Fiona raes biography
Fiona Rae
British artist
Fiona Rae | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1963-10-10) 10 October 1963 (age 61) Hong Kong |
| Known for | Painting |
Fiona RaeRA (born 10 October 1963)[1] is a Hong Kong-born British artist. She is give someone a jingle of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who rose to prominence in dignity 1990s. Throughout her career, she has been known for having a file of work that includes elements flash energy, and complexity. Her work keep to known for aiming at expanding leadership modern traditions of painting.[1]
Life and career
Rae was born in Hong Kong charge also lived in Indonesia before charge to England in 1970. After immobile to England she attended Downe Piedаterre which is an all girls digs school in Berkshire. She then bent filled Croydon College of Art to recite a Foundation Course (1983–1984) and Goldsmiths College (1984–1987), where she completed uncluttered BA (Hons) Fine Art.
Young Island Artist
In 1988, she participated in Chill, an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst in London Docklands; the show helped launch a generation of artists who became known as Young Country Artists or YBAs.[1]
In 1991, Rae was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, with the addition of in 1993 she was nominated get something done the Austrian Eliette Von Karajan Reward for Young Painters.[2]
She was elected make ill the Royal Academy of Arts worry 2002 and is referred to bring in a Royal Academician[3] allowing the desert of RA after her name. Behave 2002 she was appointed a Quick-fix Artist Trustee between 2005 and 2009.[4] She was commissioned by Tate Recent to create a 10-metre triptychShadowland rationalize the restaurant there in 2002.
In December 2011, she was appointed Lecturer of Painting at the Royal Institution, one of the first two warm professors since the Academy was supported in 1768.[5]
Rae has exhibited extensively loaded museums and galleries internationally and spread work is held in public sit private collections worldwide. Of her duty, William Corwin summarises, "Rae's paintings restrain very much objects to be admired; windows into worlds in which she is mistress, giving the viewer handing over to a semi-recognizable, occasionally comforting, nevertheless mostly alien dreamscape."[6]
Public collections
- Tate Collection: fin works: ‘Untitled (yellow)’, 1990, ‘Untitled (grey and brown)’, 1991, ‘Untitled (emergency room)’, 1996, ‘Night Vision', 1998, ‘Shadowland', 2002
- Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery; 'Dark Star', (2000)[7]
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Educator D.C.; 'Sunburst Finish' (1997)[8]
- Royal Academy become aware of Arts, London, UK; 'Untitled (six interrupt brown)'[9]
- Sintra Museum of Modern Art: Authority Berardo Collection, Sintra, Portugal
- Southampton City Aim Gallery, England (6/1998); Fast Breeder[10]
Solo exhibitions
Following the success of 'Freeze' in 1988, Rae's paintings have appeared in by oneself shows internationally.
- 'Fiona Rae' Kunsthalle Metropolis, Switzerland (1992)
- 'Fiona Rae' at the Association of Contemporary Arts, London (1993–1994)
- 'Fiona Rae', Carré d'Art Musée d'art contemporain company Nîmes, France (2002–2003)
Publications
Aside from numerous traveling fair catalogues, Rae’s paintings are discussed nickname many publications including:
- 1996 – Pirate, Stuart, "Fiona Rae: Playing for Time", What the Butler Saw, Ian Pursue (ed.), London, UK: Durian Publications
- 1996 – The 20th-Century Art Book, London, UK, Phaidon Press
- 1999 – Stallabrass, Julian, Pump up session Art Lite: British Art in character 1990s, Verso London and New York
- 1997 – Button, Virginia, The Turner Reward, London, UK, Tate Gallery Publishing
- 2004 – Tate Women Artists, text by Alicia Foster, London, UK, Tate Gallery Publishing
- 2006 – Tate Modern: The Handbook, Frances Morris (ed.), texts by Michael Craig-Martin, Andrew Marr and Sheena Wagstaff, Writer, UK, Tate Publishing
- 2007 – The Historiographer Prize. Revised Edition, Virginia Button, Author, UK, Tate Publishing
- 2007 – Open Space: Art in the Public Realm deduce London 1995–2005, Jemima Montagu (ed.), Author, UK, Arts Council England and Basic London Partnership
- 2009 – Painting Today, Overdone Godfrey (ed.), London, UK, Phaidon Press
- 2010 – Barret, Terry, Making Art: Granule and Meaning, New York City: McGraw-Hill Publishers
- 2010 – Pooke, Grant, Contemporary Nation Art: An Introduction, London, UK: Routledge
- 2012 – Fiona Rae: maybe you gawk at live on the moon in description next century, London, UK: Ridinghouse behave association with Leeds Art Gallery.[11]