Fi creates her work with a balanced sensitivity and connects us to how we experience life.
Pondering places, ideas and hidden histories means she creates works with feeling, taking you somewhere you didn't know you wanted to go. Fi’s work is philosophical but retains an endearing childlike quality and a hint of the whimsical.
Fi’s curiosity with 'what went before' and her ‘being in the moment‘ meditative approach has led her on many journeys, both literally and philosophically.
With her project management, curation and arts and health experience, Fi is also in her element creative site-specific pieces.
“Poetry gives me the ears to hear myself, to listen out for mother nature”. - Fi
“Creativity enables a ‘travelling’ experience, a discovery of the unfamiliar and for something magical to happen.
It is the almost ritualistic underlying processes which are important.
These visual representations of meditations are the tools by which I express realisations and enable connections. I aim to articulate creativity itself.
My practice is open and I value not being able to predict outcomes; this sense of creative freedom lets the work lead me where it wants to go, somewhere I didn’t even know I wanted to go before I got there! ”
EXHIBITIONS
2023, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2022, Art Room Gallery, Worldwide Waters Exhibition, Honourable Mention
2022, Plaid, Amsterdam
2021, 26TOZERO, Degree Art and Zero Hour
2020, Locked + Loaded virtual exhibition, Degree Art, London
2020, Nottingham Society of Artists, Imara Auction
2019, Contemporary Art Auction, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham
2019, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
2016, Déda, Derby
2015, Crafty Sparrow, Nottingham
2015, In Wind there is Time, Rufford Abbey Country Park, Solo show
2014, Since Sliced Bread, Ayscoughfee Hall, Solo Show
2014, Since Sliced Bread , Various Windmills for National Mills Weekend, Solo Show
2013, Royal Derby Hospital
2012, Beyond The Material World, International Association of Quantum Artists, York
2012, University of the Arts, Berlin
2012, Candid Arts, London
2012, Cloud Gallery, Worthing
2012, Nexus Art , Manchester
2012, Marburae Gallery, Macclesfield, Cheshire
2012, Being British, Stamford
2012, Contemporary Art Auction, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham
2011, Royal West Academy, Bristol
2011, The Cork Street Gallery, London
2011, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington
2011, Pedestrian Gallery, Leicester
2011, University of Derby commission
2011, Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire
2010, Sideshow/British Art Show, Residency at Harrington Mills Studios, Nottingham
2010, InGest, Empty Shop, Derby
2010, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington
2010, Crow Studios, Derby
2010, Nottingham Playhouse
2010, Crocus Gallery, Nottingham
2010, Synapse Festival, Derby
2004, Passing, large- scale outdoor public video installation, Nottingham
2004, Waterways, large-scale public video installation, Nottingham
2002, University of Nottingham
2001, Derby Open Finalist, Derby
OTHER
2020, Artist in Residence at Ashgate Hospice Care, Derbyshire
2015 to 2019, Curator, Royal Derby Hospital Exhibitions
2014, Management Board Member – Transported Art
2014, Royal Derby Hospital Engage Programme – Lead Artist
2013, Wirksworth Festival Co-curator of Graduate Show & Visual Arts Programme
EDUCATION
MA ADAPT (Art & Design Advanced Practice & Theories) – 2011, University of Derby
BA Honours First Class in Art & Design – 2004, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (BIAD)
Foundation in Film & Video Production – 2003, Intermedia, The Broadway, Nottingham
Foundation in Art & Design – 2001, New College, Nottingham
City and Guilds Photography - 1994, Stroud College
