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Fiona M Lee

@fiona_m_lee

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Artist | Biripi Country, Australia
@burrinja Climate Change Biennale 22 Aug-25 Oct.26

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🎂 80 seconds with … Fiona Lee 🎂

Fi is an artist & activist from Elands NSW, and tells us a little about why she makes, why connecting with other artists matters to her and how RANSW’s RALLY program helped her develop her networks & practice

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#ausartday @creative.australia taken in Elands by @fiona_m_lee

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Last week, Women's Agenda recognised Fiona Lee among the women leading climate action in Australia.
We are proud to have Fiona as one of our survivor advocates. She is an inspiration to so many - as an artist, parent, and community member.

Fiona lost her home in the Black Summer bushfires, and since then, she's been speaking up about her experience to media, in parliament, in courts, and through her incredible art.

“We desperately need leadership that’s honest about where we’re at. When authorities ignore climate science and keep approving new mines, the impact is deeply human” - Fiona Lee speaking to Women's Agenda.

Read the full piece at the link in bio.

#BushfireSurvivors #WomenLeaders by @fiona_m_lee

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Time Got Burnt @cementafestival 2026 🔥

A growing, anti-digital, speculative archive that’s a bit chaotic and quietly political - burning time together instead of limestone.

@kandosmuseum until 4pm Saturday and 10am - 2pm Sunday. taken in Kandos Museum by @fiona_m_lee

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From a timber mill on Biripi Country to Cementa26 in Kandos, Fiona Lee’s practice arrives with urgency, dissent and deep attention to place.

We’re thrilled to welcome Fiona Lee @fiona_m_lee to Cementa26.

Fiona is an installation artist whose practice is inseparable from political dissent and climate activism. She lives on the edge of the Great Dividing Range In Elands, NSW, on Biripi Country, and works from a ramshackle old timber mill.

Working across sculpture, video, sound and expanded photomedia, Fiona’s installations often respond to places shaped by industry and climate change. Her practice questions and pushes back against the systems that have transformed these post-natural environments.

See her work as part of Cementa26, curated by Sebastian Henry-Jones @turbochargedseb, 17–20 September 2026 in Kandos.

Cementa26 is proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and the Australian Government through Creative Australia.

Cementa26 is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. by @fiona_m_lee

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Back in Kandos for my second Cementa residency. Searching for touchstones of geological and industrial time + lived experience - the starting point for collective stories 🖤 taken in Wayout Artspace by @fiona_m_lee

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I’m happy to announce that my work Artefact of an Uncertain Future (LD359-623) 2024 has been acquired by @muswellbrookartscentre through the Max Watters Bequest.

It couldn’t have found a more suitable location, as Muswellbrook is not only a town shaped by coal mining but also one at the centre of energy transition discussions. This makes it the perfect home for Artefact of an Uncertain Future (LD359-623).

This work was made part of the Liddell WORKS Artist in Residence Program 2023 @liddellcreative @artsupperhunter

As part of the residency, I had access to remarkable wooden patterns used for casting metal power station replacement parts. Being able to replicate these parts inspired me to envision their potential in innovative, clean energy technologies within speculative machines of the future.

📸 Christopher Dewar and Tobais Spitzer taken in Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre by @fiona_m_lee

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Untitled (Sunday arvo 241124)

Made on the beach at People's Blockade of the World's Largest Coal Port, Muloobinba/Newcastle 2024 @risingtide.aus

Seaweed, sand and saltwater photographic lumen 🧟

Instead of using a camera to capture an image and memory of the blockade, I've used black and white photography paper and elements of the site. I wanted the work to feel kind of like the essence of the event (but it honestly probs needs some smears of sunscreen and state oppression stamped on it) taken in Horseshoe Beach, Newcastle by @fiona_m_lee

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Flesh Vestige (detail) 2024, latex.

These are latex skins of branches. They were supposed to be like ghosts of the trees in the state forest near me that’s been smashed by logging but they read like corporeal, remnants of flesh. Like dead pigs strung up in a butcher shop. Or tree condoms as my friend called them. What I was trying to do was create a conversation about what has been lost in our natural world. It was part of my solo exhibition Future Critical @thecreatorincubator May 2024. by @fiona_m_lee

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⚠️ FLASH WARNING ⚠️

NET ZERO shown @thelockupartspace last year as part of the epic arts party that was The Bender curated by @zana_jane_ 🖤💀

The video component of this work was created during my residency @lighthouseartsnewcastle where I had spectacular views of Newcastle Harbour (also the world’s largest coal port) and movements of coal ships 🚢

#art #artist #protest #artasactivism #australianartist #newcastlensw taken in The Lock-Up by @fiona_m_lee

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Carbon Tax 2021
Three channel video with sound, posters & wheat paste.
3 minutes 19 seconds on 6x3m paste up part of my show Unpreparable @maitlandregionalartgallery in 2021.

This is my first ever video and it shows a timeline of destruction and regrowth. Videos left to right: actual footage my brother in law took of my house burning down in the Black Summer Bushfires (8.11.19). The audio is him saying FUCKKKK FUCKKKK FUCKKKK overlaid with the serene bird sounds from the following videos. The middle video was taken after the site was finally cleared by government contractors about 12 months later. It’s the slab where the house once sat. A brown quail scuttles over the cement, noisy friar birds call in the background and the trees away in the breeze. The right video is the same site another six months on, shot in winter. Weeds had overgrown the slab and died and I’ve filmed myself within them searching for something recognisable and possibly hope.

I absolutely love the title Carbon Tax because I think it so perfectly links the issue of climate change with personal loss. Who is being taxed? It’s not polluting companies, it’s everyday people like me.

I did an artist talk with Glen Albrecht when the show was up. It really helped shape the way I think about the body of work. Unpreparable was not yet a word, but in the context of a heating world and increased catastrophic bushfires it os now part of my lexicon - perhaps others. We can’t prepare our way out of the climate crisis. The work Carbon Tax was also discussed a lot and I now consider it a visual representation of solistalgia, a term Glen coined to describe how landscapes change beyond recognition.

Image courtesy @maitlandregionalartgallery taken in Maitland Regional Art Gallery by @fiona_m_lee

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This is a cast resin shirt straight out of the mould. It looks so different depending on where the light source is. I’m not sure which I like best. What is your fav? Halp!

#muloobinba #bushfiresurvivorsforclimateaction #artistsforclimateaction @thecreatorincubator #thecreatorincubator #artcontemporani #installationart #politicalart #bushfiresaustralia #bushfirecrisis #climateactionnow #australianartist #womanartist #resincasting #climatechangeart taken in The Creator Incubator by @fiona_m_lee

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I’m excited to announce my work “If not now, when?” has been acquired by @newcastleartgalleryaustralia 😊

‘If not now, when?’ is a three metre wall work made of dripping metal from the family ute lost in the 2019/2020 climate fuelled bushfires. It was born out of frustration at the political rhetoric that erupted in the days after losing my home to these fires. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had said ‘now wasn’t the time to talk about climate change.’ I ask ‘If not now, when?’ as I have seen for myself that climate change is not a future threat -it is happening now, to my communities and others who face similar threats now

#ArtistsForClimateAction #BushfireSurvivorsForClimateAction #thecreatorincubator @thecreatorincubator taken in Newcastle Art Gallery by @fiona_m_lee

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