Fiona Amundsen

Fiona Amundsen is an artist and writer who has exhibited widely throughout the Asia Pacific region, United States and Europe. She is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design (AUT University) and recently completed her PhD (Monash University) which explored alternative modalities for memorialising stories and experiences associated with the Asia-Pacific War (WWII). The exhibition that resulted from this research—A Body that Lives (2018)—has been nominated for the 2020 ‘Walters Prize’, Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious art award. In 2019 she was awarded a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award which enabled her to begin the initial research for Coming back to Life (2019 – ), a photo-filmic-writing project that explores relationships between Cold War military nuclear technologies, military-capitalism, nuclear environmental destruction and spirituality.