Fiona holds degrees in Fine Arts and Design, and has taught in universities since her early twenties. She loves teaching as it allows her to work alongside artists as they seek to deepen their relationship to their own artistic practice and those around them.

In the past decade, Fiona has also developed a pottery practice focused on the production of wood fired domestic ware. The social dimension of her public artwork finds a quieter and more intimate set of relationships through this practice of making cups and bowls for eating and drinking together. She enjoys focusing on the details of how these vessels function (the thousands of ways the rim of a cup can be shaped for the lip to rest on) and their engagement with the body and the ways we use domestic objects. Shaping clay and vitrifying it through the heat of a wood fuelled fire is a process rooted in community, social history and the earth.

Fiona also has a long history of making artworks for public space using billboards, posters and banners to present text works that respond to the context or epoch in which they reside. She pieces together a fabric of references that inform the development of each body of work, and often invites participation, consultation and/or collaboration with people and groups. Within this aggregation of people, contexts and ideas, her projects reflect upon contemporary situations and the systems, ideologies and forms of resistance we use to shape and reshape them.

Fiona is currently acting head of the Elam school of Fine Arts.