Monochrome #5 - Abstract Original Ink Drawing Artwork Drawing

Fiona Hueston is an visual artist whose work incorporates many different disciplines, including photography, installations & sculpture. During her studies for a Masters Degree in Cross Disciplinary Art & Design at the College of Fine Arts UNSW. Fiona started to investigating the possibilities of working with multiple origami paper forms, which lead to the creation of sculptures and installations. The Equal Hearts Project installation, featured in her first solo exhibition and won the Awesome Foundation grant, consisted of two thousand paper origami hearts. The installation was a participatory artistic petition where the general public were encouraged to write a message on a heart supporting marriage equality, each heart was then strung up and attached to a hot pink rotary washing line, an iconic symbol representing domestic married life in Australia. Fiona starting exploring other origami forms, stacking and gluing them together to create sculptures. Her piece Circle, which consisted of four hundred fortune tellers was a finalist in the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and led to her winning her first artistic residency. Fiona continues to develop her artistic practice in Paris, France, working mostly in sculpture and photography and has recently exhibited at The Other Art Fair in New York & is will be exhibiting at the ArtRooms Fair in Rome 2-4 March 2018.