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Fi Bailey, Dundee

(above) Portrait with red rubber band by Chris Dooks (2019)
I am a multi-disciplinary artist, currently focussed on developing drawings and paintings on found surfaces.
I create images that blend real and imaginary spaces together, representing my internal world.
Awards + selected work
Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize selection 2026 shortlisted, Imaginary World Records (pencil drawing on found ledger pages)
Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award: Dundee, 2024, for mentorship
VAS North, Inverness, 2022, Minutes (film)
The Procreate Project Archive, Lewisham, 2021 It's Not Supposed to Be Fun (installation)
Creative Scotland Create:Inclusion 2020 Development with medical archives + film
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, February 2020, guest artist for Audacious Women Festival Scotland (talk/installation)
Residencies
29.9.26 - 30.10.26, Hospitalfield, Scotland, awarded
23.9.19 - 26.9.19, Cove Park, Scotland, self funded
1.6.18 - 1.10.18, Lenka Clayton's Artists Residency in Motherhood, self directed
Group Exhibitions
Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize selection 2026 shortlisted
4.10.26 Drawing Relay, Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize, London
24.11.23 -13.12.23 Do you hear us...are you listening? Spilt Milk Gallery CIC
8.3.21 – 11.4.21 If Not Now, When? Spilt Milk Gallery, Online Exhibition
29.9.19 – 12.10.19 Birth Story Retold, Re:birth Spilt Milk Member’s Show, Gallery One, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh
30.8.19 – 15.9.19 Let-up, installation Porty Art Walk, Edinburgh
21/6/19 By Moonlight, Leith School of Art Contemporary Art Practice Show, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
27/10/18 – 05/11/18 Oh Mother - Spilt Milk Member’s Show, Custom House, Edinburgh
2018 Project with Artlink, Lothians: exploring the high school environment with pupils on the autism spectrum
2018 This is What You’re Looking For, installation Porty Art Walk, Edinburgh
2018 June – 2019 June Artist Residency In Motherhood
2017 Making Signals collage Inchmore Gallery, Inverness
2016 The Mongolia Project: Journeys
2010 Taller Abierto (Open Studio), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008: Open Exhibition, Putney School of Art, London
See below for full C.V.

Study for Dream Houses, graphite + HB, 59.4cm x 42cm
C.V.
Awards + selected work
Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize December 2023-2024 Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award: Dundee
April 2023 The Procreate Project Archive, Lewisham It's Not Supposed to Be Fun
December 2022 Visual Arts Scotland North, Inverness Film: Minutes
Creative Scotland Create:Inclusion 2020 Project exploring moving image: Through an Open Door
Exhibitions
Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize selection 2026 shortlisted
4.10.26 Drawing Relay, Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize, London
24.11.23 -13.12.23 Do you hear us...are you listening? Spilt Milk Gallery CIC
8.3.21 – 11.4.21 If Not Now, When? Spilt Milk Gallery, Online Exhibition
21.2.20 - 23.2.20 Through An Open Door, Artist's Talk + installation Audacious Women Festival, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
29.9.19 – 12.10.19 Birth Story Retold, Re:birth Spilt Milk Member’s Show, Gallery One, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh
30.8.19 – 15.9.19 Let-up, installation Porty Art Walk, Edinburgh
21/6/19 By Moonlight, Leith School of Art Contemporary Art Practice Show, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
27/10/18 – 05/11/18 Oh Mother - Spilt Milk Member’s Show, Custom House, Edinburgh
2018 Project with Artlink, Lothians: exploring the high school environment with pupils on the autism spectrum
2018 This is What You’re Looking For, installation Porty Art Walk, Edinburgh
2018 June – 2019 June Artist Residency In Motherhood
2017 Making Signals collage Inchmore Gallery, Inverness
2016 The Mongolia Project: Journeys
2010 Taller Abierto (Open Studio), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008: Open Exhibition, Putney School of Art, London
Events
2020 Creative Mornings Edinburgh (Guest Speaker) Spectrum
2020 Artist's talk: Escaping the Asylum, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2018 (Presenter) at CILIP Annual Conference, How Bibliotherapy is Empowering & Enabling People in Midlothian, Dundee, (5/6/18)
2018 (Presenter) Midlothian Libraries Bibliotherapy Service: Increasing confidence, self-esteem and emotional
literacy, Holyrood’s Libraries in Scotland Case Study (NASUWT, 07/02/18)
2018 (Presenter) Bibliotherapy - Empowering and Enabling People Through The Written Word (Glasgow Caledonian University, 26/01/18)
Publications
2018 Chapter 6: Long term impacts of bibliotherapy groups: reading and writing together. In: Brewster, L., Mcnicol, S. Bibliotherapy. Facet. August 2018, Bailey, F.
2018 Evaluation of Midlothian Libraries Bibliotherapy Service, King, R, Bailey, F.
2017 Exploring Reading Habits Contributer: Words Work Well Scotland. Bailey, F.
Residencies
29.9.26 - 30.10.26, Hospitalfield, Scotland, awarded
23.9.19 - 26.9.19, Cove Park, Scotland, self funded
1.6.18 - 1.10.18, Lenka Clayton's Artists Residency in Motherhood, self directed
Education
2020 Diploma in Transformational Coaching: Animas Centre for Coaching
2018 – 2019 Leith School of Art: Contemporary Art Practice
2013 – 2015 Edinburgh Napier University: Master of Arts Degree in Creative Writing with Distinction
2009 – 2010 Buenos Aires, Argentina Tuition with Prof. Florencia F. Frank
2008 – 2009 University of Hull: Relationship Psychotherapy - Advanced University Diploma
2007 – 2009 Putney School of Art & Design: Painting & Drawing part-time
1997 – 2000 University of Brighton: Adult Nursing DipHE - with additional degree equivalent (degree modules including Critical Care, and Death & Dying in Contemporary Society 2000- 2008)
1995 Kent Institute of Art & Design: Foundation in Art & Design
Professional experience
2018 – current Self-employed artist, facilitator, mentor
2016 – 2018 Bibliotherapist at Midlothian Libraries
2012 – 2016 Maternity Leave and Master's Student
2009 – 2012 English Language Teacher, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008 – 2009 Nurse Specialist in Family Liaison King’s College Hospital, London
2007 – 2008 Voluntary Couple’s Counsellor, Relate, Kingston
2005 – 2007 Senior Clinical Research Nurse, Heart Lung Centre, London
2000 - 2005 Critical Care Nurse, London and Australia
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