Fiona Dixon

Fiona was born at the Alice Springs Hospital. She learnt to paint by watching her family members. She grew up in Engawala Community and studied visual arts as one of her subjects when she was attending Yiarra College.

Fiona regularly paints at the new Engawala Art Centre where her work is for sale, she also sells at Northern Territory markets and exhibitions and through several local retail outlets. 

Fiona’s other family members in the community are artists as well. She mostly does dots on her paintings that represent bush medicine or bush food. She also paints on wooden artefacts, and ceramics. Fiona is one of the artists that is involved in painting the metal megafauna figures for the Megafauna Museum in Alice Springs. 

Fiona has been attending Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education in Alice Springs and completed a certificate 3 in Visual Art in 2022. She studied sewing, painting on canvas, screen painting and more.

Fiona was one of 11 Engawala Artists who wrote and illustrated a children's book titled "Tim's Journey Back In Time" written in English and Anmatjerr about the 8 million year old Mega Fauna fossils found at Alcoota near Engawala Community.