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Solo Projects

2021 the Dawn Club, Henry Lawson Centre, Gulgong
2020 Obsolete?, Wayout Cementa Gallery, Kandos, New South Wales
2019 Surface Tension for Future Feminist Archive Live! Wollongong City Gallery
2017 Regarding Obsolescence, Kandos Museum, Kandos New South Wales
2015 Full Flight Out West, Central West Component for Contemporary Art and Feminism, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2013 Patent Pending, a painting project, Kandos New South Wales
2011 Local Studies 3: Democratic Domain, Green Bans Art Walk project, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2010 Local Studies: Capricornia, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
  Local Studies 2: Legend and Legacy, Curator Jo Holder, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
  Local Studies: Legacy Watercolours, the Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2009 Local Studies 1: a view from Central Queensland Archives, Curator Jo Holder, Artspace Mackay Regional Art Gallery
2008 Hello Joe, Artist Project, Rockhampton City Gallery, Rockhampton
2007 Mass Movement, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2006 The Island, Caloundra City Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
2005 PatchWork, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2002 American Raptors, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2001 Threshold, Mori Galley, Sydney
2000 Rewind, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1997 1890-1910, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1996 Fragile, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1995 Close, Botanic Gardens Interpretive Centre, Rockhampton
  Port, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
1993 Mob, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Universally respected…, The Rockhampton Club University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton
1992 Honeymoon, Mitchell Library Vestibule, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
1991 O Taiti, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1990 Gauguin Suite, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Cyclopaedia, Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney
1988 The Presence of the Past, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Astronomy, Ghirgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Salon des Ciseaux I, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Salon des Ciseaux II, Studio 666, Paris, France
1986 Lure of the Grotesque, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1984 Elective Affinities, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1983 Shard, Mori Gallery, Sydney

 

Collaborations

2014 Elastic/Borracha/Elástico (2012 Timor Leste Mobile Residency Archive) Fiona MacDonald, Maria Madeira, Narelle Jubelin, Victor de Sousa, Collaborative Print Project with Printing Partners Big Fag Press
2012 Mobile Residency, an open archive project with Victor Da Sousa, Narelle Jubelin and Maria Madeira, Timor Leste
2011 Green Bans Art Walks and Exhibitions, with Jo Holder and Big Fag Press, the Cross Art Projects and First Draft Depot, Sydney
2007 Lobby, with Ricky Subritzky, Michael Schimmel Performing Arts Center, Pace University, NY
  Fold, with Ricky Subritzky, Peter Fingestin Gallery, Pace University, NY
  Spin, with Ricky Subritzky, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2000 Millennium Tympanum, with Jo Holder and Kathryn Grant – KFG Design, Sydney International Airport, Sydney
1999 Time Walk, with Kathryn Grant – KFG Design and Melanie Cariss, Campbell Parade, Bondi, Sydney

 

Curated Exhibitions

2022 Ngayirr Ngurambang: Sacred Country, Curator Aleshia Lonsdale Mudgee Art Precinct, Mudgee NSW
2020 Re/construction: Jack Mundey & the Green Bans, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
  William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria
  Particulate Matter: A fossil fuelled future? Alison Clouston & Boyd / Jacky Green / Iltja Ntjarra: Benita Clements, Ricky Connick, Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala, Gloria Pannka, Mervyn Rubuntja, Hilary Wirri, Betty Namatjira Wheeler / Fiona MacDonald Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross NSW
2019 Flow, Wollongong Art Gallery National Contemporary Watercolour Prize
  Future Feminist Archive Live! Wollongong, Curators Jo Holder, Catriona Moore, Wollongong Art Gallery
2018 Obsolete? Artist, Object, Small Museum: The Relational Museum & its Objects with Nicole Barakat, Aleshia Lonsdale and Professor Lyndall Ryan, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo and HR Gallop Gallery Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
  A Widening Gap: The Intervention, 10 Years On, Co-curators Jo Holder And Djon Mundine OAM, Counihan Gallery In Brunswick
2017 Obsolete? Artist, Object, Small Museum, Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2016 Future Feminist Archive Report, Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross NSW
2015 Winner Fremantle Art Centre Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle, WA
  Burnie Print Award Exhibition, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania
  Hazelhurst Works on Paper Prize Exhibition, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Hazelhurst NSW
  Cementa_ 15 Contemporary Art Festival, Curators Ann Finegan, Alex Wisser and Christine McMillan, Kandos
2014 Elastic / Borracha Mobile Residency: Darwin <> Sydney <> Dili, Curator Jo Holder, Chan Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
  Elastic / Borracha Mobile Residency: Darwin <> Sydney <> Dili, Curator Jo Holder and the Artists, the Cross Art Projects, Sydney
  Bimblebox: art – science – nature, Curator Beth Jackson. Initiated by Jill Sampson, National Touring exhibition
  Bimblebox 153 Birds, Curator Jill Sampson, Impress Printmakers studio & gallery and touring Queensland
2013 Cementa 13, curators Ann Finegan, Alex Wisser, Georgina Pollard, Kandos, NSW
2012 Lessons in History Vol. ii – Democracy, Curator Norene Grahame, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane
  Return to Sender, Curator Michele Helmrich, University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia, Queensland
  Feminage: the Logic of Feminist Collage Curator Jo Holder, the Cross Art Projects, Sydney
  Dissonant Visions, Curator Catherine Bennetts-Cash, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
  Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention, Curator Djon Mundine OAM, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney touring
  Occupy the Future, Curator Jo Holder, the Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2011 Twining, Robyn Djunginy, Debra Dawes, Karen Mills, Fiona MacDonald, 24 Hour Art, Darwin
2010 Curious Colony, Newcastle Region Art Gallery and SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  More Than Honeyed Words, Fiona MacDonald and Mulkun Wirrpanda, Curator Jo Holder, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2009 47, Curator Ruark Lewis, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Marrickville, Sydney
  Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Regional Galley and University Art Collections in Queensland
2008 Lines in the Sand – Botany Bay Stories from 1770, Curator Ace Bourke, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sutherland
2007 Riotous Suburbs, Curator Jo Holder, the Cross Art Projects, Sydney
2006 Dream Home, Curator Ricky Subritzky, G fineart, Washington DC, USA
  Utopia Limited, Curator Jo Holder, the Cross Arts Projects, Sydney
2005 Placard Project, Instigator Zanny Begg, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Strangely Familiar, Curator Ricky Subritzky, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney
2004 Conceptual Crochet, Curator Christopher Dean, the Cross Arts Projects, Sydney
  Home & Away: Place and Identity in Recent Australian Art, Curator Linda Michael, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2003 One Square Mile: Brisbane Boundaries, Curators Michelle Helmrich and Richard Bell, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
  Plane to Point and Line, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
  Home Sweet Home: the Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2002 Palaeographia, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2001 Federation Festival: the Australia Projects, Curator Juliana Engberg, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
  Our Place: Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art, Curator Linda Michael, Monash University at Museum of Art at Prato, Palazzo Vaj, Prato, Italy
  A Century of Collecting, Curator Nick Waterlow OAM, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney
2000 Contemporary Photo-Art from Australia, Curator Bernice Murphy, Neue Berliner Kunstverin, Berlin
1999 Black and White Artists and Cartoonists (the Most Public Art), Curators Joan Kerr and Jo Holder, National Trust S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  Glue, Curator Neil Roberts, Gallery Constantinople, Quenbeyan, NSW
1998 Fisi – Blossoming of the Waves, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Wake Naima, Curator Susan Cochrane, Ngan Jila Centre Culturel Tjibaou, Noumea, New Caledonia
  All This and Heaven Too: Adelaide Biennial, Curators Juliana Engberg and Ewen McDonald, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
  Reconciliation: an AAAR! Project, Curators Jo Holder and Ace Bourke, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1997 Rummage, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Native Title Now, a Festival of the Dreaming exhibition, National Trust S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  Field of Dreams: Message Sticks for Native Title and Reconciliation, with ANTaR The Sea of Hands, Parliament House, Canberra
1996 Photography is Dead Long Live Photography, Curator Linda Michael, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  Reservoir, Curator Ewen McDonald, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
  Hidden Treasures II: Art in Corporate Collections, Curator Anne Loxley, National Trust S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1995 Seven Histories of Australia, Curator Clare Williamson, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
  In the Company of Women, 100 years of Australian Women’s Art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth WA
  Asia & Oceania Influence, Curator Nick Waterlow, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
  The Artist’s Garden, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1994 Faciality, Curator Zara Stanhope, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
  The Aberrant Object: Women and Surrealism, Curator: Juliana Engberg, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Heidelberg, Greater Melbourne
1993 Sshhh…, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1992 The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
  The Temple of Flora, Mount Waverley City Gallery, Greater Melbourne
  Blast, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1991 Second Nature, Curator Sally Coaucaud, Sydney P3-Art and Environment, Tokyo, Japan
  Decoding the Flower, Nolan Gallery, Canberra
1990 Out of Asia, Curator Alison Carroll, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Heidelberg, Greater Melbourne
1989 In Full Sunlight, Instigator Scott Redford, Aglassofwater, Brisbane
1988 A New Generation: 1983-1988, Curator James Mollison, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  No More Blue Horizons, Flaxman Gallery, London
  Dissonances, Curator Catherine David, Espace Vendome, Paris
  The Self Portrait, Curator Christine France, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney
1987 The New Romantics, Curator Graham Sturgeon, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
  Modern Objects, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Selected Affinities, Jam Factory, Adelaide
  The Age of Collage, Curator Arthur McIntyre, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1986 The Gothic: Perversity and Its Pleasure, Curator Robyn McKenzie, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
  A First Look: Philip Morris Collection Acquisitions 1983-84, Curator James Mollison, Drill Hall, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1985 Queensland/Works 1950-1985, Curators Malcolm Enright and Nancy Underhill, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
  Australian Perspecta, Curator Ursula Prunster, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
  The Most Beautiful Show in the World, Mori Gallery, Sydney
  Sydney/Seattle, USA, Curator Kirby Casey-Lewis, Loaded Brush Showcase, Seattle, USA

 

Commissioned Art Projects

2020 Feature Image for Cementa Contemporary Art Festival, Kandos New South Wales
2019 Surface Tension for Future Feminist Archive Live! Wollongong, Wollongong City Gallery
2000 Face to Face, Australian Aboriginal Cultures Galleries, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
1998 Palimpsest: the original writing has been effaced to make room for a second, Sydney Customs House, Sydney City Council

 

Bibliography

Exhibition Essays and Catalogues

2021 Moore, Catriona. Dawn Club, Henry Lawson Centre, Gulgong
2019 Holder, Jo, Moore, Catriona. Future Feminist Archive Live! Wollongong, Wollongong Art Gallery
2018 Holder, Jo. Obsolete? Artist, Object, Small Museum: The Relational Museum & its Objects with Nicole Barakat, Aleshia Lonsdale and Professor Lyndall Ryan
2015 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award http://issuu.com/fremantleartscentre/docs/fremantle_arts_centre_print_award_2
2014 Brown, Bob, Lindquist, Stephanie, Jackson, Beth, Sampson, Jill. Bimblebox art-science-nature, Redland Art Gallery
2013 Mundine, Djon. Holder,Jo. Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention. Counihan Gallery
2012 Grahame, Norene. Lessons in History Vol. ii – Democracy, Grahame Galleries
2010 Slade, Lisa. Curious Colony, A twenty first century Wunderkammer Newcastle Region Art Gallery
  Moore, Cat and Holder, Jo. Local Studies: Legend and Legacy, Wollongong City Gallery
2009 Macaulay Bettina. Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in Queensland
  Holder, Jo. Local Studies, Artspace Mackay Regional Art Gallery & Museum
2008 Bourke, Ace. Lines in the Sand – Botany Bay Stories from 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2007 http://www.daneyalmahmood.com/macdonaldsubritzky.html
2006 http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/dreamhome/
2005 http://oj.hss.uts.edu.au/strangelyfamiliar/strangelyfamiliar.pdf
  Placard Project, Instigator Zanny Begg, Mori Gallery
2003 Helmrich, Michelle. One Square Mile, the Museum of Brisbane
  Hart, Deborah. Home Sweet Home: The Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia
2001 Coates, Rebecca. Engberg, Juliana. Federation Festival, the Australia Projects, RMIT Gallery
  Michael, Linda. Our Place: Issues of Identity in Recent Australian Art, Monash University at Museum of Art at Prato, Palazzo Vaj, Prato, Italy
2000 Murphy, Bernice. Zeitgenossiche Fotokunst aus Australien/Contemporary Photo-art from Australia, Neue Berliner Kunstverien, Berlin
1998 Kerr, Joan. Portrait in Four Parts. All This and Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennale, AGSA
1996 Michael, Linda. Photography is Dead. Long Live Photography, MCA
1996 McDonald, Ewen. Reservoir, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
1995 Williamson, Clare. Seven Histories of Australia, ACCA
  Waterlow, Nick. Asia & Oceania Influence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
1994 McKenzie, Robyn. ‘The Aberrant Object or Frigging the Fetish’, the Aberrant Object: Women Dada and Surrealism, MoMA at Heide
  Nelson, Robert. Stanhope, Zara. Faciality, Monash University Gallery
1993 Stephen, Ann and Gistitin, Carol. Universally Respected…, Central Queensland University
1992 Kerr, Joan. Honeymoon
  Bond, Anthony. The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW
  Logan, Jim. Temple of Flora, Mount Waverley City Gallery
1991 Coaucaud, Sally. Second Nature, Artspace, Sydney/P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo
1990 Carroll, Alison. Out of Asia, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Heidelberg, Greater Melbourne Losche, Diane. Lindsay, Eloise. Cyclopaedia
1988 France, Christine. The Self Portrait, David Jones Art Gallery
  Mollison, James. A New Generation: 1983-1988, National Gallery of Australia
  Holder, Jo. No More Blue Horizons, Flaxman Gallery, London
  David, Catherine. Dissonances, Espace Vendome, Paris
1987 McDonald, Ewen. Approaches to Cutting, Studio 666, Paris
  Martin, Allan. Deus Ex Machina, Mori Gallery
  Sturgeon, Graham. The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries
1985 Holder, Jo. ‘A Theory of Relativity’, Australian Perspecta, AGNSW
  Underhill, Nancy. Queensland/ Works 1950-1985, University Art Museum, University of Queensland

 

