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.
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