Fiona Chaney

Fiona Chaney Fiona Chaney initially trained as a dancer at the Juilliard School of Performing Arts and

London School of Contemporary Dance she went on to gain a wide portfolio of performing

both on the national and international arena. In 2010 Fiona returned to her studies and was

awarded a BA(Hons) Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2018 she was awarded a

Fellowship from the Digswell Arts Trust where she currently is developing her practice.

Recent Exhibitions include-

2017 -The Masters -Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers -Monoprints Open curated by

Morgan Doyle

2018 – The Masters- Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers – Stone and Screen Open

curated by Chris Orr

2019 – The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition

2019 – Digswell Arts Open Studios

2019 – Cambridge University Open ARB Building

2019-Prizewinner at The East London Festival of Prints

2020 – Printmakers Council – ‘Time’ at the Science and Literary Institute Highgate

2020 – University of Hertfordshire First Open – St Albans Museum

2020 – Royal West Academy – from Dec 2020- March 2021

Fiona is currently developing a body of work which flows in and around geometric forms

and she uses a range of spatial exercises alike musical scales to forge her praxis of space

harmony. The Sacred Dance and Sacred Geometry, the quest to embody the spiritual in art

remains at the heart of her work. Fiona’s background knowledge of Laban notation, dance and
choreography is seminal to this work.

A parallel line made meaningful by a horizontal – a strong line by a weaker one – all discovering a meaningful relationship of opposites which become the key to order.

In the contrapunctal fugue is a system of dynamic and polar arrangements of opposing energies, one thing growing another declining a creative marriage contrast and analogy.

In parallel to this body of work Fiona also works as a printmaker and painter. Her steel plates are often emerged in streams or in woodlands
waiting for the imprint of nature’s movement to make its marks. This process can take up to eighteen months to be realised. Her work also
includes contemplative essayistic texts, poetry and prose about painting, dance, music , printmaking, time and the creative process. Fiona says of her work that, “it is autobiographical- it is a self- portrait of my gaze”.