Fiona Edmonds Dobrijevich
Body of Water: Art and Writing
Fiona EDMONDS DOBRIJEVICH
2 Coastview Place
Freshwater NSW 2096
0408861399
fiona.dobrijevich@uts.edu.au
WWC0647415E
Tertiary Qualifications
Bachelor of Art, B.Education City Art Institute, UNSW
Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting)
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales Master of Fine Arts (Research),
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
Practice Area: Painting and Drawing, Supervisor Peter Sharp Awarded COFA Postgraduate Travel Grant 2009
2016 PhD Paused (due to closure of SCA campus, USYD.)
Employment
Honorary Researcher UTS
2023 Monte Sant Angelo College: Visual Art Teacher
2023 Australian Catholic University: Casual Academic
2006-2022 University of Technology Sydney:
Academic
Subject Coordinator, Lecturer,
Visual Arts, Painting, Creative Arts Education, Studio Practice, Cultural Studies, Ed. Developmental Psychology.
Research Interests:
Environmentalism and Sustainability, Human/ Animal relations, Feminism.
Coral, Seaweeds and Reefs: Fragility and Breath, the connection of things that breathe. The Oceanic Sublime.
The feminine oceanic: cultural and historical framings of the female and water. Nightswimming: Luminescence and being in the world. Underwater light.
Water as container and contained.
Contemporary investigations into human/nature entanglements.
Children’s artmaking as connection with contemporary issues, visual art as means of communicating to the wider community.
Selected Conference Papers/Writing
Bloomsbury Publication Creative Learning and Assessment 2023
International Arts in Society Conference 2021 Ocean, Mountain,Tree:
Ancient and Contemporary Art Forms and the Veneration of Nature. Sacred Nature in Minoan Crete as a Model for Contemporary Ecological Engagement.
Beyond the Human: Feminism and the Animal Turn University Wollongong 2016 Night Swimming
VADEA Conference, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney. 2016 My Life as A Fish: New Materialities
Arts and Society Conference London UK 2015 Night Swimming: The Emblem of my Work
Arts in Society Conference Sydney University 2010 Drowning Girl: Water and the Feminine Body
Arts in Society Conference Institute of Arts and Letters Venice, Italy 2009 Fluidity, Shift and Bloom: Understandings of an Oceanic Sublime
Past in the Present Conference, Glasgow School Of Art, Glasgow Scotland UK 2007 Cakes, Toys, Dreaming: Affect and Nostalgia in Australian Contemporary Art
Engaging Place/Engaging Culture, Curtin University WA 2008 Sublimis Mobilis: The Shifting Sublime
Creativity and Uncertainty Conference, University Technology 2008 Falling In: A Poetics of Wonder
COFA Journal 2007
Ice and Anxiety: The Contemporary Sublime
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 River of Art 2023 KAAF Finalist
2022 KAAF Art Prize Finalist
2021 Sustainable Art Prize MAGAM Finalist.
2021 FLOW Wollongong Art Prize Finalist
2021 Hawkesbury Art Prize Finalist
2020 KAC Art Prize Highly Commended
2019 KAC Art Prize Highly Commended.
2019 Oceanic Bodies. NB Creative Space
2017 Postcards from an Unquiet Ocean. NB Creative Space
2015 Beastly, Delmar Gallery
2015 Still Lives NB Creative Space
2014 Asia Australia Arts Foundation, Gallery 4A
2011 Emblem of My Work , Shandy Hall, Yorkshire, UK
2010 Body of Water Sheffer Gallery
2010 Liverpool City Art Prize Casula Powerhouse
2009 Asia Australia Arts Foundation Gallery 4a
2008 Asia Australia Arts Foundation, Gallery 4a.
Fremantle Maritime museum, Drawing Installation, Perth WA
2007 Hazelhurst Works on Paper Prize
COFA Alumni Prize
2006 Mosman Art Prize, AES Acquisitive Prize
2006 Framing the Urban Global Gallery Paddington
1990 Portia Geach Prize SH Ervin Gallery
1990 New Paintings EMR Gallery Redfern
1989 Invisible Cities North Sydney Contemporary Artspace
1988 Memory and Desire North Sydney Contemporary Artspace
Professional Associations and Memberships:
National Association of the Visual Arts NAVA
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand AAANZ 2006-2016
Visual Art and Design Educators Association VADEA Art Gallery of New South Wales Society
National Gallery of Australia Society
NTEU Union Of Tertiary Educators