EDUCATION

2018 PHD Doctor of Philosophy, QCA, Griffiths University, QLD.
2000 Master of Arts, Southern Cross University, NSW.
1988 Graduate Diploma, Centre for the Arts, Tasmania.
1987 Bachelor of Arts, University of New England, NSW.


EMPLOYMENT, CURATORSHIP, MENTORSHIP and SUPERVISION


2024 Workshop Masterclass “No Ordinary Days”, Naturemuse Ceramic Studio, Doonan, Australia

2024 Artist Mentor, Fiona Cuthbert O’Meara recipient of RADF grant, Australia

2022-Ongoing Founder & Curator CasCaDas ArtSpace

2023 Guest Tutor and masters Supervisor - Institut für Künstlerische Keramik und Glas. Rheinstraße 80, D-56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany www.hs-koblenz.de/kunst

2020-2023 Independent scholar/researcher, artist, curator and independent art space manager (Barcelona)

2004-19 Lecturer 3D, Sculpture and Spatial Practices, School of Art and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia

2019 25/25. Curator of an exhibition celebrating 25 years of arts education at Southern Cross University 1994-2018. Exhibition of 85 works over three campuses.

2012-2018 Exchange UB, supervision of 10 overseas students a year, visiting and carrying out research projects in Barcelona. Visiting Fellow, UB. Student work published in the CEAT online journals Coolabah (https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/index) and Blue Gum (http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/Blue_Gum/BlueGumMainpage.html).

2018 EASA sculpture show ‘Otherings’. Participant. Organised by the Observatory: Australian Studies Centre for the European Association for Studies of Australia. Biennial Conference "Nationalism Old and New: Europe, Australia and Their Others," at the Faculty of Letters, University of Barcelona, 17-19 January 2018. Exhibition catalogue available at https://easa2018barcelona.wordpress.com/about/

2016 Ceramic Perspectives. 12 Sep to 11 Oct. in the international ceramics exhibition Eventual Spaces, organised by the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) in Barcelona, Spain. This exhibition is integrated into the 47th General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC). Part of 13-head Australian representation with inclusion of own work.

2013-2018 Curator, Bachelor of Art and Design Gallery Space at Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW.


RECENT WORKSHOPS

2023 Delivery of a three-week workshop at Clay Kitchen Portugal, titled Earthly Encounters in March.
2023 A conversation in Contemporary Clay. Big Chats, November 30 , Southern Queensland Art Alliance.
2023 Master class, ‘Contemporary Approaches to Clay’ - Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance, QLD Australia 1 December.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Out of the Shadows, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2016 Imperfect Friends, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2013 Indefinite Densities, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2011 Just Act Natural Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2008 Weather or Not, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
2006 Graft, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
2005 Snoring for your Smile, Michael Fox Gallery, Brisbane.
2004 Plumb-line, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
2003 As Long As There Is ...., Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW.
2002 Suspended Sigh, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
2001 Wholly Gestures, Despard Gallery, Hobart.
2001 Coming To Distance, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Eventual Body Spaces, Southern Cross University Art Museum, NSW.
1999 Render Me Senseless, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
1997 Heel, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
1996 Migration Of The Mawkish, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
1995 Portage, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
1993 Dry Lips, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
1992 Endlessly In One Motion Depart, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart.
1991 Complaints Of The Shadow, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
1990 This Tenuous Earth, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
1989 Room by Room, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW.
1988 Ceramic Sculpture, Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart.

COLLABORATIONS

2018


2013

2012

  • Clay Noir, collaborative film project, Raimond De Weerdt and Fiona Fell http://www.vimeo.com/28741973, selected for the 7th Festival Du Film Sur L’argile et le Verre. Also screened at the Design Junction in London, held during the London Design Festival.

2011

  • Reload one Night Stack, Grafton Regional Gallery 2010 Outskirts of Flame, a community collaboration in conjunction with the Broken Hill art exchange shape program.

  • Select and Save, a collaboration with Dr. Lyndall Adams – Tweed River Gallery, New South Wales.

2007

  • Before You Go, collaboration, original works and studio artifacts, Gary Jolley-Fiona Fell, Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, New South Wales.

