Carly Fischer is a sculptural artist from Narrm/Melbourne, Australia who often works collaboratively across sculpture and sound to create expansive installations. Her place-responsive practice engages with the smaller details, forgotten fragments, hidden histories and peripheral dialogues of specific places and sites through accumulative processes of wandering, field recording, archival research and collaborative experimentation. Weaving alternate narratives through incidental intersections and tangents, these processes generate sculptural responses that slip between form, materiality and context, reflecting on places as complex and shifting sites of interaction and negotiation. Through assemblages that ambiguously merge found fragments with subtle reconstructions in wood, ceramic, concrete and paint, her sculptures and installations encourage a more intimate and durational engagement with the overlapping details and dialogues of our local environments. Since 2012, her sculptures and installations have often incorporated sonic components in collaboration with sound artists, through a similar process of field recording and reconstructed assemblages, experimenting with conversations between sonic and sculptural forms and materialities.

Carly completed an MFA in 2015 at Monash University, focusing on some of the problems with site- specific practice in a contemporary context. She has exhibited in Australia, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Scotland, England, Japan and the US through solo, group and collaborative projects and residencies. Recent projects include 'When you strip everything away, it's just you looking out' in The Lorne Sculpture Biennale 'Strata', 'Ruins in Reverse' in The Beechworth Biennale, 'Velodrome' in collaboration with Edwina Stevens at Schoolhouse Gallery, Melbourne, Stockroom Kyneton and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 'Conversation Piece' in collaboration with Edwina Stevens at Bus Projects, Melbourne and The Incinerator Art Award and 'I feel the earth move under my feet', in collaboration with Edwina Stevens, created in response to a residency at Melbourne's Living Museum of the West and exhibited at Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow. Carly has been the recipient of Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne and Australia Council Art Grants as well as an Australian Postgraduate Award for her MFA research at Monash University. She has previously lived and worked in Berlin and Tokyo and currently resides in Narrm/Melbourne.


carly_fischer@yahoo.com.au

Carly acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which she lives and works, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation and pays respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.