Fiona Rae was born in 1963 in Hong Kong. She graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art and soon afterwards featured in the seminal 1988 warehouse exhibition 'Freeze'. In 1991 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. She has shown widely in the UK, Europe and the USA. She was included in 'Sensation' at the Royal Academy in 1997; and in 2001 she showed in 'Hybrids'' at Tate Liverpool. She is represented in Walker Art Gallery's collection. Her paintings are characteristically colourful and visually dynamic syntheses of disparate formal elements and gestures.

'Painting does something no other art form does and has never looked so alive...

The artist's idea is always in the look of the painting'

Fiona Rae