Fionna Madigan
 

A fertile zone between abstraction and realism is where I like to work; where scale is ambiguous, where the macro and micro slide in and out of awareness. I commence with compositional goals and encourage random occurrences. Improvisation and transience are integral concepts to my creative endeavours. 

I am interested in the experience of perception; what happens when we look at something; the way our bodies and visual cortex metabolise and interpret information.

I like to keep the wall between what we know and what we don’t know, permeable. I like to play in the space between what we can control and what we can’t.

Recent highlights include: Mayoral Award 2019 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Eltham, Victoria; finalist 2019 Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, Tasmania; first prize, Fairfield FPS exhibition, Fairfield, Victoria; finalist 2020 Adelaide Parklands art prize; finalist, Boynes International Emerging Artist Award 2020; Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial 2020/ 2021, Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Award 2022, Lethbridge Small Piece Award 2022, Westend art space (online platform)