After completing a BSc (hons) Chemistry, Fiona McGurk worked as a development chemist for 15 yrs before completing a BA (hons) Painting, Edinburgh College of Art in 2012.
Fiona has been the recipient of a number of awards; Visual Artists and Craft Maker Award (2021), Creative Scotland Open Project Fund Award (2019), The Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Award (2016), RSA: New Contemporaries 2013 and The Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship (2012 and 2010). She has exhibited in the UK and further afield; New York, Japan, Greece, Singapore and Germany and has undertaken residencies nationally and internationally; Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath, Scotland (2021), NARS Foundation, New York (2019), 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan (2016), Pharmaceutical Research Centre, CMAC, University of Strathclyde (2013/2014), Snehta|Athens, Greece (2012).
Fiona is a studio holder at Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
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