Fiona Bowie

Fiona Bowie is a Vancouver-based Canadian installation artist. She uses film, video, photography and sculpture, and makes "immersive environments".

Life and work

Fiona Bowie graduated from UBC (BFA) in 1990 and from the School of Contemporary Art SFU (MFA) in 1998.Canadian Who's Who, University of Toronto Press Incorporated]

1998 – 2000, Bowie was Co-Curator, Western Front Exhibitions Program , and was the editor of "~SCOPE", exhibition catalogue Western Front Exhibitions Program, 2001. [Canadian Who's Who, University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2007]

In March 2007, "Sliphost" (2006), curated by Candice Hopkins, was exhibited at the Western Front Gallery in Vancouver and will be exhibited in November 2007 at Open Space in Victoria. Hopkins said, "Sliphost plays with conventions of media, narrative, and scale and draws on the reciprocities between two disparate worlds to reconsider notions of consciousness, consumption, beauty and oblivion." [ [http://front.bc.ca/exhibitions/events/3143 Candice Hopkins, Western Front Gallery] ] According to Bowie:

Bowie is currently lead artist of "Flow", a public art commission for the City of Vancouver with Sidney Fels and Rebecca Belmore. This will be the first permanent public art work of timebased photo and media work. It is scheduled for installation at 1 Kingsway, [ [http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/corpsvcs/facility/1kingsway/whatsnew.htm City of Vancouver website] ] when the building is completed in the spring of 2008. [ [http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/newsreleases2005/NR1kingswayart.htm City of Vancouver News Release:City selects public art for 1 Kingsway ] ]

Bowie is bass player, songwriter and singer for the Vancouver three piece Chopper. Her latest soundtrack composition was performed live at Songroom in June 2006, by Jim Peers (Free Radicals), Stephen Taylor (trike).

Bowie is Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate degree programs. [ [http://www.eciad.ca/about/people/faculty/INM Faculty: Media Arts | Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design ] ]

Exhibitions

Bowie's work has been exhibited at:
*Yukon Arts Centre Museum (2007), [ [http://yukonartscentre.com/Exhibits/2007/Spring.htm Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery ] ]
*Western Front (2007) [ [http://front.bc.ca/exhibitions/events/3143 The Western Front : Exhibitions : Fiona Bowie: Slip/host ] ]
*Belkin Satellite (2006), [ [http://www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca/satellite/past/infra.html] ]
*Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver (2006) [ [http://www.pendulumgallery.bc.ca/archive06.html#public Pendulum Gallery: Archive ] ]
*New Media Symposium (2004)
*New Forms Festival (2004)
*Consolidated Works, Seattle, Washington (2002)
*Presentation House Gallery (2001) [ [http://presentationhousegall.com/miscom.html Presentation House Gallery - mis.com ] ]
*The Vancouver Art Gallery (2001) [ [http://www.marinaroy.ca/these_days.htm Marina Roy | These Days ] ]
*A Prior Video-Salon. VandeVelde, Brussels, Belgium (2000)
*Or Gallery (1998)
*the grunt gallery (1996)
*A major installation as part of Tamto Misto - Five Vancouver Artists. Galerie Mladych u Recickych, Prague,Czech Republic (1995). [ [http://www.eciad.ca/~bowiefb/|cv] ]

Publications and reviews

*Cutler, Randy Lee. Vancouver Singular Plural Vancouver Art and Economies,Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.
*Burnham, Clint. Vancouver, Akimbo, March 29th 2007.
*Burnham, Clint. "Compelling Look at how Artists use Video"Vancouver Sun,June 29th 2006.
*New Forms,exhibition catalogue, 2004.
*Devuono, Frances. "Binocular Parallax at Consolidated Works," in Artweek, December, 2002.
*Hall, Emily. "A Tale of Two Cities." The Stranger, Seattle, September 26, 2002.
*Hackett, Regina. "Binocular Parallax." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 20,2002.
*Turner,Micheal. "These Days". Art/Text, No. 75.,2001-2.
* [http://www.marinaroy.ca/these_days.htm Roy, Marina. "These Days".] Last Call Fall issue. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Publication.
*Turner, Michael. "These Days". Mix magazine 26.1 Fall, 2001.
*O'Brien, Melanie. "Mis.Com.". Last Call Summer issue,2001 . Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Publication.
*Henry, Karen. "Mis.Com.". Presentation House Exhibition Monograph, 2001.
*Green, Bethany. "Killing the Commute". ARTSCULTURE, 2000.Brock University Press.
*Mix magazine 26.1 summer 2000.
*Achong, Deanne."deliverance", OR Gallery Monograph. 1998
*Sawyer, Carol. "swell". grunt Publication Monograph.1996 ISBN 1-895329-27-2

Notes and references

* [http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/newsreleases2005/NR1kingswayart.htm "Flow", City of Vancouver News Release]
* [http://www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/index.php?id=100Clint Burnham, in "Ambiko"]
* [http://vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/misc/publicart.htmlVancouver Public Library Public Art]
* [http://city.vancouver.bc.ca/ commsvcs/oca/publicart/projects.htm City of Vancouver Public Art Projects]
* [http://artipedia.org/artsnews/exhibitions/2007/03/16/ "Artipedia"]
* [http://cat.eciad.ca/r_and_p/park-proj.htmlCentre for Art and Technology]

External links

* [http://fionabowie.org fionabowie.org]