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Hugo Michell Gallery welcomes the addition of Fiona Roberts to our represented artists!
Fiona Roberts is an Australian contemporary artist whose immersive installations examine themes of psychological and physical safety. Born in Darwin and based in Adelaide, Roberts’ work explores the interplay of symbolism, superstitions, rituals, and belief systems. Her practice frequently addresses dualities such as fear and safety, attraction and discomfort, and the broader complexities of the human experience.
Roberts holds a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) from Adelaide Central School of Art and a Master of Teaching from the University of South Australia. Her solo exhibition, Hereafter, at Hugo Michell Gallery in 2024 engaged deeply with themes of mortality and transformation.
Roberts’ work explores the interplay between familiarity and latent complexity, as seen in exhibitions like Façade (2018) at Adelaide Central Gallery and Intimate Vestiges (2015) at KickArts Contemporary Arts in Cairns, which examined domestic spaces by juxtaposing the comforting aspects of home with their concealed dangers and hidden histories. She has exhibited both locally and internationally, most notably in Pure Not Proper (2018), Los Angeles, TAKE!EAT! (2015), London, and A Book Between Two Stools (2014) at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels.
She has received awards such as the BankSA Best Visual Art and Design Award at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival and has received multiple grants from the Australia Council for the Arts. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Victionary’s Dark Inspirations (Hong Kong), Dark and Fetish Art (Japan), and more recently her work was featured on the cover of Art Collector magazine.
Her works are held in national and international collections; such as the Art Gallery of Ballarat in regional Victoria, and several pieces on permanent display at Galila's POC in Brussels, Belgium.
We congratulate Fiona on her achievements and look forward to working together in the future!


Wishing you a joyful Easter long weekend!
Please note that Hugo Michell Gallery will be closed for the Easter long weekend, re-opening Tuesday 22nd April with our current exhibitions:
Richard Lewer | The stories that persist are not always true
James Dodd | SOUR DREAMS
Exhibitions continue until 10 May 2025. Please also note that the gallery will also be closed for the Anzac Day Public Holiday on 25th April.
Pictured: James Dodd, TANGY SPOIL, 2025, acrylic on canvas in powder coated aluminium tray frame, 79 x 53 cm
We’re delighted to share that Sera Waters has been selected as one of 10 finalists in the 2025 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award.
The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award celebrates the diversity and strength of Australian textile art. Now in its ninth iteration, the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award was initially established to mark Wangaratta's long and prominent history of textile manufacturing and craft making. In furthering this unique tradition and social history the award celebrates and strengthens the development of contemporary textile practice in Australia. With the significant investment of project partners, the Kyamba Foundation, prize money now stands at $40,000, representing the richest textile prize in Australia.
The 2025 finalists, selected from over 430 entries Australia wide, are contemporary artists who not only demonstrate a mastery of technique in a broad textile medium, but innovation and excellence alongside a rigorous and robust conceptual practice.
The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2025 will open on Saturday 24 May 2025 with the winner announced that day. The exhibition continues until 17 August 2025.

Pictured: Sera Waters in her studio, 2020. Photography by Sia Duff
The stories that persist are not always true

SOUR DREAMS

Navigating Necessities
Garden for an alchemist

Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
Hugo Michell Gallery are thrilled to return to Melbourne Art Fair 2025, presenting the work of two early career South Australian artists; Sam Gold and Zaachariaha Fielding, and Paul Yore as part of BEYOND 2025.
Sam Gold, Mmm I like your flow, humble little flow, 2025Stoneware porcelain and enamel, 102 x 36 x 11 cm irreg. Photography by Connor Patterson.
Sam Gold is an emerging ceramicist, who pushes the structural and conceptual capacity of clay. As objects, they materialise a kinship between Gold’s physical body, their psychological and emotional self, and the clay body, allowing Gold to explore states of futility, failure, resilience and grit, porousness yet inscrutability.
Zaachariaha Fielding, Untitled (672-24AS), 2024-25, acrylic and mixed media on Belgian linen, 199 x 294 cm, photography by Sam Roberts
Zaachariaha Fielding is a multi-disciplinary artist who hails from Mimili community on the APY Lands in far north South Australia. Fielding comes from a long line of multi-disciplinary artists and after a successful music career over the last decade, he now explores the visual language of his culture through painting.
Paul Yore’s installation ‘FUCK ME DEAD’, a vibrantly mosaiced hearse, upcycled and modified from an iconic Australian car, the ’70s Ford Fairlane, will be presented as part of Melbourne Art Fair’s 2025 BEYOND sector, curated by Anna Briers, Curator, Len Lye & Contemporary Art, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (Aotearoa), in collaboration with STATION.
Paul Yore, Fuck Me Dead (installation view, Carriageworks), 2022, mixed media assemblage comprising funeral hearse, found objects, glass, shells, LED lights, acrylic paint and plastic flooring, 592.5 x 379 x 149 cm
Melbourne Art Fair will be open from 20–23 February 2025 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Pictured (Top): Pictured: Zaachariaha Fielding, Untitled (671-24AS), 2024, acrylic and mixed media on Belgian linen, 166 x 151 cm, photography by Sam Roberts
Fiona McMonagle
Eve
Lucas Grogan
A Travel Guide

We are delighted to share our full 2025 exhibition program, please reach out to register your interest in any upcoming exhibitions.
6 February – 8 March
Fiona McMonagle | Lucas Grogan
19 February – 23 February
MELBOURNE ART FAIR
Zaachariaha Fielding | Sam Gold | Paul Yore
13 March – 5 April
Christopher Zanko | Janet Laurence
10 April – 10 May
Richard Lewer | James Dodd
15 May – 14 June
Tony Garifalakis
19 June – 19 July
Zaachariaha Fielding | Daniel To + Emma Aiston
24 July – 16 August
Clara Adolphs | Drew Spangenberg
10 September – 14 September
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
25 September – 25 October
Buku Art Centre
30 October – 29 November
Georgia Spain | Kate Mitchell
We’re thrilled that Fiona Roberts has been featured on the front cover the latest Art Collector Magazine for their ‘50 Things Collector’s should know’ issue!
About Fiona’s exhibition ‘Hereafter’ presented at Hugo Michell Gallery in 2024, Barnaby Smith writes: “The work of Fiona Roberts is an intense and demanding philosophical encounter, preoccupied as it is with nothing less than the human experience, mortality and how we experience death.”

Read the full article in the latest Art Collector Magazine, Issue 111.
Enquiries to mail@hugomichellgallery.com
Pictured: Fiona Roberts in Art Collector Magazine, issue 111, Jan-March 2025, front cover & pp. 170-171; Fiona Roberts’ ‘Hereafter’ at Hugo Michell Gallery, 2024, photography by Sam Roberts
We are thrilled to share that Richard Lewer’s 2024 body of work ‘Steve’ has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and will be presented in the NGA’s collection display in 2025-26 before touring nationally.
Richard Lewer’s ‘Steve’ is a gentle exploration of the complexity of a family coming to terms with a dementia diagnosis. Through animation and a suite of paintings on domestic Laminex tabletops, this exhibition tells the story of man named Steve presented from the perspective of his family as they cope with the effects of his illness. In addition, the artist weaves his own personal story into the work with a group of paintings that look back on personal moments from Lewer’s own life.

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