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Curriculum Vitae - Fiona Cabassi
Education and Teaching
1999
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Post Graduate Diploma in Interactive Media
1988 – 1991
University of Melbourne – Institute of Education
Bachelor of Education – Visual Arts
2008 - present
Heide Museum of Modern Art – Arts Educator
2021 - present
Incinerator Art Gallery – Arts Educator
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Fancy, Fret and Filigree, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne.
2005
Swoop, Fall and Flutter, Space 39, Melbourne.
2004
Flocked, Red Gallery, Melbourne.
2001
Dotted, Gamma Space, Melbourne.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2022
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington.
2021
Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2019
Summer Salon, Fire Station Print Studio, Melbourne.
Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes, Southern Buoy Studios, Mornington.
2017
Australian Women’s Art Prize, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney.
2015
More Love Hours, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.
2014
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
2013
Paper, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee.
2012
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
2011
Paper, Scissors, Rock, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.
Hazelhurst Art Award – Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW.
Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart.
2009
The Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne.
Art with Paper, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney.
Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart.
Banyule Works on Paper Art Award, Banyule Arts Space, Melbourne.
Hazelhurst Art Award – Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW.
Darebin – La Trobe Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2007
Banyule Works on Paper Art Award, Banyule Arts Space, Melbourne.
Darebin-LaTrobe Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne.
Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart.
Hazelhurst Art Award – Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW.
Awards, Commissions and Residencies
2023
Winner of the People’s Choice Award- National Works on Paper, MPRG.
2022
Artist in Residence - Woodleigh School, Senior Campus, Mornington.
Heide Museum of Modern Art – Commission for a bespoke handmade rug for the Heide Art Babies program.
2015
Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre – Commission for window installation.
2013
On Stone, Melbourne – Commission for window installation.
2011
Heide Museum of Modern Art – Commission for paper cut installation for the Heide Store.
2009
Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize, Runners-up (work acquired).
2007
Banyule Works on Paper Art Award, Winner of acquisitive award and The People’s Choice Award.
Darebin - La Trobe Art Prize, Winner of People’s Choice Award.
Bibliography
2014
Garden, Wendy, Senior Curator MPRG, On Paper, catalogue for 2014 NWOP, pp10.
2012
Power,Liza, Paper Trail Branches Out, Age ('Life & Style' supplement),11 August 2012, pp. 26-7
2009
Dropulich, Silvia, Shilo kaleidoscope, The Voice, University of Melbourne, November 2009, pp7.
2007
Schetzer, Alana, Cut out to be a modern artist, Heidleberg and Diamond Valley Weekly, 30 October 2007, pp17
Arts editor, Theme weaves through display, Morland Pulse, 26 March, 2007, pp20
Moore, Patrick, Compelling experimentation, The Age, Sightlines Critical Guide, 26 October 2007, pp19.
Collections
Hutchins School, Hobart.
Banyule City Council Melbourne.
Private collections in Australia and overseas.