Fiona Robinson

Fiona Robinson (born 1949 in Springfield, Worcestershire, now Springfield, Birmingham) is a British artist of Irish heritage who draws in response to music. Robinson was elected President of the Royal West of England Academy in 2019.

Biography Robinson graduated with a BA in Fine Art and History of Art from Oxford Brookes University in 1989, followed by an MA in Fine Art from the University of Portsmouth in 1997.

Fiona Robinson's work "had its genesis in experimental studies using ink on plucked strings, made whilst listening to the music of John Cage" — Fiona Robinson Robinson explains that her drawings"are orchestrated and considered, embracing the measured tones of composers like Bach as much as the randomness of Cage."

Awarded the 2011 Drawing Prize at the Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition in Bristol, the 2007 University of Bath Painting Prize and The Brabcombe Award, Ale & Porter Arts, Bath (2006).

Robinson was an Invited Artist at the International Drawing Biennale in Kosovo, (2008). Prize-winner at the 4th International Biennale of Drawing, Polish Art Foundation, Benalla Art Gallery and The Steps Gallery, Melbourne, 2007.

Drawing Debussy, Royal West of England Academy

Robinson was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme Soul Music (radio series), Series 26, where she discussed Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy which was featured in the exhibition Drawing Debussy. [Producer: Maggie Ayre. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.]

Invited Artist International Drawing Biennale, Kosovo, 2008

Group exhibitions Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now

A British Museum touring exhibition

Prints and Drawings Room, British Museum Oriental Museum, Durham University Pier Arts Centre, Stromness Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea Cooper Gallery, Barnsley

Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration, Fitzwilliam Museum

Women with Vision, Royal West of England Academy

Selected public collections

British Museum Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Swindon Museum and Art Gallery University of Bath Polish Art Foundation, Melbourne Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, County Mayo