Robyn Fisher is a visual artist living and working in Victoria on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung people.

Having spent her formative years in inner city Melbourne before moving to the 1800s goldfield boomtown of Ballarat, Robyn’s practice is influenced by the dominance of Victorian era red brick building and bluestone alleyways of these urban landscapes.

Through painting and drawing Robyn creates emotive and often melancholic scenarios, that connect and interweave with narratives and objects from the past. Portraits are created via informal interviews with the sitter, which provide the opportunity for personal histories to be part of storytelling motifs within the artwork.

Robyn studied Art and Design at Prahran College in the 1990s before travelling to Europe and Japan. In Tokyo, Robyn was under the tutorage of Sumi-e (Japanese Ink Painting) artist Tosoui Tanaka, whose teachings have strongly influenced the composition and brushstrokes of Robyn’s paintings. Robyn has also completed a Bachelor of Applied Science at Federation University in Ballarat, pursuing an interest in the natural environment that compliments the influence of the built environment that has shaped much of her work. The creative fusion of these two seemingly contradictory inspirations is highlighted in Robyn’s ongoing series of paintings reflecting the impact of European settlement on the habitat of native Wood Ducks now commonly found living on chimneys around Ballarat.

Robyn acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which she lives and works and recognises the continuing connection to the land and waterways.