VAN STOM, Feyona

Feyona was born in Hong Kong and has lived and worked in Hong Kong, America, China and Australia.

Received a Diploma in Fine Arts and won the Sculpture prize at Seaforth College of Fine Arts, Sydney in 1994.

Feyona has been exhibiting since 1990 in galleries and regional exhibitions as well as many charity and art auctions and art fairs in major cities in Australia, and in China, India, and the USA. 

Artworks are in collections in America, South America, Africa, Canada, Europe and the UK, in China and Japan as well as in Australia and New Zealand.

President of The Sculptors Society of NSW since 2012, and Vice President for 3 years prior to that. Feyona organises and curates the Sculptors Society exhibitions and exhibits in most of TSS exhibitions.

Has been a Director at Project 504 Art Centre in St Leonard’s, North Sydney, NSW. Participated with her gallery, and exhibited in several of the Art fairs in Sydney, NSW.

She exhibited her sculptures from 2005 at SOFA, NEW YORK (The International exhibition of Sculptures, Objects and Functional Art) for 7 years and has also exhibited at SOFA, Chicago and at Art Palm Beach, USA.

Feyona has also exhibited at Muse gallery in Columbus, Ohio, Salishan Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and Show of Hands in Philadelphia, USA.

Feyona was invited to build a 3 metre tall sculpture in Changsha, Hunan Province in China for the new International Wetlands Sculpture Parks in 2015  –  with 26 other international sculptors making their works. Her bronze sculpture stands tall near the water’s edge.

Feyona had a successful exhibition of 25 of her works in 2017 – in Manora gallery in Bangalore, India as homage to the Ajanta cave drawings and sculptures of the Buddhas entourage, made 2 to 4,000 years ago. 

Also has exhibited with several galleries in Sydney, and in NSW, in group and solo shows including the beautiful Cudgegong gallery in Gulgong.

In Sydney, Feyona owned The Art Gallery at Whale beach for 3 years, and gallery41 in Woolloomooloo for 7 years. 
 
Feyona exhibited in solo shows with MU gallery in Mosman and also exhibits with Manyung gallery in Mt Eliza, Victoria.

 
Feyona loves to draw, paint and sculpt the human body, and is also interested in colours and abstract painting – and the way colours make us feel. Her clay and bronze bodies are always a celebration of the human form and the body’s movement. Feyona loves primitive wood firings – wood, pit, raku, black and dustbin – and the results she achieves with them. The experiment is continual, and the ideas are always changing, emerging.

Feyona has opened exhibitions as well as participating. She has been on Harboursculpture committee, and judged exhibitions including at Tom Bass Sculpture School, at 504, Northbridge art prize, Bowral Sculpture Exhibition and at Crookwell Sculpture, Willowtree park in 2016 and 2017. And opened Sculptor Michael Vaynman’s exhibition in Gosford.  

Email: feyonavanstom@gmail.com

Phone: 0408226827

Website: www.vanstom.com