CURRICULUM VITAE
FIONA MEGAN HALSE
DATE OF BIRTH: 2 August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH: Sydney, Australia
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
2012 - 2013
Graduate Certificate in Arts and Entertainment Management, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, Australia
1993-1996
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Monash University,
Sub-Faculty of Art and Design, Faculty of Arts, Australia
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
2021 - 2022
Art Teacher - Box Hill Tafe, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2017 - 2019
Sessional Visual Arts Lecturer, Latrobe University, Masters of Teaching, Faculty of Education, Burwood, VIC, Australia
2016 -2017
Sessional Visual Arts Lecturer, Deakin University, Bachelor of Teaching, Faculty of Education, VIC, Australia
2013 - 2019
Sessional Visual Arts Lecturer, La Trobe University, Bachelor of Teaching, Faculty of Education, VIC, Australia
2013 - 2014
SRS Studios Lead Artist, Arts Access Victoria
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
2014
Editorial Team Member, La Trobe University, 'Revolutionizing Arts Education in K-12 Classrooms through Technological Integration'. IGI Global.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023
Fiona Halse: BMG, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2021
Where the Sand meets the Sea and the Sun, BMG, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2019
Fiona Halse, ‘ Black is a Force’, BMG, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2018
Fiona Halse, Factory 49, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017
‘Allegory of Spring: Fiona Halse’, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC Australia
2017
Fiona Halse, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Australia
2010
Fiona Halse, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Australia
2005
Fiona Halse- Recent Work, Red Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2002
Fiona Halse- Recent Work, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1998
Fiona Halse - Recent Drawings, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITION:
2023
2023
Visions II, Gallery Elysium, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
Hue and Cry Art Award, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Tatiara Art Prize, Walkway Gallery, Bordertown, SA, Australia
Omnia Art Prize, St Kevin’s College, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Just ideas, Clinton Cross Gallery, QLD, Australia
2021
Of Colour and Light, ( Biennial) Victorian Women Abstract Artists, West End Art Space, VIC, Australia
2020
Winter Group Exhibition, BMGArt Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Layers of Time, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC Australia
Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW, Australia
Black and White Exhibition, Clinton Cross Gallery, QLD, Australia
Summer Stockroom Exhibition, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC Australia
2019
EGAG WRAP 2019 Small Artwork Prize, East Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC, Australia
Group Exhibition ( Friends & Family), Daine Singer, VIC, Australia
Summer Stockroom Exhibition, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Abstract Salon ( curated by Langford 120 & Wilma Tabacco), Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Patterns of Influence : Artists who Teach, The Painting Centre, New York ( curated by Andrea Kantrowitz, Sue Collier, Barbara Laube)
White on White: Anna Caione and Fiona Halse, West End Art Space, VIC Australia
Poetic Symbol, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC Australia
2018
Support18, Five Walls, Footscray, Melbourne, VIC, Australia ( curated by Aaron Martin)
Greenway Art Prize, Art Est. Art School, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW, Australia
Tidal 18, Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
Of Colour and Light, Victorian Women Abstract Artists, West End Art Space, VIC, Australia (curated by Anna Prifti)
St Kevin’s College Art Show, Melbourne Australia
Annual group exhibition ( small works ), Factory 49, Sydney, NSW, Australia
June Stockroom Exhibition, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC Australia
Abstraction 2018, Langford 120 Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Small Works Applicant Online Exhibition 2018, Trestle Gallery, New York , USA
2017
Summer Exhibition, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC Australia
Empathy, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, VIC, Australia
2016
Referential Berlin, Institut Für Alles Mögliche, ( I-A-M), Zentrale, Berlin, Germany
2012
Grounds, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, VIC, Australia
Abstraction, Subject Matter Space, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
2011
Prometheus Art Award, QLD, Australia
Selected Sites 1, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, VIC, Australia
2010
Stanthorpe Art Festival, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2009
Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, Armadale, VIC, Australia
Abstraction, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, VIC Australia
2008
Works on Paper, Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery, VIC, Australia
2007
New Days, Toyota Gallery, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2005
Prometheus Art Award, QLD, Australia
Small Painting Prize, Soda Gallery, NSW, Australia
2004
6 Young Artists, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Under 30,Newspace Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2001
Festival of Drawing, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, VIC, Australia ( Curated by Geoff Dupree)
Nord-Sud, Fiona Halse and Jason Haufe, gammaSPACE, VIC, Australia
Paperwork, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne,VIC, Australia
2000
Memory, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland, VIC, Australia ( curated by Shaun Wilson)
Paperwork, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1999
Charcoal Sea, Chiara Goya Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Metaphor & Configuration, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC, Australia
1998
Mornington Peninsula National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC, Australia
A Taste in Art-in Support of Community Aid Abroad, Sotheby’s, VIC, Australia
1996
Drawing from the Visible - New Artists, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC, Australia ( Curated by Geoff Dupree and Godwin Bradbeer)
AWARDS & PRIZES:
2006
Can Serrat International Art Centre, Support Stipend, Spain
1995
Monash University Drawing Prize
1994
Monash University Drawing Prize
1993
Ella Donald Memorial Scholarship
GRANTS:
2020
National Assistance Program for the Arts, Sidney Myer Fund and The Myer Foundation
2010
Melton Shire Council, Community Assistance and Sponsorship Program
1998
Ian Potter Foundation Cultural Trust
RESIDENCIES:
2016
Fellini Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016
Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Zentrale, Berlin, Germany
2010
Point B, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2006
Can Serrat International Art Centre, Montserrat, El Bruc, Spain
OTHER EDUCATION:
2014
Teaching Artist Conference, Arts Play, Melbourne
2010
Kathy Carraccio - Collage Intensive, New York, USA
1999
New York School Drawing Marathon, Adelaide
PRESENTATIONS:
2020
Of Colour and Light Panel discussion with artists Veronica Caven-Aldous, Jennifer Goodman, Fiona Halse, Anne Hastie, Wendy Kelly,Stephania Leigh, Kerrie Warren ( facilitated by Danielle McCarthy and Caroline Philips ( Women’s Art Register) hosted by Women’s Art Register and West End Art Space
2019
Artist talk and Q&A, ( moderated by Christopher Orchard), ‘ Black is a Force ( with Jason Haufe), BMG Art Gallery
Panel discussion: Patterns of Influence : Artists who Teach, The Painting Centre, New York
2018
Council of Adult Education, VIC, Australia
2010
Point B, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2006
Can Serrat International Art Centre, Support Stipend, Spain
REVIEWS:
Rule, Dan, Arts & Entertainment ( in the Galleries), Life and Style, The Age,15 February 2011, p. 5
Nelson, Robert, Visual Acumen Displayed by Artists with Confidence, The Age, 12 June 1996, p. 17
Nelson, Robert, The Art of Concept and Convention, The Age, Today, 3 December 1999, p. 4
INTERVIEWS:
Interview and podcast ( Anna Prifti and Fiona Halse) Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM ( Smart Arts with Dan and Steph Teitelbaum), 24 December 2020
Interview ‘White on White’, West End Art Space exhibition, (Anna Caione, Fiona Halse), Alex McCulloch , The Arts Show radio program, Jewish Australia Radio 87.8FM, August 2019 http://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/the-arts-show/
Interview ‘Of Colour and Light, Victorian Women Abstract Artists’, West End Art Space exhibition, (Anna Prifiti, Wilma Tabacco, Fiona Halse), Alex McCulloch , The Arts Show radio program, Jewish Australia Radio 87.8FM, October 2018 http://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/the-arts-show/
ARTICLES:
Benedetta Ferrara, Anna Caione e Fiona Halse Celebrano il Colore Bianco, Il Globo, 12 September, 2019, p.41
Grant Reynolds, Plenty on her Palette, Express Telegraph, 2 June,2009, p.11
Life in Broad Strokes, Melton Leader, 2 June, 2009, p. 11
Makin, Jeff, Choice Views, The Herald Sun, 10 August 1998, p. 98
COLLECTIONS:
Can Serrat International Art Centre (Spain)
Kathy Carraccio Collection (New York),
Trenerry Property Group Collection (Australia)
Geelong High School ( Australia)
Dynamic Residential Group Pty Ltd (Australia)
Austral Financial (Australia)
Private collections - Australia, UK, Hong Kong
ARTIST REGISTRATION
Painting Centre New York ( Art File 2017- current and Art Register)
MEMBERSHIP:
Arts Hub, NAVA, Women’s Arts Register, Firestation Print Studio, Golden Key International Honour Society