on hot-press paper, rubbed until it fades and fuses with the surface, becomes a shadow of its former self. Lines repeated, gradually darkening, produce marks of tension and great spatial depth. The bleeding of charcoal and graphite trapped and paled by layers added and removed continues to exploit these abstract interpretations of movement, sound, mutability and evanescent light. My work is an enquiry into process, through memory and repetition. It is an investigation into the instability of line, of surface, of life, informed by observation of the world around me.
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Plainsong 2022
Graphite, 120 x 76 cm.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 13 June – 20 August 2023
Waltzing with Chopin #4
Ink Watercolour and mixed media 67 x 101.5
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition
6 May – 11 June 2023
One of a series of seven Waltzing with Chopin works. The others are on the Chopin pages see drop down menu.
L’Après midi d’un Faune. 2016. Graphite, charcoal and mixed media 60 x 80 cms
EXHIBITIONS
Beyond Other Horizons,
Iasi Palace of Culture, Moldova National Museum Complex, Iasi, Romania,. 30 May – 30 June 2020 and Tour
Originally opened on 2nd March and closed the following week due to Corona Virus but now re-opened.
British Council Exhibition and Symposium curated by artist curator Peter Harrap; writer and curator Anna McNay; and artist Florin Ungureanu. The British Council symposium was held on the 3rd March, in partnership with George Enescu, University of the Arts Iasi, Romania.
YouTube discussion about the show on the Current Exhibitions Page
‘Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now’, British Museum from 11 September 2019 – 12 January 2020.
The Oriental Museum, Durham
29 February – 17 May 2020
https://www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum/whatson/details/?id=44379
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
13 June – 5 September 2020
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
19 September – 29 November 2020
Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
9 December 2020 – 6 March 2021
This exhibition curated by Isabel Seligman will include nearly 60 contemporary drawings from the British Museum’s collection. It will investigate how contemporary artists as diverse as Tacita Dean, Imran Qureshi, Sol LeWitt, Cornelia Parker, Pablo Bronstein, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Fiona Robinson and others have used drawing to examine themes including identity, place, memory, power, and process. Collaboratively conceived by curators from across the UK, this exhibition follows on from the successful touring exhibition Lines of thought and is supported by the Bridget Riley Art Foundation. The exhibition will tour to Durham, Swansea, Stromness and Barnsley.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/pushing_paper.aspx
Seeing Sound: Music Imagery and Inspiration
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge UK
8 October 2019 – 12 January 2020
https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/seeing-sound-music-imagery-and-inspiration
Works that make connections between art and music by Watteau, Rossetti, Renoir and Picasso and musical manuscripts by Handel, Brahms, Stravinsky and the Founder of the Museum, Lord Fitzwilliam and La Cathèdrale Engloutie see below
La cathédrale engloutie (Debussy plays Debussy series) 2018 Graphite and mixed media. Collection The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
SOUL MUSIC on Debussy’s L’Après-midi d’un faune
produced by Maggie Ayre
available on iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z5j2m
Conversations about the profound impact that Debussy’s L’Après midi d’un Faune has had on listeners.
Fiona Robinson’s work is increasingly informed by music. Using the language of drawing she creates an equivalent of, a transcription of, music. It is not a system of notation, not an alternative to a musical score to be reinterpreted, it is a response to the sound.
Robinson’s drawings present a communication between composer and artist, a conversation between two practitioners, through the languages they use to express their ideas. This is where the music and the drawing connect.
SONOGRAPHIE
Centro Internazionale d’Arte di Palazzo te, Mantua 21 June – 9 September 2018
Debussy Drawings by Fiona Robinson with Salvatore Sciarrino’s preparatory drawings for his Third piano sonata.
Women with Vision: Frink-Blow-Larson, Women of the RWA, Cornelia Parker: One day this glass will break.
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK.
16 December 2017 – 18 March 2018
DRAWING DEBUSSY
Where music and drawing connect
Royal West of England Academy Bristol 1 March – 16 April 2017
Exhibition of work by Fiona Robinson RWA exploring the relationship between drawing and music. http://www.rwa.org.uk/whats-on/drawing-debussy-fiona-robinson
Snatched Moments Film 3 min. 57 sec.
Stills selected from 58 drawings, graphite, chalk, wax and found material on paper and Japanese tissue, sizes variable, 2014-15. Set to Reverie by Debussy
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