Fiona Blandford is a photographer and video artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice engages cultural research, politics, landscape, portraiture and still life, influenced by a fifteen-year career as a chef and twelve years as a community organiser and campaigner with BirdLife Australia.
A strong conceptual and historical consciousness drives her photographic work, interrogating the human condition and our relationship to land cultivation in the name of progress.
Beyond her fine art practice, Fiona is a culture and history guide and co-founder of Everything is Fine. Nothing is Fine, a t-shirt label celebrating local beaches and Australian wildlife, with proceeds supporting koala forest planting through the Koala Clancy Foundation.
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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.