Her Journey and Our Empty Cups
Dayang Araola, Exhibition catalogue essay

2014
Pixels+Fibre
Margie West, Exhibition review, Artlink, Vol 34 Issue 2, p120

2012
Hot Springs; the Northern Territory & Contemporary Australian Artists
Daena Murray, Macmillan Art Publishing

2012
Togart Exhibition Catalogue Essay
Maurice O’Riordan , TOGA, pp7-10

2009
ReCoil: A Celebration of Fibre Art in Australia
Christiane Keller , Art Monthly Australia, No.217, pp23-28

2007
ReCoil, Exhibition Catalogue Essay
Catalogue, Artback NT Arts Touring, pp60-63

2006
Fiona Gavino
Lycia Trouton (2006), Textile Fibre Forum, No.83, pp48-49

2005
Arafura Craft Exchange
Allison Gray, Arafura Craft Exchange, Catalogue, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, pp 8-9

2005
A new cultural dialogue
Tina Burge, The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia. Volume 14. No3. pp24-25

Residencies

2014
Fremantle Art Centre Moores Building Studio Residency

2014
Asialink Residency (Philippines)

2012
Ubud, Bali
Self-funded independent residency

2012
Fremantle Art Centre Residency

2011
Awesome Arts - Looma Remote Area School

2008
Awesome Arts -Leonora School

Fiona Gavino
Fibre textiles, Installation art, Sculpture

Artist Statement

Fiona Gavino with Australian, Filipino & Maori heritage is naturally interested in and influenced by working with the methodology of fusions. Amalgamations in inter-cultural dialogues, and mixing the aesthetic of the natural/physical, the manufactured/formal and the digital/perceptual is used to punctuate her ideas working in sculpture, installation & video.