FIONA ABICARE completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (1994), Honours in Sculpture at RMIT University (1999) and a Masters of Arts in Interior Design at RMIT University (2006). She has been awarded grants from local, state and federal funding agencies, and undertook an Australia Council London Studio residency in 2012.
Abicare has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including, most recently, Fiona Abicare, Guy Benfield, Oliver Henry, Animal House Fine Arts, Melbourne, (2024); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, (2023); A Thousand Different Angles, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, (2022); Rose Moon, West Space, Melbourne, (2019); A Stitch in Time, Hamilton Gallery Hamilton, (2019); I DON’T RHYME RIGHT NOW, Sarah Scout Presents, (2019); Auto Body Works, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, (2018); The Enigma Code, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, (2018); Spring 1883, (2014/18); Americano, Sarah Scout Presents (2016); Why not walk backward, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, (2014); Scandinavian Freestyle, Hero Building, (2013); NEW11, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, (2011) and COVERS, Project Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2009).
Abicare’s work is held in public and private collections across Australia including the National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University and the University of Melbourne.