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
2021-2 Trinity Bouys Working Drawing Prize
2024-5 Trinity Bouys Drawing Prize
2025 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (second time exhibitor)
2025 Selected as one of Londons’s Time Out’s Top Ten Exhibitors for R A Summer Exhibition
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”.
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