Born in Lithgow, Australia, 1973, Fiona Estelle Blandford lives and works in Melbourne. Blandford completed a Bachelor degree of Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, (RMIT).
Blandford’s work is politically and historically driven; she is continually expanding and developing her approach that incorporates the mediums of photography, sound and video. Her consideration presents an environment that explores the relationship between art, place and culture.
2008-2010
RMIT UNIVERSITY Melbourne
Degree/ Fine Art - Photography
2005-2007
Southern Cross University
Lismore, NSW
Degree/Multi Media, Communications
and Narrative Studies
2011- 2012
Seventh Board Member Residency Coordinator
2021 - Judge - BirdLife Photo Award
2016 – present – Project, 1983 from the Freezer.
2017 – 2019 – BirdLife Australia photo award Project Management. Catagory selection - Fine Art, Human Impact.
2015 - Second Shadow, prelude and trail, The Lock up Cultural Centre, Newcastle.
2015 - Love/City II: of TIME and COUNTRY, Testing Grounds, Melbourne.
2013 - We are our landscape - Little Woods Gallery
Langudge st Fitzroy
2012 - Traditional artists are priests/ Contemporary artists are whores
Curated and exhibited SEVENTH Gallery
Gertrude st, Fitzroy
2011 - The Kingdom of Prussia
Director of Photography
http://thekingdomofprussia.blogspot.com.au
2011 - Short Film PLAYPALS By Yianni Warnock Set Photography
2011 - Food Porn Nightly Night screen SEVENTH Gallery
Gertrude st, Fitzroy
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 - The Memorial curated by Claire Lambe & Elvis Richardson
Group show Death Be Kind, Brunswick
2009 - as things moved on/they felt a little strange - Group show - First Site, RMIT
Anita Belia, Mary Sullivan, Jo Persson
2007/08/09 - Shortlisted Olive Cotton National Portrait Prize - Tweed River Regional Gallery
2008 - Look Out Group Show Hogan Gallery Collingwood
2007 27 Password’s - Self published book of photography
2006 - Emerging Artist Exhibiton - Runner up emerging artist - Piece Gallery Mullumbimby NSW
2006 - Border Art Prize Group Show Tweed River Gallery
2005/06 - Vice President of Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance
Byron bay Office, a national organization aiming to educate on Indonesian ways of believing
2004 Sculpture Collaboration - Stone Reflexology Labyrinth
Registered to Catalonia, Spain.
Blandford’s work is politically and historically driven; she is continually expanding and developing her approach that incorporates the mediums of photography, sound and video. Her consideration presents an environment that explores the relationship between art, place and culture.
Qualifications
2008-2010
RMIT UNIVERSITY Melbourne
Degree/ Fine Art - Photography
2005-2007
Southern Cross University
Lismore, NSW
Degree/Multi Media, Communications
and Narrative Studies
2011- 2012
Seventh Board Member Residency Coordinator
Exhibitions/Projects
2021 - Selected - In Focus Portfolio Review - Ballarat International Foto Biennale2021 - Judge - BirdLife Photo Award
2016 – present – Project, 1983 from the Freezer.
2017 – 2019 – BirdLife Australia photo award Project Management. Catagory selection - Fine Art, Human Impact.
2015 - Second Shadow, prelude and trail, The Lock up Cultural Centre, Newcastle.
2015 - Love/City II: of TIME and COUNTRY, Testing Grounds, Melbourne.
2013 - We are our landscape - Little Woods Gallery
Langudge st Fitzroy
2012 - Traditional artists are priests/ Contemporary artists are whores
Curated and exhibited SEVENTH Gallery
Gertrude st, Fitzroy
2011 - The Kingdom of Prussia
Director of Photography
http://thekingdomofprussia.blogspot.com.au
2011 - Short Film PLAYPALS By Yianni Warnock Set Photography
2011 - Food Porn Nightly Night screen SEVENTH Gallery
Gertrude st, Fitzroy
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 - The Memorial curated by Claire Lambe & Elvis Richardson
Group show Death Be Kind, Brunswick
2009 - as things moved on/they felt a little strange - Group show - First Site, RMIT
Anita Belia, Mary Sullivan, Jo Persson
2007/08/09 - Shortlisted Olive Cotton National Portrait Prize - Tweed River Regional Gallery
2008 - Look Out Group Show Hogan Gallery Collingwood
2007 27 Password’s - Self published book of photography
2006 - Emerging Artist Exhibiton - Runner up emerging artist - Piece Gallery Mullumbimby NSW
2006 - Border Art Prize Group Show Tweed River Gallery
2005/06 - Vice President of Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance
Byron bay Office, a national organization aiming to educate on Indonesian ways of believing
2004 Sculpture Collaboration - Stone Reflexology Labyrinth
Registered to Catalonia, Spain.