Dianne Fogwell’s practice is centred on printmaking, painting and artists books.  Using a repertoire of images including leaves, birds, fish, shells, flowers and moths, Dianne uses pared back tones from the natural world to illuminate everyday objects that usually go unnoticed in our daily lives.  Her works, often appearing as imaginary, almost hallucinatory, dreamscapes, create a story that flows from work to work like a page of text or music.  Dianne’s daily observations of the natural world as she reflects on her studio space and its surrounds in North Canberra show how important the natural and urban environment of the ACT has been to her artistic practice. 

As well as being a respected artist, Dianne has also made a major contribution to the Canberra art community through teaching, curating and establishing press and print studios.  In a career spanning thirty years, she has had many solo exhibitions locally and interstate, and has participated in many group exhibitions both in Australia and internationally, including the 1st International Book Arts Fair in Seoul, Korea.  Her work is represented in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia; Artbank; Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Greece; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, USA; National Library of Australia and the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, USA.