Alexia Fisher is a conceptual artist who works with symbols and metaphors to engage with her lived experiences. Fisher’s work encounters themes of Censorship, whether imposed by society, her diaspora upbringing or upon the self. Through a practice of embodiment, she uses materials to fuse and process her psychology. Crafting the materials without tools, she imparts the physical and emotional tension being carried by her own body - expelling restricted topics through the language of making and creating. Text is scratched into concrete surfaces, ephemeral drawings on the wall are washed over with paint and bodily impressions are left from re-enactments in the clay. A multimodal artist, Fisher delves into subject and research before stepping into the studio, a space of performative rituals and curation. She maintains a digital register alongside each body of work, capturing the ephemeral and collating her process. Formally, the works vary, but all are connected through the communication of diametric qualities - fragility and strength, care and brutality, and the temporal and permanent. Enveloped by symbolism the material becomes both tangible and ideological, striving to communicate ruminations too complex to say out aloud, touching the precipice of being heard and being seen.

b. 1986 is a conceptual visual artist living and practising on unceded Gadigal Lands (Sydney). Before returning to the arts, Fisher worked as a registered architect in design in Sydney, London and New York.  Whilst gaining her Masters in Architecture with ‘Higher Award Distinction’ and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Western Australia, she studied a semester abroad at the prestigious Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Fisher graduated as the Valedictorian (Dux) of 2023, receiving the ‘Academic Achievement Award' for her Bachelor of Fine Art at National Art School. Alongside this, she received the ‘John Olsen Family Prize’ for Drawing and the ‘Matilda Kubany-Deane Memorial Prize’ for ceramics. Fisher has been a finalist in several awards including the 2024 Fishers Ghost Art Prize, 2023 Little Things Art Prize and 2021 Georges River Art Prize. Fisher’s works have been published in the Journal of Australian Ceramics.