Simon Fisher: From red earth and big sky

The first major solo exhibition Minyip artist Simon Fisher (born 1955) to be held in a public gallery and is the chronicling of one man’s prolific creativity, spanning the world across diverse landscapes, life experiences, travels and influences.

Profoundly fascinating and a lifetime in the making, Simon Fisher: From red earth and big sky is the artist’s life and artistic journey, inextricably enmeshed. Fisher’s practice blurs the lines between fine art, artistic exploration and a bowerbird-like drive to collect and archive.

His curiosity and technical proficiency, honed through years of professional work across the art, theatre and architecture industries has led to explorations of painting, sculpture, collage, photography and new media including virtual reality, all included in this major retrospective exhibition. “This is the central dichotomy I will deal with for decades’ the artist writes ‘formalism versus art as a diary of a life, art practice versus making to bring sense to chaos”.