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Fiona Robertson

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Job Title
Lecturer
School or Academic Area
School of Fine Art
School or Academic Area Supervised for
School of Fine Art
Email
F.Robertson@gsa.ac.uk
Professional Address
Glasgow School of Art, Stow Building, Third Floor, 43, Shamrock Street, Glasgow G4 9LD

Biography

Fiona Robertson is a lecturer in the Painting and Printmaking department, whose expanded painting practice encompasses performance, film, drawing and sculpture. Her work explores the collisions between the social, technical and ecological systems (and crises) within which we live and the subconscious, pre-rational and intuitive nature of art-making. Across mediums, Fiona draws out this tension in overlapping, non-linear narratives mapping the boundaries of the "human"- whether in physical landscapes, memories or dreams.

Her experimental film work has been premiered at International Competitions including Oberhausen Short Film Festival and Go Short. Recent Solo exhibitions include 'more than a feeling...’, Beacon Arts Centre (2025), SALTHOUSE (2024), Garnethill Gallery, GSA, and titbits also Glasgow (2023). She regularly collaborate with performance and theatre makers and has curated exhibitions and events (see beggarsteeth.com). Her site-specific sculpture 'GREEN MAN' is located in Glasgow's Necropolis. Recent publications include a book of drawings 'INSIDE JOB, Memories of an Art School'.

https://fiona-robertson.co.uk

https://vimeo.com/fionagrobertson5091374

Research Interests

absurd, anthropocene, body, embodiment, egologies, cinematic, costume, identity, mask, non-verbal, painting, expanded painting, performance, landscape, theatre.

Current PGR Students

Georgie Mc Nichol

‘Practicing the Wild: A field guide to non-binary ecologies in painting and performance.’

Teaching

Part-time Lecturer Painting and Printmaking Department GSA 1996-present.
Roles within the department have included leading 4rth Year year by co-ordinating teaching, curriculum development, assessment and staffing, leading 3rd Year Currently teaching into years 3 and 4.

Latest Additions

  1. Robertson, Fiona (2025) I am the Great Sun.
  2. Robertson, Fiona (2025) Works on Paper made in response to Carl Lavery's 'Letters to Ana Mendieta' as part of an ongoing collaborative project.
  3. Robertson, Fiona (2025) ebbtidefloodtide.
  4. Robertson, Fiona (2025) more than a feeling... Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, Scotland, 16 May - 20 June 2025
  5. Robertson, Fiona (2024) tit-bits. Thomsons, Glasgow. ISBN 9780993120817
  6. Robertson, Fiona (2024) Inside Job, Memories of an Art School. Self published, Glasgow.
  7. Jackson, Deborah, Hodson, Elizabeth, Robertson, Fiona, Topping, Jane, Hannah, Michelle and Figgis, Laurence (2024) Class Matters: Exhibition. Annex Gallery, Stow Building, Glasgow School of Art, 29 Apr-21 May 2024
  8. Robertson, Fiona (2024) SALTHOUSE EXHIBITION.
  9. Robertson, Fiona (2023) tit-bits. Southblock Gallery, Wasps in Glasgow, 14th - 17th November 2023
  10. Robertson, Fiona (2021) The cook, the cupboard and Joan of Arc.