Fiona Chandler

Fiona Chandler
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Biography:

Fiona Chandler is a water colour artist who lives in Freshwater, Sydney.  She is interested in capturing the beauty of the natural world, especially nature’s unique colours and texture.  Depicting nature at its most vulnerable. After 18 years as a designer/illustrator, in 2014, Fiona made the leap to becoming a full-time artist. Fiona’s works live with people excited by colour and nature. By working with watercolour and mixed media, Fiona creates fluidity in her work; subtle washes, bright colours, and fine lines that gently move across large pieces of paper and the canvas. The idea of decay highlights the ecological crisis, even though Fiona’s artworks appeal to the beauty of aesthetics, they can serve as a reminder to protect and love the environment we live in.

Fiona has been a finalist in the Small Things Art Prize in Woollahra, the Manly Regional Gallery, and has exhibited in group shows throughout Australia.  A former Warringah Council’s Artist in Residence, she created Harbord Public School’s first Artist in Residence programme. Fiona holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Design from the University of Technology Sydney.

Résumé:

Select Recent Exhibitions

2025 Summer Art Soirée! ‘New & Emerging Artists’, Manyung Gallery Sorrento

2024 'The Collector's Showcase', Manyung Gallery Malvern

2024 'When Content Was A Feeling', Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza

2024 Affordable Art Fair Sydney

2024 April Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza

2023 Affordable Art Fair Singapore

2023 Affordable Art Fair Melbourne

2023 ‘I Like Your Hyperbole’, Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza

2022 Affordable Art Fair Melbourne & Singapore

2022 ‘Carwash for the Soul’, Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza

2020 History Repeats, Manly Art Gallery

2020 Girt by Sea, Sydney Road Gallery (solo exhibition)

2019 Mosman Art Prize, Finalist, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2019 Touch ii, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

2019 Home, MAG&M

2019 Replay: Celebrating Five Years of the Creative Space, Northern Beaches Artist Studios

2019 Creative Space, Sydney

2018 Oil and Water Don’t Mix, Sydney Road Gallery

2018 Floating Land – The Corner Store Gallery, Orange

2018 8 x10 Show 2018, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange

2017 HUMAN: child artist response project, Manly Art Gallery

2017 NinetyFive Percent – B-SIDE, Creative Space

2017 Land, Manly Art Gallery

2016 Lethbridge 10000 Art Award, Finalist, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

2016 Reimagine, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre

 

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 cooperative artist gallery in Seaforth, Sydney

2014 Established Creatives in Conversation Series at MAG&M with Creative Women’s Circle, Sydney

 

Commissions

2021 Cross Media Arts Project, Q Station, Sydney Harbour National Park in partnership with MAG&M

Associated Exhibitions

Affordable Art Fair Sydney 2024
Royal Randwick Racecourse
13 June - 16 June, 2024
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Affordable Art Fair Singapore
F1 Pit Building, 1 Republic Boulevard, Singapore 038975
9 November - 12 November, 2023
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Affordable Art Fair Melbourne
Royal Exhibition Building
Find us at Stand F3 under the dome
31 August - 3 September, 2023
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Fiona Chandler
'I Like Your Hyperbole'

Manyung Gallery Mount Eliza
22 April - 6 May, 2023
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Affordable Art Fair Singapore
F1 Pit Building
18 November - 20 November, 2022
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Affordable Art Fair Melbourne
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
1 September - 4 September, 2022
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Fiona Chandler
'Carwash for the Soul'

Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
28 May - 12 June, 2022
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