Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Fiona Currey-Billyard ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/) - Lunettes, Lake Mungo Photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Art Prize 2026- finalist 180cm x 140cm, graphite, medium, acrylic paint, soil on knotted rope. - [Petite Textile Exhibition](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/petite-textile-exhibition/) - Gentle Arts, is a piece based on the small embrodiered snippets that you inherited from the female members of your family. The work also references the covert knitters from various conflicts that used their hobby to pass on troop movements and other secrets. This work uses braille and the message is free Palastine as a - [About](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/about-fiona/) - Fiona is an emerging Contemporary artist currently based in Wagga Wagga in regional NSW. Fiona’s works recreate memories of historical and personal events held within landscapes, coasts and oceans and their elements such as ocean currents, coastlines, and tidal patterns. Fiona enmeshes her studio practice with research and experimentation, through which are identified the themes, - [Macquarie Art Prize semi finalist 2025](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/macquarie-art-prize-semi-finalist-2025/) - Black Soil Country, 2025 150cm x150cm, graphite, bitumen and black soilThis work was done about the idea of belonging to a place. The soil comes from an area that members of my family have settled in. - [A Memory of the Procure](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/a-memory-of-the-procure/) - A Memory of the Procure Steel nails (removed), salt water, rust on Belgian linen. 200x180cmA memory of the Sydney Harbour tug, the Procure which my father owned and loved. - [About](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/about/) - Fiona is an emerging Contemporary artist currently based in the town Wagga Wagga in regional NSW. Fiona’s works recreate memories of historical and personal events held within landscapes, coasts and oceans and their elements such as ocean currents, coastlines, and tidal patterns. Fiona enmeshes her studio practice with research and experimentation, through which are identified - [Exhibitions](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/exhibitions/) - Night Talk exhibition at Wangaratta Regional Gallery. 2025 - [Residencies](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/residencies/) - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris – January 2024 – March 2024 Bundanon, Shoalhaven – August 2024 Squatters Residency, Portland – November 2024 - [Adelaide Perry Art Prize 2025](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/adelaide-perry-art-prize-2025/) - Mountain #1 100cm x 100cm, charcoal, bitumen and graphite.Using charcoal collected from trees that survived the 2019 fires. I was exploring the idea that these trees would communicate through the charcoal. - [67th Blake Art Prize finalist 2022](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/67th-blake-art-prize-finalist-2022/) - Habitual Moving Rusted nails, salt on linen, 2.5 m x 2 mNails are used to map the ocean currents around the coastline where I was born. The cloth was then soaked in the salt-water from a location that is significant. - [Featured Works](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/featured-works/) - Habitual Moving Place Talk II The Last Time I Swam With My Father I​ My Mothers Hair My Fathers Tobacco Tide, Salt and Iron The Procure Mountain #1 Blue is the Colour of Grief #2 - [North Sydney Art Prize 2024](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/north-sydney-art-prize-2024/) - Tide, Iron and Salt Rusted nails, salt on linen4m x 6mNails are used to map the ocean currents around Sydney harbour. The cloth was then soaked in thesalt-water from a location that is significant. Home About Art Prizes Petite Textile Exhibition Macquarie Art Prize semi finalist 2025 Adelaide Perry Art Prize 2025 North Sydney Art - [Upcoming Events](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/upcoming-events/) - Upcoming Events Enquiries about work contact Annandale gallery directly.Phone: 9552 1699Click for images from exhibition Starting this January 2024 I have the privilege of having a three-month residency in Paris. Cite Internationale de arts. I am going to spend this time producing work for my next show at Annandale gallery later on in 2024. Wangaratta - [Media](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/media/) - Media Art Collector, July/August issue, 2023ArtsHub article of the 2023 Dobell Drawing PrizeArticle in Artist Profile March edition 2023Concrete Playground article on Creative HoardingsInterview about Dark Crossings exhibition at Annandale Galleries - [Dobell drawing art prize finalist 2019](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/dobell-drawing-prize-2019/) - For the Drowned Graphite on paper. 275x220cmThis drawing records a single line for each asylum seeker drowned whilst seeking refuge in Australia. - [Wangaratta Contemporary Fibre art prize finalist 2023](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/wangaratta-contemporary-fibre-art-prize-2023/) - Place Talk I Graphite and staples on canvas, 275x220cmStaples are used to map the ocean currents from the coastline where I was born. The graphite is an attempt to change the structure of the canvas to another object. - [Dobell Drawing art prize finalist 2023](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/dobell-art-prize-2023-2/) - The Last Time I Swam With My Father Rusted staples, salt on pape, 2.5 m x 1.8 mStaples used to map the ocean currents around the coastline of my birthplace. The paper was then soaked in saltwater from a place of a significant event. - [Contact](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/contact/) - Contact me by sending a message Name Email Information Send - [Public Art](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/public-art/) - Termite Project Decorated fibreglass termite mounds designed for the Darwin Festival, 2017 Talking Points Design for public seats, 2016 John's Rainbow Motion activated rainbow making machine. Stone Jewels Hoarding design for Sydney City Council. - [Still: National Still Life finalist 2019](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/still-national-still-life-finalist-2019/) - Nature Morte Digital transparency, lightbox. 100x40x10 cmNature Morte makes a strong statement that nature itself is subject to relentless conflict. This conflict is not a source of stillness, but of turmoil, dilapidation and ruin.Judges Commendation. - [Island I](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/island-i/) - Island I Steel nails (removed), salt water, rust, rabbit skin glue on Belgian linen. 90x90cm. A memory of Cockatoo Island where as a teenager my father embarked on his WWII naval service. - [Island II](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/island-ii/) - Island II Staples, acrylic paint, glitter on paper. 90x90cm.One of a series of memories of Cockatoo Island where my father embarked on his WWII naval service. - [The Last Time I Swam with my Father I](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/the-last-time-i-swam-with-my-father-i/) - The Last Time I Swam With My Father I Capillary machine applied salt water on black velvet. 220x120cmThis work relates to the location at Pt Stephens where I last swan with my late father. I use water drawn from those tidal flats applied using a capillary action machine of my design. The water carries memories - [Remember my name](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/remember-my-name/) - Remember my name A series of paintings commemorating the deaths of women from domestic violence during a two year period. - [Fisher Ghost prize finalist 2021](https://www.fionacurreybillyard.com/fisher-ghost-prize-finalist-2021/) - My lover told me he loved me Crystalline salt and charcoal on paper. 150x150cmThe work is based on the concept that landscapes and environmental materials such as salt water and ash retain our memories.