Fiona Berry

FIONA BERRY (b. 1996) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist. She is about to commence her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2025–2027), holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Drawing School, London (2019), and received a First-Class BA (Hons) in Intermedia Art from Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (2018).

Berry’s multidisciplinary practice employs drawing and sculpture as tools for storytelling and world-building. Her materials include paper, wood, papier-mâché, metal, and textiles. Her drawings are influenced by the transcendent inquiry of automatic drawing and colour field painting, while her aesthetic draws on folklore and mythology - mundane materials appearing as though imbued with symbolic purpose. Through destruction, instinct, and close attention to nuance, Berry unsettles traditional hierarchies of material and skill. She draws inspiration from the image-world and craft practices of children, fantasy, carnivals, archaeology, and global mythologies. Her figures, recognisable yet altered, emerge from the mythical imaginary and are enlisted as supportive presences to confront life’s challenges and probe its mysteries. Her work interrogates the norms and conditions that shape our relationship to place, identity, gender, and ownership.