Fiona Cabassi is a visual artist based in Melbourne/Naarm on the lands of the Wurundjeri people. She has a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts and a Post Graduate Diploma in Multimedia. Primarily working with paper, she creates immersive installations, wall installations, suspended sculptures, smaller sculptures, and paper cut animations.
Cabassi has exhibited in group exhibitions, art prizes and has had a number of solo exhibitions, most recently in 2024 at Parallel Projects, Footscray.
In 2000 she won The Banyule Works on Paper Award and the People's Choice Award, and has been a finalist in the 2024 Paul Guest Art Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery, the National Works on Paper at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in 2012, 2014, and 2022, winning the People's Choice Award in 2022, and was runner-up in the Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize in 2009 and winner of the People's Choice Award.
Cabassi has undertaken art commissions for Bundoora Homestead Art Centre and Heide Museum of Modern Art – Heide Store. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia.
ACCESS
Free street parking is available near all Kingston Arts exhibition spaces. Dedicated mobility parking spots are located at the main entrances of Kingston Arts Centre (G1 & G2) and Shirley Burke Theatre (G3).
G1 and G2 at Kingston Arts Centre are less than 200m from Moorabbin Station. G3 at Shirley Burke Theatre is less than 200m from Parkdale Station.
All venues have automatic doors and either flat or ramp access at their main entrances. The side entry at Kingston Arts Centre & Kingston City Hall also has step-free access.
Each gallery space provides all-gender, wheelchair-accessible bathrooms.
For more details and special requirements visit our accessibility page
We are committed to providing accessibility options for all our patrons. Please reach out to our helpful staff by calling (03) 9556 4440 or emailing if you have any queries.
Image credit: Fiona Cabassi billowed checks & spotted smudges of sweeping moss (detail) 2024, acrylic, ink and pen on paper, Photo by ©JanelleLow