Catherine B Fisher

Currently based
Sydney
Affiliated institution
University of Sydney; NSW University; University of Wollongong; University of Southern Queensland
Website
cbfisher.weebly.com
About

Dr. Catherine B. Fisher has been an exhibited and published artist for over forty years. She lives in the Sutherland Shire of New South Wales, Australia.
Her artworks are nationally award-winning & multi-disciplinary - printmaking, digital art, fine jewellery, silversmithing, photography, videography, fibre art, painting and drawing.

Her arts training includes graphic design, photography and jewellery at Sydney University (B.A. Vis. Arts). Apart from being involved in Arts law as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW she is a visual arts educator, (Grad. Dip. Ed. & M. Ed. Creative Arts NSW), researcher, curator, lapidary, enameller, gem facetor and woodturner. She is an AFLACA jewellery & lapidary judge.

Catherine gains inspiration from natural and urban landscapes, ancient art aesthetics, art history, and archaeology. She combines digital and ancient processes and materials with contemporary Postdigital themes. Her doctoral research (DCA USQ) involved the divergence of Postdigital art and humanness in digital & analogue spaces.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS - artworks have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (in print);
State Library of NSW, Sydney;
The Australian Museum, Sydney;
Westpac Banking Corporation Museum, Sydney;
Museu de Arte Contemporânea Nadir Afonso, Chaves, Portugal;
Adriano Moreira Cultural Center - Bragança, Portugal, and
Côa Museum, Foz Côa, Portugal.
Artworks are also held in private collections in Australia; United Kingdom; USA; Japan, Switzerland, Mexico and Canada

CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
CATHERINE FISHER B.A. (VIS. ARTS); GRAD. DIP. ED.;
M.ED.(C.A.); LLB.; GRAD. DIP. (LEG PRAC.)
DCA

SELECT RESEARCH HISTORY
2016 to PRESENT
USQ Creative Arts/Practice-led researcher in Postdigital art and humanness.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2021 'Secret Life of Plants' Southern Printmakers
2020 'Life in Lockdown' Southern Printmakers
2019 ‘Graduart’ Artsworx Gallery, Toowoomba QLD & Toowoomba Regional Gallery, QLD.
2019 ‘Traversing Postdigital: Reimagining humanness between the spaces of paint and pixels’ - Solo exhibition.
2019 ‘Light and Shade’ Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea,
NSW.
2018 - Cover Art - Art Education Australia vol. 39, no. 3, 2018.
2018 ‘Bridges’ Ewart Gallery, Willoughby, Sydney
2017 3rd Global Douro Printmaking Biennial exhibition - Portugal
2016 'Roots' Printmaking exhibition - Depot Gallery, Sydney.
2016 'Perspectives' Printmaking exhibition - Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2016 - Printmaking - Joint exhibitor - Moran Gallery Sylvania.
2015 – ‘Lyrical’ (Works exchange) Southern Printmakers Association, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Gymea NSW

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
VISUAL ARTWORKS x 4 ACQUIRED BY PURCHASE - Australian Museum, Sydney.
VISUAL ARTWORKS ACQUIRED BY SELECTION – Four (4) Fine Art Photographic Works - State Library / Mitchell Library of NSW.
Westpac Museum The Rocks, Sydney.
The Australian Museum, Sydney.
Marratta College Collection, Sydney.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Britain - fine art photography, paintings, etchings, wearable and fibre arts;
Dubai (commissioned drawings; fine art photography and fibre arts);
Mexico – fibre arts and jewellery;
USA - fine art;
Switzerland – fine art wearable and fibre arts;
Canada - fine art photography and fibre arts, and
Australia (multiple private works).

Catherine has represented NSW in Gymnastics and represented Australia in Olympic Volleyball.
March 2024
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