Fiona Mountney

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    Memories of Home
    Memories of Home
    Framing the Past
    Framing the Past
    Collage
    Collage
    Old car
    Old car
    Memory
    Memory
    Mobile Home
    Mobile Home
    Installation shot.
    Mobile Home
    Mobile Home
    The Threads that Bind
    The Threads that Bind
    Detail from 'Mobile Home'
    Detail; Window frame and brickwork
    Detail; Window frame and brickwork
    Paper crockery
    Paper crockery
    Paper Crockery
    Paper Crockery
    What's behind the curtain?
    What's behind the curtain?
    Reflecting on the dualities of life, the good and the bad.
    What does 'Home' look like?
    What does 'Home' look like?
    A small collage of images taken from furniture and home improvement magazines.
    House
    House
    House, bricks and beams
    House, bricks and beams
    Installation shot.
    Home
    Home
    Selfies and descriptions of what home means to my friends and family.
    Mass Migration
    Mass Migration
    'Toying' around with the idea of mass global movements through figurines, dolls and toys.
    3 little ladies
    3 little ladies
    Kokeshi dolls made of Wax, Plaster and Bronze.
    Canary Wharf Blazer
    Canary Wharf Blazer
    Hand Sewn image of Canary Wharf stitched onto a blazer.
    'Wharf Wear'
    'Wharf Wear'
    A flattened outfit designed around the ideas of the workers of Canary Wharf.
    The Presence of Absence
    The Presence of Absence
    Images of St Pancras church and the Crypt Gallery printed onto paper and hand sewn together to create a shirt.
    Memories of Home
    Memories of Home
    Framing the Past
    Framing the Past
    Collage
    Collage
    Old car
    Old car
    Memory
    Memory
    Mobile Home
    Mobile Home
    Installation shot.
    Mobile Home
    Mobile Home
    The Threads that Bind
    The Threads that Bind
    Detail from 'Mobile Home'
    Detail; Window frame and brickwork
    Detail; Window frame and brickwork
    Paper crockery
    Paper crockery
    Paper Crockery
    Paper Crockery
    What's behind the curtain?
    What's behind the curtain?
    Reflecting on the dualities of life, the good and the bad.
    What does 'Home' look like?
    What does 'Home' look like?
    A small collage of images taken from furniture and home improvement magazines.
    House
    House
    House, bricks and beams
    House, bricks and beams
    Installation shot.
    Home
    Home
    Selfies and descriptions of what home means to my friends and family.
    Mass Migration
    Mass Migration
    'Toying' around with the idea of mass global movements through figurines, dolls and toys.
    3 little ladies
    3 little ladies
    Kokeshi dolls made of Wax, Plaster and Bronze.
    Canary Wharf Blazer
    Canary Wharf Blazer
    Hand Sewn image of Canary Wharf stitched onto a blazer.
    'Wharf Wear'
    'Wharf Wear'
    A flattened outfit designed around the ideas of the workers of Canary Wharf.
    The Presence of Absence
    The Presence of Absence
    Images of St Pancras church and the Crypt Gallery printed onto paper and hand sewn together to create a shirt.


    My practice really started when I found boxes upon boxes of my grandparents memorabilia, I delved into their lives, piecing together their time apart during the second world war, my grandfather was a prisoner of war in Burma, and my grandmother kept the house running, whilst she waited for his return. 
    Finding this hidden history led me on a journey attempting to encapsulate home, domesticity and the everyday, centring around the idea of curating our own homes whilst considering factors such as place, identity, memory, nostalgia, impermanence and our own human fragility.


    Home means something different to each of us. We all have a unique opinion of what and where it is, it can be a changeable and movable idea, it can be something that we each take with us or simply a fixed location or point in time. 
    My art practice has been an exploration of this notion of home, whether it's a safe place, a haven or a place to escape from, somewhere we can shelter or simply a place that provides us with our basic needs, a place that comforts or somewhere we can just be ourselves. Home can be so many things.


    Primarily I am a collage artist, layering thoughts and ideas, gathering and reordering materials, regenerating old newspapers and magazines or hand sewing significant images and photographs into new forms. I use paper, as like us, it can be fragile yet tactile, it can hold scars and creases made with time. By hand sewing and using threads to bind these images on paper together I feel I have added some texture and made a connection to the piece, it is personal, handmade and imperfect. 

    My work references some of my own life experiences but is also influenced by the work and the themes within the work of Laure Provoust, Grayson Perry, Mona Hatoum, Annette Messager, Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin and Do ho Suh to name but a few.