Author Archives: Fiona Kelly McGregor
THE TRAP
(2026) Novel BRUTALITY WORE THE BADGE BIGOTRY WROTE THE LAW Sydney, 1942: a city in wartime. Nightclubs are raided, the sly-grog trade thrives and public toilets become the hunting grounds for corrupt police running an entrapment scheme. As journalists, lawyers … Continue reading
MOVING MASKS
April-June 2020. A performance series done in response to the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the surface humorous, Moving Masks became a project about place, and connection. It also references the long history of performative self-portraiture, with a … Continue reading
BURIED NOT DEAD
(2021) essays ***SHORTLISTED VICTORIAN PREMIERS LITERARY AWARD*** Buried Not Dead is a collection of essays on art, performance, literature, sexuality and the life of the city. It features artists, writers and activists, some internationally renowned, like Marina Abramović and Mike … Continue reading
COLLABORATIONS
The Collaborations shown in the slideshow above are: ‘Resurrection’ by Sheree Rose. With Aaron Sinclair. UNSW Galleries, for The Patient, 2016. photo: John Douglas ‘Font’ by senVoodoo Artspace, Sydney, 2007 photo: Waded ‘Arterial’ by senVoodoo, 2005 Performance Space, Sydney, 2005 … Continue reading
A NOVEL IDEA
‘A Novel Idea’, Melbourne Writers Festival, September 2019. Asked to do a performance for my photoessay A novel Idea, I presented a sort of anti-performance; a literal embodiment of the writer at work.
Resurrection
Credit: ‘Resurrection’ by Sheree Rose.With Aaron Sinclair.UNSW Galleries, for The Patient, 2016.photo: John Douglas
A NOVEL IDEA
(2019) – photoessay A photoessay which presents a unique, intimate portrait of an author at work. A tongue-in-cheek rumination on the process of novel-writing through the rubric of endurance performance. Created during the final years of the writing of Fiona’s … Continue reading
EMERGENCY
Emergency is a performance by my former company senVoodoo, co-founded with AñA Wojak in 1998. Continue reading