Fiona Bilbrough

Biography

Fiona received the Gordon Moffat Award in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Fiona has work in private collections in France, Italy, Spain, England, Scotland and throughout Australia.

STUDIES

1990 Bachelor of Education, fine arts, Melbourne University.
1989-1990 Private tuition with John Balmain
1996-1997 Extensive art study tour in Europe

EXHIBITIONS

1993 Quaison’s Mornington
1994 Nickelby’s Carlton
1998 Delshan Armadale
2001 Victorian Artists Society Galleries Melbourne
Jenny Pihan Fine Art Hampton
White Hill Gallery Dromana
2016 Woman painting Woman Barinja Art Gallery Upwey
Salon Des Refuses Mornington Regional Gallery
2016 Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Glen Eira

ACTIVITIES

My teaching and painting careers have merged since graduation from university in 1990 I was awarded the Alice Bale scholarship valued at $30,000 in 1995 followed by 18 months in Europe studying classical portraiture and still life, being greatly influenced by master painters of Britain and Spain.

I love teaching to students, beginners and advanced any medium but the rules of casual observation and order of visual importance dominate my teaching methods. I encourage my students to work from life, exhibit, study the Master Painters and take themselves seriously.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Australian Artist Magazine
1996 June Pastels
1999 June Pastels
1997 January “travels with my aunt”
2001 January Still Life
2010 April Making Every Brush Stroke Count
2017 July Masters of Melbourne Pt 1

AWARDS

1995 Alice Bale traveling Scholarship ($30,000)
2011 “A Tribute to Buvelot” Dromana ($10,000)
2016 Membership to the 20 Melbourne Painters Society.