Fiona Little, Material Grid painting (4), 2015. Acrylic on wood, 60 x 55 cm.
Fiona Little works in the field of abstraction making paintings and drawings that draw upon the influence of industrialisation and mass-production. Repetitive grids have formed the basis of her compositions which explore the basic nature of what painting is – paint applied to a flat surface using colour, texture, shape, line, space. Little creates her paintings through a process of layering, where time becomes a crucial element in the creative process. The idea of the machine has influenced her work in various ways; from using machine-made cloth with tartan designs as the ground on which to paint, to employing a process of repetitive mark-marking through the artists hand, thus turning the artist into a machine. Little’s recent explorations of the grid have been pushing painting into 3-dimensions.
Alongside her painting practice, Little works in photography and graphic design. Her photographs were selected as finalists in the Sunstudio’s Emerging Photographers Award 2021, and Perth Centre For Photography’s CLIP- Contemporary Landscapes In Photography Award, 2022.
Little lives and works in Canberra, where she graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in Painting from the ANU School of Art. In 2021 she gained a Certificate IV in Photography and Photo Imaging from the Canberra Institute of Technology. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, including at Watters Gallery, Sydney, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, and Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.
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