Fiona McMonagle was selected as a finalist in the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG)'s National Works on Paper Prize.

Established in 1998, the prize supports and promotes contemporary Australian artists working on or with paper a $15,000 major acquisitive award. The exhibition of finalists is on display at MPRG until 21 February 2021. 

Image: Fiona McMonagle, Rachel Meaghan Markle, 2020

Fiona McMonagle has been shortlisted for the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery's National Works on Paper Prize (NWOP).

The NWOP exhibition will be held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 5 December 2020 until 21 February 2021.

To enquire about works, please contact the gallery. 

Image: Fiona McMonagle Untitled, 2019

In a video by Bayside Gallery, Fiona McMonagle provides insights into pushing boundaries with her work.

While her solo exhibition, Classy, opened at ⁠Bayside Gallery in March 2020, it is temporarily closed until further notice.

In the meantime, McMonagle's most recent works for the exhibition are available to view online. To enquire about available works, please contact the gallery.⁠

Image: Fiona McMonagle, Apparantly I'm an apple, 2020

Fiona McMonagle is known for her watercolours that probe the darker side of pedestrian life in the suburbs. Her solo exhibition, Classy, opened at ⁠Bayside Gallery in March 2020.

Bayside Gallery is temporarily closed until further notice. In the meantime, McMonagle's most recent works in the exhibition are available to view online.

Image: Fiona McMonagle, Highlighting, 2020, oil on canvas, 92 x 70 cm

Fiona McMonagle is well known for her gritty images that probe the darker side of pedestrian life in the suburbs. Her solo exhibition at Bayside Gallery, Classy, features watercolour and oil paintings and video works that span the last decade, as well as new paintings.

This major survey exhibition of McMonagle's practice opens on Saturday 14 March and is on display until 10 May 2020.

To enquire about available works, please contact the gallery.

Image: Fiona McMonagle, Selfie, 2020

Fiona McMonagle's Duke, 2017, is now showing in Ways of Seeing, an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia highlighting recent acquisitions from the collection.

Ways of Seeing runs until 22 April 2019.

Fiona McMonagle has been selected as a finalist in Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award for her work, The park at the end of my road, 2015-6 (still pictured), an animation created from her paintings.

The inaugural $30,000 acquisitive prize, to be held every three years, has been established to showcase Australian artists who work in the medium of watercolour.

The exhibition opens on 2 December 2018 and runs until 17 March 2019.

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Fiona McMonagle is included in So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history, now showing until 1 October 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. 

The exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history. Forming part of the Portrait Gallery’s twentieth birthday celebrations, the exhibition enriches the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.

Fiona's first solo exhibition at the gallery opens in November. To join our waiting list, please click here.

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Congratulations to Fiona McMonagle who has been selected as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize for her work, Tess, 2017 (pictured).

 The Sunshine Coast Art Prize is a $25,000 acquistive art award for a 2-dimensional artwork. 

The exhibition runs from 16 August until 14 October 2018. Fiona's first solo exhibition at the gallery opens in October. To join the waiting list, contact the gallery.

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Fiona McMonagle has been selected as a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize for her painting, Competition, 2018 (pictured).

The prize was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established female artists in Australia, with the $35,000 prize the richest professional art prize for women in Australia.

The winner will be announced on 15 June, with the exhibition running until 24 June at Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney.

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Congratulations to Fiona McMonagle, selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize for her portrait Sangeeta Sandrasegar, 2018 (pictured).

The work will be exhibited as part of the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 12 May until 9 September 2018.

For further details, please click here.

Congratulations to Fiona McMonagle who has been selected as a finalist in the Geelong Art Prize for her work, Princess, 2018 (pictured).

The Geelong Art Prize is a $30,000 acquistive art award and biennial exhibition that showcases the best of contemporary Australian painting practice.

The winner will be announced on 9 June, with the exhibition running at Geelong Gallery from 9 June until 19 August 2018.

For further details, please click here.

Congratulations to Fiona McMonagle who has been selected as a finalist in the Bayside Art Prize for her work, Wingmen, 2017 (pictured).

The Bayside Art Prize is a $15,000 acquisitive prize awarded for a painting. The judging panel includes Charlotte Day, Director, Monash University Museum of Art; Annika Kristensen, Curator, ACCA, and Joanna Bosse, Curator, the Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre.