Selected Publications, Articles and Reviews

2015 Friborg, Flemming. Gauguin – The Master, the Monster and the Myth Strandberg Publishing Copenhagen
2015 Stranger, Lucy. Four are a charm at the FAC Print Award, Artist Profile 25 Sept. http://www.artistprofile.com.au/four-are-a-charm-at-the-fac-print-award/
  Bevis, Stephen. Timor team effort wins Freo prize, The West Australian, 24 Sept. https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29628917/timor-team-effort-wins-freo-prize/
  D’Anger, Jenny. A Tale of Timor Takes Out Print Award, The Fremantle Herald, 24 Sept.
2014 Sullivan, Eve. Collaboration Artlink, Summer
  Holder, Jo. Elastic, Inprint Summer
2013 Jackson, Beth. Bimblebox Art Project, Artlink Vol. 33 Issue 4 p.67
  Sampson, Jill. Bimblebox Art Project, Imprint Winter Vol. 48 No. 2 p.12
2012 Finegan, Ann. ‘Coming Soon: Big Mining and the Question of Scale’, Artlink Vol 32 No.4
2011 Gray, Stella. ‘Twinned and Twined: Karen Mills and Robyn Djunginy’, Art Monthly No. 238 April
2010 Moore, Catriona. ‘100km Artworks: Fiona MacDonald Local Studies’, Artlink Vol.30. No.4?
  Marsh, Anne. Look Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980, Macmillan 2010
2008 Periz, Ingrid. ‘Lobby, Fold, Spin’, Eyeline 65, Feb, p.55
  Schlunke Katrina. ‘Captain Cook’s Eye-patch’, Art Monthly Australia, 212, Aug, 2008, p.5
2006 Butler, Rex. ‘The Disappearing Coincidence’, Photofile 77, Autumn, p.24
  Cudlin, Jeffry. ‘Dream Home’, the Washington City Paper, July 28, p. 58
  Dawson, Jessica. ‘Painting a New Visual Vocabulary’, The Washington Post, July 22, CO2
  Kent, Rachel. ‘Strangely Familiar’, Object Magazine, Craft Council of NSW, April p. 48
2005 Glastonbury, Keri. ‘Bringing it home’, Real Time, Dec, p.70
  Creagh, Sunanda. ‘The comfort of the ordinary, but take a closer look’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 31, p. 14
  Clement, Tracey. ‘Sit-In Protest’, the Sydney Morning Herald, Metro Nov. 11–17, p. 27
  Tran Lam, Lee. ‘Paper Weight’, Lee Tran Lam. State of the Arts, July–Sept, p. 58.
2004 Kubler, Alison. ‘Brisvegas: Little city, big history’, Art Monthly Australia 169, May, p.31
2003 Holder, Jo. ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’, Art and Australia 40/4 p. 610-617
2002 Loxley, Anne. ‘From birds of prey to a stuffed cicada’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 31, p.14
2001 Coslovich, Gabriella. ‘Bringing in the Feds’, the Age – Review 7, May 9
  Best, Susan. ‘Place-making in a liminal zone’, Susan Best. Art and Australia 38/3, p.428
2000 ‘Art in Action: The Sea of Hands’, Australian Art Collector 13, July – September
  Bryson, Bill. ‘On top of the world down under’, National Geographic 198/2, Aug p.24
  O’Brien, Geraldine. ‘Maps of the heart sweeten departures’, the Sydney Morning Herald, July 24
  Kidd, Courtney. ‘The line kings’, the Sydney Morning Herald, February 22
1999 James, Bruce. ‘When the pen is mightier than the word’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 6 p.12
  ‘Speaking up for black dialects’, Photo: Chris Crerar, The Australian, Mar 14, p.5
  Holder, Jo and Kerr, Joan, ‘Past Present- The National Women’s Art Anthology’ .p.126
  Gripper, Ali. ‘The psalm of palms’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, Mar 24, p.26
  Dysart, Dinah. ‘Arthouse’, Insites, Historic Houses Trust of NSW Summer, p.7
  Kerr, Joan. Black and White Artists and Cartoonists (the Most Public Art), National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Ch.3 p.77
1998 O’Brien, Geraldine. ‘Fiona’s debut is a story on glass’, the Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 2
  Jobson, Debra. ‘Hands you must see’, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, p.13
  Trumble, Angus. ‘All this and heaven too’, Art and Australia, winter, p. 42
  Fitzgerald, Michael. ‘Tjibaou’s House of Spirits’, Time Magazine, September 14, p.56
1997 de Lorenzo, Catherine. ‘Photography Alive’, Art Asia Pacific 13, p.22
  Dokulil, Heide. ‘Sydney Customs House: Public Art Competition’, Monument 17, p.107
1996 Kerr, Joan. ‘Colonial Quotations’, Art and Australia 33/3 Autumn, p.376
  Robinson, Denise. ‘The Aberrant Object’, Agenda, Aug 1, p 23
  Alexander, George. ‘Straight Edge’ Photofile 49 Nov, p.34
  Conomos, John. ‘Occupied Territory’, Object, Craft Council of NSW, p.27
1995 McKenzie, Robyn. ‘Art tells a history story’, The Age, Sept 27, p. 18
  Holder, Jo. ’MacDonald, Cooley, Cruz: the cosmopolitan Esperanto of coffee shops’, Monument 8
1994 Fenner, Felicity. ‘Weaving black and white histories’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15 p.11A
  Symington, Fiona. ’Faciality: Beyond the face’, Photofile 43 Nov, p.33
1993 Stephen, Ann. ‘Dissembling Portraits’, Art and Australia, summer, p.282
  Helmrich, Michele. ‘Universally Respected’, Photofile 40, p.54
  Holder, Jo. ‘Universally Respected: how much of him is I’, Eyeline 22/23, summer, p.51
  Watson, Bronwyn. ‘More than a decorative show’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15, p.11
  Sullivan, Eve. ‘Beyond the white cube’, Art Monthly Australia, Mar, p.29
1992 Neville, Greg. ‘Subtle images in fine print’, The Age, Sept 19
  Barron, Sonia. ‘A varied use of botanical imagery’, The Canberra Times, Oct 31
  Preraurer, Maria. ‘Sydney Biennale’, The Australian, Dec18, p.8
1991 Teffer, Nicola. ‘Turning the tables’, West 3/1, p.26
1990 Lynn, Elwyn. ‘Emotions unmoved in mysterious ways’, The Weekend Australian, Dec 15-16 p.8
  Dellaruelle, Jacques. ‘Demystification and enlightenment’, The Sydney Review, Feb
  Annear, Judy. ‘Fiona MacDonald Elizabeth Bay House’, Art & Text 36 p.147
  McIntyre, Arthur. Contemporary Collage and Its Origins, Craftsman House
1989 Lindsay, Eloise. ‘The Collector’, Interior Architecture and Design 22, p.159
  McDonald, John. Art Coast, Los Angeles, 1/2 May Jun
  Simmons, Patricia. ‘Fiona MacDonald: the presence of the past’, Photofile, autumn
  Lindsay, Eloise. ‘The presence of the past’, Eyeline 8 p.35
1988 McDonald, John. The Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 10 p.83
  Loxley, Anne. ‘History through the artist’s eyes’, The Sun Herald, Dec 4
  Berriman, Larry. ‘No More Blue Horizons – Four Australian Artists in London’, Arts Review, Jul
1987 Watson, Bronwyn. ‘Reworking Roberts in 3-D’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 14
1986 Lynn, Elwyn. ‘Even fearsome creatures quit our foolhardy world’, The Australian, Jul 26
  Maloon, Terence. ‘Feminist’s erotic vision of masculinity’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Jun18 p.1
1985 Hansford, Pam. ‘Women raid the old to bring in the new’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 20

 

Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington
Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
Rockhampton City Art Gallery, Queensland
University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
Araluen Arts Trust, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
ArtBank, Sydney
Zurich (Aust.) Insurance, Sydney
Allens Arthur Robinson Contemporary Art Collection, Sydney
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
News Limited, London
Tjibaou Cultural Centre ADCK, Noumea, New Caledonia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Museum of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise
The Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA
Pace University, New York, USA
Cruthers Collection, Perth
Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
University of Technology, Sydney
City of Sydney Art Collection
State Library of Victoria
State Library of New South Wales
Fremantle Art Centre
Darwin City Council Collection
Benevolent Living, Rockhampton
Bayside Council, Rockdale

 

Awards

2015 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award – Elastic/Borracha/Elástico (2012 Timor Leste Mobile Residency Archive) In collaboration with Maria Madeira, Narelle Jubelin, Victor de Sousa
2009 Artist in Residence Wollongong City Gallery
2007 New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council
2006 The Key to Pace University, NY, USA for Services to International Relations
2000 New Work Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council
1999 NSW Human Rights Commission Award to ANTaR for Sea of Hands
1994 Fellowship, Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council
1993 Artist in Residence University of Central Queensland

 

Current Roles

2022 Board Member Orana Arts
2014 Curator Kandos Museum

 

Education

2010 Master of Arts, College of Fine Art UNSW
1979 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, South Australian School of Art
1976 Diploma of Fine Arts, College of Art, Brisbane