  • No Glaze No Glory, collaboration Raimond De Weerdt, a large scale digital projection, Powerhouse, Brisbane, QLD.

2006

  • Pause/Play, collaboration with Lyndall Adams consisting of 16 works combining digital imagery with ceramic figurative sculptures, Grafton Regional Gallery The Damned, collaboration, an installation of video, photographs and ceramic sculptures, Lismore Regional Gallery.

2002

  • Collaboration think tank, Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane.

1998

  • Performance collaboration with Denise Urehara (performance artist, Los Angeles), 18th St. Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California, USA.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • Manifesta del Raval, Barcelona

2019

  • 25/25: Celebrating 25 years of arts education at Southern Cross University 1994-2018.

  • Enucleo, as part of the Australian Ceramics Triennale showing from the 30th of April 2019 until the 19th of May 2019 at Rosny Farm, Hobart. Curated by Serena Rosevear. Featuring: Dr Fiona Fell, Penny Byrne, Ebony Russell, Pie Bolton, Samantha Dennis and Arun Sharma.

2018

  • Otherings, Curating the art show accompanying the https://easa2018barcelona.wordpress.com/ EASA Biennial Conference "Nationalism Old and New: Europe, Australia and Their Others," organised by the Observatory: Australian Studies Centre for the European Association for Studies of Australia at the Faculty of Letters, University of Barcelona, 17-19 January 2018. Exhibition catalogue available at https://easa2018barcelona.wordpress.com/about/

2016

  • Ceramic Perspectives 12 September to 11 October 2016. Curating the 13-head Australian representation in the international ceramics exhibition Eventual Spaces, organised by the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) in Barcelona, Spain,. This exhibition is integrated into the 47th General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) from 12 to 16 September 2016 in Barcelona. Participation besides curation with one significant work.

  • Metal Thread and Mud, Watters Gallery group sculpture exhibition in October featured: Paul Bacon, Roger Crawford, Brian Doar, Fiona Fell, Robin Greer, Catherine Hearse, Ian Howard, Noel Hutchison, Robert Klippel, Leo Loomans, Robert Jenyns, Glenn Murray, Robert Parr, James Rogers and Paul Selwood.

  • The War show, Group show Watters Gallery, Sydney, November/December.

  • Heads, Watters Gallery, Sydney.

2014

  • Watershed Sculpture Exhibition. University of Barcelona.

  • Four Australian Ceramic Artists, Tong-In Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

  • The course of objects: the fine lines of inquiry, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, NSW.

2013

  • The Fuping Group. Sturt Gallery, Mittagong exhibition after a residency 2006-07 China an exhibition of ceramic artists from Australia and New Zealand, Australasian Museum in Fuping, China

  • Our House, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 19/7-25/8/13. 2012 Brown Street Studios, as part of the accompanying exhibition for Positive Loop, a conference on collaborative practices, West End, Brisbane.

2012

  • Narrative Knot, a curated exhibition by Gerry Wedd of 23 Australian ceramic artists, Manly Art Gallery, NSW.

2011

  • Frank’s Flat, Frank Watters collection, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW.

  • Lyndall Adams and Fiona Fell: Reload: One night stack, Grafton Regional Gallery.

2010

  • Australasian artists at FLICAM, Fuping, China.

  • Melbourne Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Art Month Sydney, Watters Gallery Sydney.

  • Lyndall Adams and Fiona Fell, Select and Save, 25 June-8 Aug, Tweed Regional Gallery.

  • Watters Gallery Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney.

2009

  • Crossfire. Australian National Ceramic Triennale, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • In Good Company. Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne.

  • Easterly Edge. Fusions Gallery, Brisbane.

  • Sculpture Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • White Heat Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney Crossfire, part of the Australian National Ceramic Triennale, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • Fuping – In Good Company, Skepsi on Swanston.

  • A curated exhibition by NZ artist John Parker, Australasian artists working in Fuping at FLICAM.

  • China residency. Melbourne Contribution 3 works shown at Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

  • Easterly Edge, Fusions Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.

2008

  • Small Sculpture, Legge Gallery, From Mao to Now, Newington Amory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney.

  • Salute: A Salute to Australian Ceramics: An Invitational Exhibition curated by Janet Mansfield, Fusions, Brisbane.

  • Melbourne Art Fair 08 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

2007

  • Convictions, University of Astronautics and Aeronautics, Nanjing, China Australasian Museum, Fu Li Ceramic Art Museum, Fuping, Shaanxi Province, China.

  • Opening Exhibition at Fu Li Ceramic Art Museum FLICAM, China.

  • The Edge, New South Wales ceramic artists, Verge Conference-Convention Centre, Brisbane.

2006

  • Group Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Kiln, The Delmar Gallery, Sydney.

  • Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

  • No Glaze No Glory / collaboration Raimond De Weerdt, Powerhouse, Brisbane.

  • Before You Go / collaboration with Gary Jolley, Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby.

  • The Edge, NSW Ceramic Artists, Verge Conference, Convention Centre, Brisbane.

  • Collaboration with Lyndall Adams-Pause/Play, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton.

2005

  • Sculpture 2005, Legge Gallery,Sydney.

  • Reflexions, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW.

2004

  • Voyage of the Underwhelmed, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

2003

  • Figurative Sculpture, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • LEGS, eleven Ceramic Art, Sydney Summer Show Legge Gallery.

2002

  • Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

  • Less is More, Less is a Bore,Brisbane City Gallery, Queensland.

  • Legge Gallery Summer Show, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

2001

  • A Suburb Called Millennium Downs with Brian Doar and Kate Dunn, Object Gallery, Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Customs House, Sydney Sculpture.

2000

  • Ten Years Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

  • 11th Summer Exhibition, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

1999

  • 10th Summer Exhibition, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

  • Something Sexy on Pico, Jennifer Joyce Gallery, Santa Monica, USA.

  • Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, USA.

1997

  • Home Brand, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney NSW.

  • No Holds Barred, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Mad, Bad, Woman. Out Of The Void, Queensland Art Gallery.

  • 32nd Festival of Fisher’s Ghost, Campbelltown City Art Gallery.

1996

  • Mellow Down Easy, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

  • Wedge, Beaver Gallery, Canberra ACT.

1995

  • Delinquent Angel Australian Historical, Aboriginal and Contemporary Ceramics, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Feanza, Italy; on tour Chicago; Japan. Touring Australia 1996- 1997: Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery Darwin; Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland; Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Old Treasury Building, Melbourne.

1994

  • Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

  • International Ceramic Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.

1993

  • Tempest - Stormy Works, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • Ten large scale works, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • The 30th Anniversary Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Art Gallery.

1992

  • Thisness, Legge Gallery Fishers Ghost Awards, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales.

  • Works from Stock and Studio, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

  • The Max Watters’ Collection, Muswellbrook Art Gallery, New South Wales.

1991

  • 6th National Ceramic Conference, Griffith University, Queensland.

  • Primitive Concepts - The Four Elements, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Maitland City Art Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery.

  • Reference Points, New Australian Acquisitions In Context, Queensland Art Gallery.

1990

  • The Cow Show, Legge Gallery National Ceramic Award Canberra School of Art Gallery 1990 Shifting Ground, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Legge Gallery.

  • Preview, Watters Gallery, Sydney.

1989

  • Ceramic Sculpture, Grafton Regional Gallery.

  • New South Wales Bravura, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW.

1988

  • Graduate Diploma Exhibition, Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart.

1986

  • The Flinders Ranges Show, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Fell, Fiona & David Roussell 2024. ‘Becoming a work of art’ revisited: Ecologies of collaboration in tertiary visual arts education1 Source: International Journal of Education Through Art 20, pp 27 - 49 (2024) Mar 2024

  • Fell, Fiona & David Roussell 2016. “Becoming a Work of Art: Collaboration, materiality and posthumanism in visual arts education”, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eta.14.1.91_1

  • Fell, Fiona 2016. “Clay's Anatomy: Sculpted, Scanned, Screened”, paper presented at the Stepping Up congress, section New Technologies, The Australian Ceramics Triennale, Canberra 9-11 July 2015, to be published in Conference Proceedings at http://www.australianceramicstriennale.com.au/2015/.

  • Fell, Fiona 2015. “External and Internal Topographies: Art on the Uncanny Limits of Scan Technology” Transformations 26, 15 pp. http://www.transformationsjournal.org.

  • Fell, Fiona, 2014. “Beyond My Skin: Medical Scanning and Imaging Technologies and the Spectral Interior of Ceramic Sculpture”. Studio Research 2, July, pp. 56-65.

  • Fell, Fiona, 2012. “Collaborative interventions into the subversive field of clay”, conference proceedings, non-refereed paper online, Subversive Clay conference records, Australian National Ceramics Triennale Adelaide, September.

  • Fell, Fiona, 2011. “Process and Meaning. From One Place to Another: Lugging Molecules”. Journal of Australian Ceramics, pp. 72-74.

  • Fell, Fiona, 2011. “Ceramics in collaboration: ceramics, plastic and digital media.” Craft Australia.

  • Legge, Sonia 2009. “This Tenuous Earth” [Review] Ceramic Art & Perception issue 78, pp77-81.

  • Fell, Fiona 2009. “Collaboration as a Design Tool”, paper presented at Australian National Ceramics Triennale, published in Celsius nr 1, Sydney College of Arts, 2009. Refereed journal. http://www.usyd.edu.au/sca/pdfs/research/Celsius_Issue_1.pdf

  • Fell, Fiona, 2008. “Eventual BodieSpaces”. Interpreting Ceramics, International online journal, Issue 8, theme: Fragmentation of the Figure: http://www.uwic.ac.uk/icrc/issue008/articles/07.htm

  • Fell, Fiona, 2007. “Video feedback. A practical tool for student critique and assessment”. National Forum of Studio Teaching Assessment, with the patronage of the Australian Teaching and Learning Council: Sydney University, NSW: http://www.studioteaching.org/?page=publications.

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND CONFERENCES

2021 Mud Matters https://www.ncecagtf.com/educational Artists Dr Fiona Fell & Jonathan Mess in conversation with Dr Wendy Gers in a professional webinar focusing on developing environmentally thoughtful ceramic practices

2020 The European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk, Netherlands.

2019 Neceaca, USA, Green Corps representative with Dr. Wendy Gers

2016 Watershed conference. University of Barcelona

2011-12 Golden Gate Pottery, Pondicherry, India.

2010-11 Residency at SODA, Fremantle, Sculptural Objects and Design Australia.

2010 Broken Hill Art Exchange, Broken Hill, New South Wales.

2007 Presenter, Education Panel, National Ceramic Conference, Gulgong.

2006 International Residency, Fuping, China, Australia/China Council grant.

2005 Presenter, Fragmentation conference, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.

2004 Presenter, Ceramic Symposium, Innate Perspectives, Grafton Regional Gallery 2003 NSW Ministry of the Arts, Gunnery Studio, Sydney.

2002 Collaboration, Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane.

2000 Craftmark accredited, craft @ work program Craft Australia.

1998 Project Development Grant – Overseas studio V.A.C.B., Los Angeles, USA. Guest International Artist, NCEACA, Texas, USA. Guest International Artist/Presenter, CACA, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, USA.

1997 International Guest Artist Toki City Gifu Prefecture, Japan, 3 months.

1996 Project Development Grant - Los Angeles Studio Australia Council.

1994 Fishers Ghost Ceramic Award Campbelltown City Art Gallery 1991 Project Development Grant V.A.C.B Nine Ceramic Artists.

1991 Project Development Grant V.A.C.B Nine Ceramic Artists

1988 Amnesty International Encouragement Award Hobart.

1987 Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education College Medal.

MEMBERSHIP


COLLECTIONS

  • National Gallery of Australia ACT.

  • Bendigo Regional Gallery, Victoria.

  • FLICAM, Australasian Museum, Fuping China.

  • Cera Techno, Toki City, Japan.

  • 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, USA.

  • Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD.

  • University of Western Sydney, NSW and Campbelltown City Art Gallery Sydney.

  • Power House Museum, Sydney, NSW.

  • Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.

  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.

  • Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW.