Fiona Hall's exhibition comprises the first showing in Sydney of two major recent works: Leaf Litter and Cell Culture. Leaf Litter is an ongoing series of two hundred gouache paintings of botanically-specific leaves on foreign paper currency. Cell Culture is a collection of animals and plants constructed out of clear glass beads and white Tupperware containers, all housed within a large museological display case.
Exhibition Dates: 24 October – 16 November 2002
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glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
glass, metal, pvc, beads in vitrine
158.1 x 250.2 x 90.2 cm; dimensions variable
One of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists, Fiona Hall is best known for extraordinary works that transform quotidian materials into vital organic forms with both historical and contemporary resonances. Hall works across a broad range of mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, moving image and installation, often employing forms of museological display. Hall’s sculptures are characterized by their intricate construction and thematic resonance with issues of environmentalism, globalization, war and conflict.
Fiona Hall All The King's Men, 2014-15; Exhibition view, Wrong Way Time, Australian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale (9 May — 22 November 2015)
Fiona Hall Vaporised, 2014; Perfume bottles, mobile, metal car badges; dimensions variable
Fiona Hall Untitled, 2015; Coal, aluminum; 50 x 40 x 32 cm
![Fiona Hall Untitled [Out of my tree], 2014 (detail); aluminium, burnt books; 152 x 120 x 59.5 cm](https://images.roslynoxley9.com.au/Hc/YU/f5b4d3b2-04b1-4728-b5ea-a7def4a5f6ab/hero-960.jpg)
Fiona Hall Untitled [Out of my tree], 2014 (detail); aluminium, burnt books; 152 x 120 x 59.5 cm
Exhibition view, Fiona Hall, Gateless Gate, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (12 April — 13 May 2017)
Fiona Hall Afraid Cascade
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2020
Group Show, Caught Stealing
National Art School, Sydney, 2019
Fiona Hall The Hall of Service
Anzac Memorial, Sydney, 2019
Group Show, State of Play
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017
Fiona Hall Fiona Hall: Uneasy Seasons
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017
Fiona Hall Gateless Gate
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017
Group Show, Creative Accounting
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016-17
Group Show, Sappers and Shrapnel
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2016-17
Group Show, The Nest
Katonah Museum of Art, New York, 2016
Fiona Hall Wrong Way Time
56th Venice Biennale, 2015
Whisper in My Mask
TarraWarra Biennial, 2014
Fiona Hall Veneer
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2014
Fiona Hall Dark Heart
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2014
Fiona Hall Big Game Hunting
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2013
Fiona Hall Shot Through
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011
Group Show, Head On Photography Festival
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011
Group Show, True Story
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010-11
Group Show, Lucky Town
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008-09
Group Show, STOLEN RITUAL
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006-07
Fiona Hall
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Fiona Hall The Art of Fiona Hall
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2005
Fiona Hall Cell Culture & Leaf Litter
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
Group Show, Dirty Dozen
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
Group Show, The First 20 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
Fiona Hall A folly for Mrs Macquarie
Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, 2001
Group Show, All Stars
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2000
Fiona Hall Fieldwork
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1999
Group Show, Every other day
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1998
Fiona Hall Global Liquidity (with Nalini Malani)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1998
Fiona Hall Fern Garden
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1997
Fiona Hall Slash and Burn
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1997
Fiona Hall Lana H. Foil: Call of Nature
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1997
Group Show, Give A Dog A Bone
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996
FIONA HALL
Born Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Uneasy Seasons, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Fiona Hall: A Case Study, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales
All the King’s Men, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Wrong Way Time, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Wrong Way Time, Australia Pavilion curated by Linda Michael, 56th Venice Biennale
Veneer, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Big Game Hunting, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
Veneer, Two Rooms, Auckland
Shot Through, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Fiona Hall, Force Field, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Fiona Hall, Force Field, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand
Fiona Hall, Force Field, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Fiona Hall, Force Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Fiona Hall, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Fiona Hall, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
So so (1995) installation, Coffs Harbour City Gallery
Cell Culture and Leaf Litter, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Fieldwork, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
A Transit through Paradise, Gallery 706, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Global Liquidity (with Nalini Malani), Gallery Chemould, Bombay, India and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Cash Crop, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia
Call of Nature, Lana H. Foil, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Price is Right, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Garden of Earthly Delights, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane
Fiona Hall, Words, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Illustration to Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Selections from 14 Years Fiona Hall, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
III III II: A Survey of Twelve Year Work, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Fiona Hall, Recent Work, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Fiona Hall, Recent Photographs, The Developed Image, Adelaide; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Visibility Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Recent Works, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
The Antipodean Suite, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORY, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Caught Stealing, National Art School, Sydney
Simon Denny: Mine, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
Art Cologne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Hong Kong
Dark Rooms: Women Directing the Lens 1978 – 98, Griffith University Art Museum (forthcoming)
Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Hong Kong
State of Play, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
State of Play, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
SAPPERS & SHRAPNEL: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE ART OF THE TRENCHES, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary, Sydney
Best in Show, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales
The Nest, an exhibition of art in nature, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Creative Accounting, UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Creative Accounting, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW.
