Fiona Goldswain

Fiona Goldswain lives and works in the beautiful Hampshire countryside.

She is a multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture and installations.

Just completed BA hons in Fine Art at UCA in Farnham.

She comes from a creative background and is historically self-taught in her art.

Including studies at Windsor and Maidenhead College. Continued at Buckinghamshire New University (previously Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College)

Formerly working in gold and silver creating decorative objects.

Her current work is inspired by the life experiences of the mature woman, exploring the narratives of deep emotional trauma with symbolic notions portrayed within her work. She is passionate about inclusion and allowing the viewer to interact with her works.

Invisibility Uncomfortability Is a culmination of personal experience and research. The narrative of objectification and commodification of females in the 21^stcentury. Society continues to view females as objects with unrealistic expectations of body shape forced upon them. With cosmetic surgery being at an all time high, Fiona seeks to dispel this narrative with natural and realistic body curves in her sculptures instilling body positivity. This immersive installation of the steel-mesh torso alongside lace-dipped plaster reliefs strung from wooden beams by red ribbons that carry the narrative of blood-ties and trauma bonds. Two reliefs are wall hung, continuing the narrative into stiff and uncomfortable clothing underpinning the notion of objectification. Suspended reliefs carry disturbing hand  prints to the breasts, indicating being ‘grabbed’ from behind by non-consensual attention.