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Fiona Ones’ project titled RADIUS finds the artist exploring the nature of creativity within the confines of her studio and home during the first wave of lockdown earlier this year. The Online Viewing Room brings together a one-off series of photograms titled 'Sun Salutation' and drawings titled 'Colour Project' which utilise plant-based dyes produced by the artist insitu. Ones' practice typically encompass photography and drawings, however in these unusual few months, the day-to-day rhythm in the studio seemingly altered; almost as if time had slowed down. The act of looking grew increasingly important and surpassed her normal studio routines. In absorbing her immediate surroundings and reflecting on this different sense of time, the works produced in this project will never be repeated again.
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SUN SALUTATION
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During the first wave of lockdown, the rigours of the daily routine for Ones were mediated between her natural environment and the passing of time. Utilising both found and everyday items such as pebbles, a fallen bee and grains of rice then bleaching their outlines using the sun to create lesions against papers. These papers are naturally dyed and sourced from her nearby hometown. Ones describes laying the objects and papers on the studio floor and just watching them bathe in the glorious sunshine. The artist focuses on temporality and the measuring of time, not by hours or by days but by means of an alternative analogue on paper.The photograms act as a visual clock capturing the passing of both spring and summer gone. The works draw focus to the constant during this period of isolation and ongoing uncertainty.
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Colour Project
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The Colour Project is a series of works featuring Ones' drawings and pigments sourced from plant-based materials within the radius of her studio and home. Utilising an antique needle on the paper, she calls these ’needle drawings’. The process are meditations itself on the artist's daily experience in isolation.
Ones’ journey into natural pigments begins with the yellow forsythia flower. And from there, other pigments evolved using other flora and even everyday items often overlooked such as leftovers from the kitchen: citron peels, leeks and red beets. The artist refers to “cooking” these colour recipes.
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Drawing needles, 2020. Ink and needledrawing on paper
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"[The act of looking] is to see the beauty in what actually lies in front of you and to look deeper into things that one is already familiar with” -the artist
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Fiona OnesDrawing Colours, 2020Hand made Ink on paper
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Fiona OnesNeedledrawing, 2020Pencil, ink, needledrawing on paper
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About the Artist
FIONA ONES' (b.1986, Germany) primary interest lies within the shifting boundaries within the photographic medium. The artist is also concerned with exploring the parallel between photography and drawing. Using experimental techniques, her practice has evolved to challenge the engagement with surface, light, negative and positive and the trace; the sense of an invisible ‘apparatus’ (the camera, pen or needle).
Ones completed a BFA in photography and design at Parsons School of Design in New York, where she subsequently spent five years working as a designer and creative director in various of fields including fashion and film, before returning to Munich to set up a creative studio. Recently completed residencies in 2019 include: Thread Senegal (Josef & Anni Albers Foundation) & Beirut Art Residency, Lebanon. The artist has exhibited at UNSEEN Fair (2016 & 2018), Amsterdam, PhotoLondon (2017 & 2020), a group show in Kunstverien Munich (2015) and CameraWorks, Berlin (2015) as well as Daniel Cooney Fine Arts Gallery, New York (2009); Espace Commines, Paris (2008); Slideluck Potshow, Berlin (2010); Gallery Bar, New York (2010) and Calumet Gallery, New York (2009).
Fiona Ones | Radius
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