Creative Accounting, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, VIC.
Creative Accounting, Albury Library Museum, Albury, NSW
TarraWarra Biennale: Whisper in my Mask curated by Djon Mundine and Natalie King, TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra.
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014: Whorled Explorations, Kochi, Kerala, India (curated by Jitish Kallat)
Dark Heart, 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (curated by Nick Mitzevich)
Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Mythopoetic: Women artists from Australia and India, Griffith University, Queensland
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev)
ANIMAL/HUMAN, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific (touring): Tauranga Art Gallery, New Zealand, New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland
Djalkiri- We are Standing on Their Names – Blue Mud Bay (touring); Nyinkka Nyunyu Art & Culture Centre , Tennant Creek, Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Geelong Art Gallery , Geelong, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, UTS Gallery, Sydney.
Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
17th Biennale of Sydney, Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age. Directed by David Elliot
True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Ecologies, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, New South Wales
Uneasy: Recent South Australian Art, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, curated by Timothy Morrell
DeOverkant/Downunder, Den Haag Sculpture 2007, Netherlands
Artist Makes Video, Art Rage Survey 1994-1998, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Forty Eight Hours of Visual Arts, (FEHVA), Byron Bay, NSW
New Nature, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
Strange Cargo: Contemporary art as a state of encounter, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Tweed River Regional Gallery
Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples from the collections of the MCA and the University of Wollongong, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Touring to Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales; Lake Macquarie Art Gallery, Lake Macqaurie, New South Wales; Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Queensland; Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Art Gallery, Port Macquarie, New South Wales; Dubbo Regional Gallery and Museum, Dubbo, New South Wales; LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria; University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia
Prism: Contemporary Australian Art, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Earth Cry, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, New South Wales
Contemporary Commonwealth, Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Strangely Familiar, with Fiona MacDonald, curator Ricky Subritzky, University of Technology Sydney Gallery
Uncanny (the unnaturally strange), curator Rhana Devenport, Artspace, Auckland
After Van Gogh: Australian artists in homage to Vincent, curator Rodney James, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
Unstrung: the bead in contemporary art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Curated by Louise Tegart, Victoria
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Lapped, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown. Sepetmber- October, 2005.
