Fiona Blandford is a Bunurong based photographer with a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT. Her practice engages cultural research, politics, landscape, portraiture and still life, influenced by fifteen years as a chef and twelve years as a conservationist with BirdLife Australia.
Her photographic work is driven by a strong conceptual and historical consciousness, interrogating the human condition and our relationship to land cultivation in the name of progress.
Beyond her fine art practice, Fiona is co-founder of Everything is Fine. Nothing is Fine., a sustainable t-shirt label celebrating local beaches and wildlife on Phillip Island, with proceeds supporting koala forest planting through the Koala Clancy Foundation.
Jasmin McNeil
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Education
2025-26Swinburne University of Technology
Certificate IV - Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
2022-23
Master in Policy - RMIT University - Candidate
2008-2010
Bachelor in Fine Art - Photography
RMIT University Melbourne
2005-2007
Bachelor of Art - Candidate
Southern Cross UniversityLismore, NSW
1993-96
Certificate IV Apprenticeship
Food Preparation/Professional Cooking
Exhibitions/Projects
2026 - Bacchus - Group Show - June/July 2026 - alongside artists, Jan Learmonth, Sarah Parkes and Ellen Taylor, curated by Jasmin McNeill.2026 - Art Cube Residency - Fleet, Leongatha ( April 2026)
2022 - Present - Everything is Fine, Nothing is Fine - Photography and design.
2021 - Ballarat International Foto Biennale - Selected - In Focus Portfolio Review.
2021 - Judge - BirdLife Photo Award
2016 – Present – 120 Film Project, 1983 from the Freezer.
2017 – 2019 – BirdLife Australia photo award project management. Catagory creator - Fine Art, Human Impact.
2015 - The Lock up Cultural Centre, Newcastle. Group show - Second Shadow, prelude and trail.
2015 - Testing Grounds, Melbourne - Love/City II: of TIME and COUNTRY.
2013 - Little Woods Gallery - Solo Show - We are our landscape.
2012 - SEVENTH Gallery Gertrude st, Fitzroy - Curated and exhibited - Traditional artists are priests/ Contemporary artists are whores.
2011- 2012 - Seventh Board Member - Residency Coordinator
2011 - The Kingdom of Prussia
Director of Photography
http://thekingdomofprussia.blogspot.com.au
2011 - Short Film - PLAYPALS By Yianni Warnock Set Photography
2011 - SEVENTH Gallery Gertrude st, Fitzroy
Food Porn Nightly - Night screen
2010 - RMIT Fine Art Photography Graduate Exhibition -
45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.
2010 - Commission from ‘Ponyface’ Band -
Melbourne based band to make conceptual promotion images.
2010 - The Heart, a short film by Danny Danny Cumbo Lighting, RMIT.
2010 - Group show Death Be Kind, Brunswick
The Memorial curated by Claire Lambe & Elvis Richardson.
2009 - First Site, RMIT - Group show - as things moved on/they felt a little strange.
2007/08/09 - Tweed River Regional Gallery - Shortlisted Olive Cotton National Portrait Prize.
2008 - Hogan Gallery Collingwood - Look Out Group Show.
2007 - Self published book of photography - 27 Password’s
2006 - Piece Gallery Mullumbimby NSW
Emerging Artist Exhibiton - Runner up emerging artist.
2006 - Tweed River Gallery - Border Art Prize Group Show.
2005/06 - Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance - Vice President.
2004 Sculpture Collaboration - Stone Reflexology Labyrinth
Registered to Catalonia, Spain.