Author Archives: Fiona Kelly McGregor
IRIS
(2022) Novel Shortlisted Miles Franklin Award Shortlisted NSW Premier’s Award Shortlisted ALS Gold Medal Shortlisted ARA Historical Novel Prize Shortlisted Voss Literary Prize Longlisted Stella Prize Longlisted BookPeople Award (formerly Booksellers’ Award) Longlisted ABDA Awards Sergeant Lillian Armfield leans forward. … Continue reading
MOVING MASKS
April-June 2020. A performance series done in response to the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the surface humorous, Moving Masks became a project about place, and connection. It also references the long history of performative self-portraiture, with a … Continue reading
BURIED NOT DEAD
(2021) essays ***SHORTLISTED VICTORIAN PREMIERS LITERARY AWARD*** Buried Not Dead is a collection of essays on art, performance, literature, sexuality and the life of the city. It features artists, writers and activists, some internationally renowned, like Marina Abramović and Mike … Continue reading
COLLABORATIONS
The Collaborations shown in the slideshow above are: ‘Resurrection’ by Sheree Rose. With Aaron Sinclair. UNSW Galleries, for The Patient, 2016. photo: John Douglas ‘Font’ by senVoodoo Artspace, Sydney, 2007 photo: Waded ‘Arterial’ by senVoodoo, 2005 Performance Space, Sydney, 2005 … Continue reading
A NOVEL IDEA
‘A Novel Idea’, Melbourne Writers Festival, September 2019. Asked to do a performance for my photoessay A novel Idea, I presented a sort of anti-performance; a literal embodiment of the writer at work.
Resurrection
Credit: ‘Resurrection’ by Sheree Rose.With Aaron Sinclair.UNSW Galleries, for The Patient, 2016.photo: John Douglas
A NOVEL IDEA
(2019) – photoessay A photoessay which presents a unique, intimate portrait of an author at work. A tongue-in-cheek rumination on the process of novel-writing through the rubric of endurance performance. Created during the final years of the writing of Fiona’s … Continue reading
EMERGENCY
Emergency is a performance by my former company senVoodoo, co-founded with AñA Wojak in 1998. Continue reading
THE KISS
The Kiss is a performance by my former company senVoodoo.
senVoodoo was co-founded with AñA Wojak in 1998. Continue reading