Posts by Fiona Robertson
more than a feeling…
Our lives, work and experiences are increasingly mediated – and distorted – by a digital world of images stripped of their materiality. In response to this Fiona Robertson fore fronts the tactile, the handmade and the intuitive. Her subject-matter is drawn from the wanderings of the unconscious and subconscious, exploring the transient impressions of memories and dreams. This new…
Read MoreETCHINGS
Etching Coming soon!
Read MoreINSIDE JOB: Memories of an Art School
Available @https://goodpress.co.uk/products/inside-job-memories-of-an-art-school-by-fiona-robertson?_pos=1&_sid=4d3794934&_ss=r A5, 120 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2024 Memories of a lifetime spent in an Art School are captured and fictionalised here in 100 drawings. With this bookwork, Fiona Robertson uses humour and absurdity to explore ideas of memory and to interrogate her precarious self-identification with the role of artist…
Read Moretit-bits catalogue
Available @ rhttps://goodpress.co.uk/products/tit-bits-by-fiona-robertson?_pos=2&_sid=4d3794934&_ss=r TIT-BITS by Fiona Robertson 190 x 260mm, 64 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2024 This book is a catalogue of the exhibition tit-bits held at South Block, Glasgow in November 2023. It is prefaced by Carl Lavery’s essay Bits and Pieces: Fiona Robertson, the Grotesque and the Dave Clark Five. The…
Read MoreSALTHOUSE Exhibition & In-Conversation
The exhibition is a show cases Fiona Robertson’s latest film work SALTHOUSE (2023) Press Release SALTHOUSE takes place in two distinct but connected settings. The first is an abandoned Salthouse at Prestwick beach on the west coast of Scotland: semi-rural, post-industrial, intertwined with the natural world yet apart from it. The second is in the corridors of the McLellan…
Read Moretit-bits – solo exhibition opening on 17th November 2023.
tit-bits An Exhibition of Drawings and Sculptures by Fiona Robertson tit-bits… a pleasing bit of something, a morsel, this and that; a title borrowed from the infamous, though shortlived British magazine of the 1880s, which collated for its readers a selection of informative snippets, jokes, and stories. To the millions who read them each week, these tit-bits were…
Read More‘The cook, the cupboard and Joan of Arc’ screened at RSA Edinburgh
‘The cook, the cupboard, and Joan of Arc” was screened as part of the Cutlog selection for the SSA annual Exhibition at the RSA galleries in Edinburgh.The Exhibition runs from31 October – 23 November 2021.
Read MorePretty Ugly Exhibition
I exhibited a small-scale sculpture in this wonderful group Exhibition. Pretty Ugly ExhibitionExhibition dates: Wed 12th May to Thu 20th May 2021, 11am to 6pm Location: SaltSpace Gallery, 270 High Street, Glasgow G4 0QT Opening Night: Fri 14th May 6 – 9.30pm Performances by: FemmeCastratrice & Freya Pellie & Marie Williamson Live music: Xica (aka Dr. Jessica…
Read MoreMAKE SPACE
Excited to be part of Make Space new work commisioned by Catherine Wheels Theatre Company. I am making costumes for Katrine Turner’s new covid friendly show for primary school age children”The Climate Crisis cannot be Cancelled’ “https://www.catherinewheels.co.uk/news/Make-Space-The-Final-Recipients/120
Read MoreChina Exhibition
A selection of my collaged printswere recently shown at Luxun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang as part of ‘Sharing A View. Contemporary Art From Glasgow’. The exhibition moves to the second venue at Tsinghua University, Beijing on 15 November and then in 2021 it tours to two other galleries in Guangzhou and Chongqing.
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