FIONA CHANDLER
MODERN LOVE
Fiona Chandler is a watercolour artist with an interest in capturing the beauty of the natural world, specifically nature’s colours & texture. She depicts nature at its most vulnerable. She has been Warringah Council’s Artist in Residence, Artist in Residence Q station 2020 and created Harbord Public School’s first Artist in Residence programme. She established the Conversations with Creative Women series in conjunction with the Creative Women’s Circle in Melbourne. In addition to teaching Watercolour at The School in Rosebery, Fiona has been a finalist in the Small Things Art Prize in Woollahra, Mosman Art Prize, Manly Regional Gallery and has exhibited in group shows throughout Australia. Fiona Has had 2 solo shows to date both sold out on opening. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Masters in Design.
100 x 100cm Watercolour on Canvas $2995
100 x 100cm Watercolour on Canvas $2995
Fiona Chandler
Education
2001 Masters of Design, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
1994 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), The University of Newcastle, NSW
Residencies
2020 Artist in Residence, Q Station (formerly North Head Quarantine Station) in partnership
with Manly Art Gallery and Museum (MAG&M), Sydney
2014 Artist in Residence, Warringah Creative Space, Sydney
Initiatives
2017 Co-Founded Sydney Road Gallery, a co-operative artist gallery in Seaforth, Sydney
2014 Established Creatives in Conversation Series at MAG&M with Creative Womens Circle, Sydney
Selected shows
2021-20 History Repeats, Jo Neville, Julie Paterson and Fiona Chandler, MAG&M, 4 Dec 2020 –
14 Feb 2021
2020 Girt by Sea, Sydney Road Gallery (solo exhibition), 10 Sep – 4 Oct
2019 Mosman Art Prize, Finalist, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 11 Sep – 27 Oct
Touch ii, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, 1 – 12 Aug
Home, MAG&M, 25 Oct – 1 Dec
Replay: Celebrating Five Years of the Creative Space, Northern Beaches Artist Studios,
Creative Space, Sydney, 30 Aug – 22 Sep
2018 Oil and Water Don’t Mix, Sydney Road Gallery (solo exhibition), 30 Aug – 22 Sep
Floating Land – Fiona Chandler and Sarah Montgomery, The Corner Store Gallery
(TCSG), Orange, NSW
2017 HUMAN: child artist response project, MAG&M, 7 Apr – 27 May
8 x10 Show 2018, TCSG, Orange, NSW, 1 – 8 Feb
NinetyFive Percent – B-SIDE, Creative Space, 8 Jun
Land, MAG&M, 3 Nov – 3 Dec
2016 Lethbridge 10000 Art Award, Finalist, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, 11 – 19 June
Reimagine, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, April
Conversations in Colour – Fiona Chandler and Shani Nottingham, TCSG, 13 – 30 Oct
Ever Changing, The Colour Trap Gallery, Sydney
2015 Lethbridge 10000 Art Award, Finalist, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, 13 – 28 June
Reimagine, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Sydney, April
Forage – Sarah Montgomery and Fiona Chandler, Saint Cloche, Sydney, Oct
Little Things (now Little Things Art Prize), Saint Cloche, Sydney, 5 – 13 Sep
Group Shows
2019 -17 Exhibited in various shows including themed, group and / or solo, Sydney Road Gallery,
Sydney
2017 Linden Postcard Show, presented by Linden New Art at Domain House, Melbourne,
10 Nov 17 – 12 Jan 18
Mini Solo, Platform 72, Sydney
2016 Group Show, Paper Pear, Wagga Wagga, NSW, July
Twelve – The Koskela Annual Exhibition, Koskela, Sydney, 12 Nov – 24 Dec
Art/Vert, Saint Cloche Gallery (now Saint Cloche), Sydney, 2 – 8 Feb (Curated by Amber
Creswell Bell)
2015 Just A Second, Print Exchange, Brooklyn Art Library New York, USA
New Batch, Platform 72, Sydney