http://fionalongart.co.uk The art and musings of Fiona Long, a London based artist. Fiona Long: contemporary artist. Art from Fiona Long Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:39:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en View allGet your own Here are some images from our show 'Place Displace' showing how our work has evolved as a result of the Tokyo exchange last summer. During the summer of 2009, fourteen students from Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges (CCW) at the University of the Arts London travelled to ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/placedisplace-tokyolondon So here's a clip of me on the program House Gift on ITV1 which was aired on my birthday! I had a nice little chat with Laurence Llewelyn Bowen and he said that he really liked my work. He liked its nostalgic element and my use of colour and space. ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/house-gift Over the past year or so, I have become increasingly fascinated in collections and hoarding behaviour. This incredible exhibiton of Andrew Novick's collection of collections shows just a fraction of what he has accumulated. To him, the only problem is having the space to display it all. He collects everything ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/the-astounding-problem-of-andrew-novick A Tribute to Fred Sinkinson Knobbly Gourd Originally uploaded by fionalongart. My dear old art teacher who helped to transform my life into the budding artist that I am today sadly died recently at the age of 87. Fred Sinkinson was a wonderful ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/a-tribute-to-fred-sinkinson I really enjoyed taking part in the WAM exhibition at the Crypt Gallery under St Pancras Church. It was great to see my Post Consumer Material Culture work in another context. It was such a different setting to using a gallery wall and was really interesting to see the contrasts. ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/down-at-the-crypts Exhibition "Drawn Cut Torn"curated by Terry Smith at the wimbledon space, of drawings from people at Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Art. All visitors to each of the colleges on one day in October 2008 were asked to make a drawing of either "who am i?" or "where am ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/drawn-cut-torn Show at St Pancras Crypts Orford Ness Originally uploaded by fionalongart. I'm excited to announce that I'm taking part in a group show at the incredibly atmospheric St Pancras Crypts. It's called "Mind the Gap" and is about bringing depression above ground. It ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/show-at-st-pancras-crypts I was lucky enough to be phoned up the other day and invited to show some of my paintings at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. It's a great space with nice open internal architecture and there is alot of art; paintings hanging on the walls and sculptures suspended in spaces between ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/chelsea-and-westminster-hospital Song Dong Song Dong, Waste Not, 2005 Originally uploaded by 16 Miles of String. On our second day in Tokyo we had a wonderful lecture by the internationally acclaimed artist Song Dong. He was talking mostly about his work: Waste Not which was ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/song-dong Apologies that it's been soooo long since my last post! I did intend to blog every day when I was away in Tokyo but I had such a hectic time that I rarely got more than four hours sleep so, as you can imagine, I didn't get much blogging done! ... http://fionalongart.co.uk/archives/tokyoday-1