Australian fiona hall artist biography
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Fiona Hall
palawa/pakana Land, nipaluna (Hobart)
2021
AUSLAN Translation
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Fiona Hall
Working in a wide range of media covering photography, painting, sculpture and installation, FionaHall is one of Australia's most respected and prominent contemporary artists. She examines the notions of topics such as the process of globalization, history and interaction between humans and their natural environment – perhaps best incorporated in her trophy-like, military-camouflaged sculptures of threatened or endangered species. Through her rich and prolific career spanning over four decades, Hall has exhibited her work in numerous individual and collective shows including Documenta 13, the Biennale of Sydney and the Moscow Biennale. In 2015, the Australian multidisciplinary artist represented her country at the 56th Venice Biennale, with an exhibition called Wrong Way Time and composed of about 800 objects.
Background and Early Works
Born in 1953 in Sydney, New South Wales, Fiona Hall grew up in a very supportive family – her mother Ruby Payne-Scott, an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy, and father William Holman Hall, a telephone technician, encouraged her leaning toward the arts since an early age. At age 14, Hall's mother took her to see Two Decades of American Painting show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which dev
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Fiona Hall is one of Australia’s most well-known and innovative contemporary artists. She grew up in Sydney in a family with a keen sense of enquiry; most significantly her mother was a prestigious scientist and her brother pursued a career in mathematics. Hall’s endeavours as an artist are parallel to that of a scientist; searching for understanding about humanity and the environment.
Hall works across a range of media including painting, photography, sculpture and installation. At times she uses unusual materials such as soap, sardine tins, aluminium cans, video tape, currency and beads. Hall uses these everyday objects to address contemporary issues associated with history, politics, conflict and the environment.
Occupied territory was Hall’s first work about the British colonisation of Australia. The work consists of four native and four introduced plant specimens. The four introduced species are made from red and white beads; fig, pear, acorn and peach, while the four native species angophora, banksia, Norfolk pine and Sydney Wattle are constructed from black beads and nails. The choice of beads and nails refers to the ‘gifts’ offered to Aboriginal people by colonisers including James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks.
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