ANDREA FISHER
BIOGRAPHY & CV
Andrea Fisher’s artwork crosses boundaries, collapsing the categories which once confined art’s interpretation. In ways that challenge our preconceptions, Fisher moves between cultural and artistic modes. Jewellery and photography work together in series where their interrelation creates a conversation about the changing mores of contemporary culture.
Fisher’s foremost desire is to use her artwork to reclaim agency of her heritage through the recontextualisation of her ancestral history. History changes with its retelling, and like the other members of the proppaNOW artists collective to which she belongs, Fisher ‘demonstrates a defiance to remember’. The sombre reminder contained in her work is relieved by the artist’s ironic humour, however, which invites us to participate in an on-going and edgy dialogue about the Australian society.
Meaning and form coalesce satisfyingly in Fisher’s practice to produce aesthetically pleasing objects that foster an intelligent exchange between history and the contemporary world. Like an archive from our own era, Fisher’s work reflects the evolution of Australian culture today, and gestures hopefully towards the future.
Education
2004
Certificate III, Business Arts Administration
2001
Bachelor of Visual Arts in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Queensland College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane (forthcoming)
Armed, Helen Gory Galerie (Gallery 2), Melbourne (forthcoming)
2009
Everyday, Museum of Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
Putsch, proppaNOW group exhibition, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
I Forgot to Forget, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
The Museum Effect, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
proppaNOW girls, George Petelin Gallery, Brisbane
2008
Ooga Booga, George Petelin Gallery, Southport proppaNOW Collective Show, Brisbane
Mizfits, BoVACAIA past Graduate Show, Queensland College of Art
LAUNCH, Clayton Utz Travelling Exhibition
The Haunted and the Bad, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Craft Revolution, QUT Art Museum
Blurred Boundaries: Intersecting territories in art, craft and design, Artisan, Brisbane
2007
Blurred Boundaries: Intersecting territories in art, craft and design, kickARTS, Cairns
Explorations, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
The Amersham Trophy, proppaNOW collective, Brisbane
Friendly Fire, proppaNOW collective, George Petelin Gallery, Gold Coast
50 Brooches' Exhibition, Craft Queensland
reSkin, Wearable Technology Exhibition, Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra
2006
Tell em ya Dreaming, Woodford Folk Festival, curated by Bianca Beetson
Christmas Show, proppaNOW collective , George Petelin Gallery, Gold Coast
There Goes the Neighborhood, proppaNOW collective, Brisbane
Cherish, Christmas Show, Craft Queensland
Thanakupi's A Gatherer's View, Craft Queensland, Brisbane
2005
Dumb Luck, proppaNOW collective, around the issue of Deaths in Custody, The Dreaming, Australia's International Indigenous Festival, Woodford, curated by Djon Mundine
Welcoming Show, proppaNOW collective, Brisbane
Bring It, BlackARTS Indigenous Festival in association with Kooemba Jdarra, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
proppaNOW collective, Lane Gallery, Auckland
2004
proppaNOW Introduction Show, City Hall, Brisbane
Straight Out of Brisbane, proppaNOW collective, Brisbane
2003
Songlines, Fox Galleries, Brisbane
New Flames, Fireworks Gallery, Newstead, Brisbane
2002
Gatherings, Brisbane Convention Centre
2001
Graduate Show, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
Robin O'Chin Art Award', Murri Mura Centre, Brisbane
Awards
2007
Finalist Telstra NATSI Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin
Commissions
2005 '
Meeting Places, Hoardings Project, Brisbane City Square
Hoardings Project, Brisbane City Square
2004 '
Mural Project, Rochedale State High School
2002 '
Brisbane River Festival, Good Will Bridge, Hands on Art, South Bank, Brisbane
Artist-in-Residencies
2006-2007
Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra, ANAT 'reSkin' Artist in Residence
Matt Dwyer's 'Jewellery and small object workshop classes (intermediate-advanced skills, Studio Sixteen, Brisbane
2003
New Flames, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Publications
2008
Art Monthly Australia, Issue July 2008 No. 211
Australian Art Collector, Issue 44, Apr/Jun ‘Undiscovered’ Pg 156-157
Asian Art News, Vol 18 # 2 Mar/Apr 2008, ‘Artist in the contact zone’ Pg 86-89
2005
Queensland based artist calendar, Queensland Indigenous Art Marketing and Export Agency (QIAMEA), Department of Premier and Cabinet
Catalogues
2008
The Haunted and the Bad, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2007
Blurred Boundaries: Intersecting territories in art, craft and design', kickARTS and Artisan
2006
There Goes the Neighborhood, proppaNOW show catalogue
2005
Thick and Fast, proppaNOW show catalogue
2003
Songlines, Emerging Queensland Indigenous Artists
2001
Gatherings I, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland