Fiona Van Oyen - InPrint Resident 2025

During November Caselberg Trust will host Fiona Van Oyen as the InPrint resident for 2025.

Biography

Fiona began her printmaking journey at the University of Canterbury under the tutelage of Barry Cleavin, going on to work as a Medical Illustrator and teacher of Art and Printmaking within secondary schools for many years. In 2017 she completed a Master of Fine Arts, with distinction, at the Dunedin School of Art. Fiona has a family connection with the bay; her mother Ngaire Wallis, and three sisters, attended Broad Bay School for a time in their childhood. She currently lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch with her husband Hans and has two adult children.

Fiona’s printmaking practice focuses on the land and place. She enjoys working at exaggerated scale – large and small, using tropes to record the physical place while at the same time incorporating the metaphysical – the unseen or what lies beneath the surface.

Fiona is looking forward to her stay in the Caselberg House: “I’m envisaging this residency, where so many creatives have been inspired to work, can do nothing but influence ways in which I choose to visually communicate my responses to this place and its effects on me”. We look forward to welcoming her for this residency.