Fiona Stewart
Fiona Stewart has been surrounded by nature and wildlife all her life, having grown up in the middle of Bass Strait, on Flinders Island, Tasmania. Her passions - nature and art - have allowed her to create a professional life based on the things she loves. At home on Flinders she looks after orphaned marsupials and injured birds.
Heralding from a family of artists, she was taught watercolor and drawing by her grandmother and mother. She studied art and design at the University of Tasmania and continued on scholarship at the Billy Blue School of Graphic Design and Advertising in Sydney. Her artwork and advertising design have won numerous prizes, including the International Womens Day Art Prize in 2002.
As designer her books include Albatross, Elusive Mariners of the Southern Ocean, published by Reed-New Holland (2005), which won the 2006 Whitley Award for Natural History in Australia.
In the past two years Fionas photographs from her worldwide travels from India to French Polynesia, Alaska to Antarctica, have been published in National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times, Best Life and other international magazines.
From November 2007 to February 2008, Fiona was part of a National Geographic-funded expedition along the Antarctic Peninsula, as photographer and web communications manager, making three trips across the Drake Passage to Antarctica in as many months.
Fiona lives in New York.
