“Rose Moon”
Fiona Abicare
15 Feb → 13 Apr 2019
West Space is pleased to announce Fiona Abicare as the 2019 West Space Solo Commission artist. Fiona's exhibition Rose Moon will be presented across all of our galleries in February 2019.
Rose Moon is a large-scale exhibition exploring the origins of the interior design style Shabby Chic in relation to art history and feminine aesthetics. Taking shape as a series of site-specific sculptures, Rose Moon considers the practice of the female home decorator as sculptor, painter and craft practitioner.
Abicare works across sculpture and site to explore diverse material histories. Influenced broadly by modernism and its interaction with art, design, architecture, film and fashion, her work absorbs and reflects cultural histories, personal memories and other embedded associations. She is interested in transforming the traditional distinctions between art and design through her decisions, materials and methodologies, and pays specific attention to the material qualities of objects and how an audience might encounter their placement in space.
Fiona Abicare is represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne.
View the Rose Moon catalogue here
This project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Fiona Abicare completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts (1994) and Honours in Sculpture at RMIT University (1999). In 2006 she was awarded a Masters of Arts in Interior Design from RMIT University, and she undertook an Australia Council London Studio residency in 2012. Abicare has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions.