The Famous Australian artist Fiona Margaret Hall was born on 16 November 1952. Fiona Hall is an Australian artistic photographer and sculptor.
Fiona Hall was born to Ruby Payne-Scott (a pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy) and telephone technician William Holman Hall in 1953 and grew up in Oatley, Sydney. She is the younger sister of the internationally renowned mathematical statistician and probabilist Peter Gavin Hall. Fiona Hall was taken to see the landmark exhibition Two Decades of American Painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales at age 14 which developed her interest in the artistic world.
Fiona Hall won the prestigious Contempora 5 Art Award at the National Gallery of Australia in 1997. She was appointed to the Advisory Council of the Australian National University's Centre for the Mind in 1998.