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