Centre for Australian Art

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Catherine B. Fisher

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Name

Catherine B. Fisher

Other names

Dr. Catherine B. Fisher

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

24 October 1955

Birth place

Engadine, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

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Movements

United Kingdom, Europe and Egypt, Africa 1979-1980; United Kingdom, Europe 1985-1987; Oceania 1990-91; United Kingdom and Switzerland, Europe 2001- 2009

Occupations

Artist | Artist (digital) | Jeweller | Photographer | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia, Europe.

Context

Australia

Web

cbfisher.weebly.com | www.daao.org.au/bio/catherine-b-fisher/personal_d…

Website

Biography

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

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; Japan, Switzerland, Mexico and Canada

Last Updated

19 Jun 2021