ARTIST: Fiona Margaret Hall
Fiona Margaret Hall is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists, noted for her diverse use of art forms. These include sculpture, painting, installation, garden design and video. I am particularly fascinated with how Hall's artworks deal with themes such as violence, and convey a strong message about the defects in society.The core theme throughout Hall’s work is the relationship between nature and culture. Throughout her career, Hall has maintained a lifelong commitment to teaching and studying as a means of furthering her art.
Hall’s choice of material and way she uses it, is critical to her art. Her art forms have the ability to speak to us, because they engage with contemporary life in intriguing ways. Hall deliberately transforms ordinary everyday objects and materials to address a range of complex contemporary issues such as globalization, consumerism, colonialism and natural history.
Fiona Hall builds up creations from tiny glass beads, as well as figures, heads and children’s toys woven with video tape from violent war films and baby clothes woven from shredded Coca-Cola cans. Hall’s art is essentially seductive to eye and challenging to the intellect. These works are all provocative and volatile, needing extreme care when viewed and handled.
Fiona Hall's extensive use of non-traditional media, materials and methods of display in her works reveal her attempts to break away from traditional art-making conventions, as a way to challenge mainstream values of histories and ideas.
Initial Idea/Concept:
Under the influence of hall, my Art Gallery Shop House is going to be created to a similar effect; the building itself is going to communicate the idea of deficiency and fragmentation, where spaces are separated yet connected. As many of Hall’s works are woven or knit, I have decided to bring the visitor on a journey of weaving through space, where they are led to find new meaning and make sense of the defects within society.
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