The winner will be announced on 17 May and the exhibition will run from 18 May until 8 July at the Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre.

For further details, please click here.

Fiona McMonagle is included in Play On: The art of sport, a NETS Victoria and Ian Potter Museum of Art touring exhibition celebrating 10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize. The exhibition opens at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery on 2 March and runs until 29 April 2018. 

McMonagle's first solo exhibition at the gallery will open in October 2018; please contact the gallery to request a preview.

Fiona McMonagle is included in Let's Play: The Art of Our Time, an exhibition featuring a range of works that convey how toys, role-play, technology and the imagination have become a central component of the art of our time. McMonagle and other contemporary artists included in the exhibition focus on ways that play and games can be used to investigate ideas to do with self-identity, gender stereotypes, consumerism and globalisation.

The exhibition runs from 15 December 2017 until 25 February 2018 at Bunjil Place Gallery.

McMonagle's first solo exhibition at the gallery will open in October 2018; please contact the gallery to request a preview.

Fiona McMonagle features in the current issue of Art Collector. In the publication's '50 Things Collectors Need to Know' annual feature, McMonagle is recognised as an artist attracting curatorial attention. McMonagle's works, including watercolours described by Ashley Crawford as 'rendered with a strange nostalgia and subjects that come to life', were included in the 2016 Adelaide Biennial, Magic Object. 

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Fiona McMonagle has been selected as a finalist in the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, with her work, The park at the end of my road, 2016 (pictured).

The triennial art prize airms to celebrate excellence and innovation in the watercolour medium.

 For further details, please click here.

Paintings by Fiona McMonagle are included in the upcoming exhibition The Popular Pet Show at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

Curated by Sarah Engledow, the exhibition features contemporary works from Australian artists Nicholas Harding, Lucy Culliton, Darren McDonald, Anna Culliton, Fiona McMonagle, Ken Done, Noel McKenna, Graeme Drendel, Robyn Sweaney, Kristin Headlam and more.

The Popular Pet Show opens on Friday 4 November 2016 and runs until Monday 13 March 2017. For further information, please click here.

Recent watercolours by Fiona McMonagle are included in Luminous: Australian Watercolours 1900–2000, on view at the National Gallery of Victoria until 21 August 2016. For further information, please click here.

Fiona McMonagle has been shortlisted for the Basil Sellers Art Prize 2016, which encourages contemporary artists to engage with the many themes within sport and to contribute to a critical reflection on all forms of sport and sporting culture in Australia. 

Working predominantly with watercolour, McMonagle makes work that pays tribute to the disaffected and the working class. Her portraits often convey a sense of melancholy and nostalgia, with a unique directness that makes for a compelling encounter between subject and viewer. Her Basil Sellers work, The Huddle, 2016 (pictured) – a work which includes audio and sculpture – takes women’s soccer as its subject.

In 2014, McMonagle won the People's Choice Award for The Ring, 2014, her installation of three large-scale watercolour portraits and an animation video.

The exhibition opens on 19 July and runs until 6 November 2016.

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Fiona McMonagle has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 National Works on Paper Prize at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery for her work, Wonky, 2014 (pictured). The prize showcases recent works by artists working in the field of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.

The exhibition opens on 16 July and runs until 11 September 2016.

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Do I Look Like I Care, a solo exhibition featuring works by Fiona McMonagle, has been curated by Dr Vincent Alessi at La Trobe University Museum of Art (LUMA). 

Over the last decade Fiona McMonagle has looked towards Melbourne's western suburbs for the subjects which populate her exquisitely and delicately executed watercolours. Generic without being stereotypical, honest without being patronizing, her work explores the trials and tribulations of teenagers and family life in sometime challenging environments. This exhibition brings together works from across the last decade investigating issues of loneliness and solitude, the navigation of teenage years, family and group dynamics and notions of being an outsider or misunderstood in a suburban world.

The exhibition opens on 4 May and runs until 8 July 2016.

To view the e-catalogue, please click here.

Fiona McMonagle has been included in the prestigious 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Curated by Lisa Slade, the biennial exhibition opens on 27 February and runs until 15 May 2016.

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