PUBLIC PRACTICE
2018
37°57'02.5"S 144°38'02.0"E revisited
Deakin University’s Anthropocene Campus, Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria. Immersive neon, sound installation.
Skypescape
Co-curated with Dr Maggie McCormick, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania.
2017
37°57'02.05"S 144°38'02.0"E - Treatment 2017: Flightlines, Western Treatment Plant. Commissioned by Deakin University, Melbourne Water and Wyndham City Council.
2016
Are You Here –Station Pier, Port Melbourne commissioned by the City of Port Phillip.
2015
Crossings – Performing Mobilities, RMIT University/MoreArt, City of Moreland.
2015
contain yourself - Maribyrnong City Council, Footscray.
2013 – 2015
Curator Urban Laboratory: City of Melbourne (2013) City of Pt Phillip (2015) & RMIT research collaboration.
http://urbanlaboratory.tumblr.com
2011 – 2013
Noble Park Public Art Project: …a place for gathering. 16m strung text neon piece and sound work. Commissioned by City of Greater Dandenong. http://fionahillary.wix.com/aplaceforgathering
2013
Peace Anthology Melbourne Projection Space Darkhorse Experiment, Melbourne.
2012 – 2013
Skypetrait – Intercontinental Faces - Reutlingen University/RMIT University. http://www.skypetrait.com/
2010
Lygon Street Public Art Project: enlightenment Shortlisted
2010
Takeaway Grassland City of Melbourne Laneways Commissions Shortlisted
2008
RMIT/ Monash University Public Art Research project – Palazzo Vaj – Prato, Italy.
Memorial project; ‘atherton street' memorialising the ‘slum clearing’ in Fitzroy.
2007
Positive Binaries, text based installations in various locations: Platform, Majorca House & Ian Potter Museum, MUDFEST.
AWARDS & INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT
2015
Interrogating Space: The Urban laboratory, Cities in a Climate of Change, International Public Art Awards 2015, Auckland University, New Zealand.
2014
RMIT University Teaching Excellence – Outstanding Training Initiative of the Year Award, Vocational Education (Commendation)
2013 – 2018
Board Member – The Gertrude Projection Association
2013
International Specialised Skills Fellowship: Birmingham, Bristol, London, UK. Wellington, NZ.
2012
Guest speaker, City, Public Art & Cultural Ecology, Green Building China 2012, Shanghai, China.
Guest speaker, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
PUBLICATIONS
Hillary, F. (2018) “A situated practice”, The Journal of Public Space, 3(2), pp. 149-166. doi: https://doi.org/10.32891/jps.v3i2.1113
https://www.journalpublicspace.org/index.php/jps/article/view/1113
Shanti Sumartojo, Jordan Lacey, and Fiona Hillary 2017 contain yourself: technology, the city and atmospheric intervention Media International Australia Vol 165, Issue 1, pp. 90 – 102. First Published September 6, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X17726888
Hillary, F. & Hogg, G. (2016) ‘Interrogating Space: the Urban Laboratory’, in Grierson, E. Transformations: Art and the City, Intellect, UK. (Pending publication)
Hillary, F. & Sumartojo, S. “Empty-Nursery Blue: On Atmosphere, Meaning and Methodology in Melbourne Street Art" Public Art Dialogue 2014.
REPORTS
Hillary, F. (2015) Public Art: Access all areas. Higher Education and Skills Group Overseas Fellowship Report, ISS Institute, Melbourne.
Ellis, N. & Hillary, F. (2014) The Gertrude Street Projection Festival Evaluation, The Gertrude Projection Association, Melbourne.
EDUCATION
2016
PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria.
2009
Masters of Art, Art in Public Space, with Distinction, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria.
2004
Bachelor of Visual Arts & University Art Prize, Edith Cowan University, Bunbury, WA.
1999
Graduate Diploma in Adult Education and Training, University of South Australia.
1996
Graduate Diploma Social Sciences, Development Studies, Flinders University of South Australia. Thesis: The impact in Guatemala of political and economic development on the implementation of the UN Convention on the rights of the child.
1992
Bachelor of Arts, Politics/Psychology, Flinders University of South Australia.
EMPLOYMENT
Program Manager – Masters of Art in Public Space School of Art - RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria.