Fiona Roberts
MA Fine Art
I work across disciplines exploring the phenomenology of what it is to be human and how we want to perceive what we understand.
I make in order to answer questions using my own visual language to communicate my experience of the world. The themes of my practice are attachment, memory and ‘truthful lies’ the narratives that we live by to navigate our lives.
During my MA studies I created Rabbit, he is a witness to my life and broader narratives around inter-generational trauma and colonial intersections.
Rabbit appeared.
A falling in love, a loss, a search, a quest, discovery, a story arc, an adventure
He became me, I became him
He was my shadow, a ghost, a tapping on my shoulder
And then when the haunting was done
He watched.
Rabbit is a witness, participant, victim, aggressor, a willing accomplice, complicit bystander
Some of it was true, some of it was not
All of it was a truth and a lie.
Not necessarily true, not necessarily a lie, all of it necessary