After Van Gogh: Australian Artists in Homage to Vincent, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria, Australia
Material Girls and Boys, curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte, March-June 2005
Living Together is Easy, curated by Eriko Osaka and Jason Smith, Contemporary Art Centre, Art Tower Mito, Mito Arts Foundation, Mito-shi, Japan; The National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Victoria
More Easily Imagined: Crossings of the Blue Mountains, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Tree Time, Museum De Zonnehof, The Netherlands
Nature and Nation: Vaster than Empires, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings Borough, UK
Flagship: Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1790 – 2000, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne
Lure of the Southern Seas: the Voyages of Dumont D’Urville 1826 - 1840, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
2nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002
Sculpture by the Sea, exh. cat., Bondi 2002
The Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Converge: where art + science meet, 2002 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia
Unpacking Europe, Haus de Kulturen de Welt,Berlin, Germany
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Desire, RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
The Art of Transformation, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales (Gene Pool, Government House, Sydney)
Terra Mirabilis/Wonderful Land, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales
Chemistry: Art in South Australia 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Mirror with a Memory: A History of the Photographic Portrait in Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
All Stars 2000, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
he Sydney Sculpture Walk, Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Sydney
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New Republics: Contemporary Art from Australia, Canada and South Africa, Canada House Gallery, London; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Canberra School of Art; University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Signature Works, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Clemenger Art Award, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
Tensions, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Queensland
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Every Other Day, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Contempora5, National Gallery of Victoria (Winner inaugural Contempora 5 Art Award)
The Enigmatic Object, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Archives and the Everyday, ANU Canberra School of Art Gallery
The Power To Move; Aspects of Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, February
96 Containers, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, March
Death, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, April
How Say You, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, March
Colonial/Post Colonial, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, May
Container 96 - Art Across Oceans, Copenhagen, May
Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Sept ‘96 – Jan ‘97
Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Cologne Internationaler Kunstmarkt, Koln Messe, Germany, November
Art Rage 96, compilation for ABC TV video (collaboration with Destiny Deacon), January
The Object of Existence, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Biodata, Adelaide Installations, Adelaide Festival
Fania, University of South Australia Art Museum
Localities of Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney Photographed, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Dante in Australia, Dante Centre, Ravenna, Italy
Adelaide Festival Artists’ Projects, Festival Centre, Adelaide
The Temple of Flora, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne
Photodeath, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The Corporeal Body, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Stranger than Fiction, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Second Nature, P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo, Japan
Harbour Hymns, City Songs, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Contemporain Australien, Noumea, New Caledonia
Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Fragmentation and Fabrication: Recent Australian Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Terminal Garden, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art from Australia. Eight Contemporary Views, Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, VACB & Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra
From the Sublime to the Sordid, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
South Australia Rephotographed, College Gallery, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide
Recent South Australian Art; New Acquisitions Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Australian Photography 1928-1988, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Australian Photography: the 1980’s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Australian States Itinerary
Constructed Images: Photographs of Parliament House, The Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
What is The Thing Called Science? Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne
Pure Invention, Parco Space 5, Tokyo Japan; Contemporary Art
Centre of South Australia, Adelaide; 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Some Provincial Myths, Recent Art from Adelaide, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide; Australian States Itinerary
The Gothic, Perversity and its Pleasure, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Melbourne
Gods, Demi-Gods and Demi-demi Gods, The Developed Image, Adelaide
The Renegotiated Image: Excerpts from Perspecta, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Four Photographers, Photographers Gallery, Melbourne
In Full View. An Exhibition of 20 x 24 Polaroid Photographs, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Australian States Itinerary
South Australian Photographers, Artists Space, Melbourne
National Photographic Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Centre, Victoria
Laughter in the Dark: Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Common Ground/ Personal I, Adelaide Arts Centre, Adelaide
Time Present and Time Past, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Interface: A Survey of Art and Technology, Centre Gallery, Adelaide
CSR Photography Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
A Decade of Australian Photography, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Vision in Disbelief Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Contemporary Colour Photography, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
New American Photographs, California State College, San Bernardo, California, United States
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Fifteen Australian Photographers, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Project 38: Re-constructed Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
By Arrangement, DBR Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Fiona Hall, David Blount, Brian Thompson, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Eternal Present, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Travelling Exhibition
Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne
Creative Camera Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Galeria Photographica Nadar, Pisa Italy
Six Australian Woman Photographers, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Thoughts and Images: An Exploratory Exhibition of Australian Student Photography, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Olympic Fine Art Collection, SOCOG, Sydney
COMMISSIONS
All Along the Watch Towers, Centre d'arts et de nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Anzac Memorial Centenary Project Commission, Hyde Park, Sydney
Queensland Brain Institute
Wollongong University Landscaping Project
Folly for Mrs Macquarie, Sydney Sculpture Walk, Botanic Gardens
Bloodline, SOCOG Olympic Limited Edition Print and Poster Commission
Fern Garden, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Occupied Territory, Commission for the opening of the Museum of Sydney
Polaroid 20 x 24 Commission, New York Residency at VACB Green Street Studio, New York, United States
South Australia Rephotographed
Polaroid 20 x 24 Commission, New York, United States
In Full View, Polaroid 20 x 24 Camera Project
Parliament House Construction Project
CSE Photographic Project
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