Carly Fischer
Mother 2025
concrete, steel, foam, paint
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Carly Fischer is a sculptural artist from Narrm/Melbourne, Australia who often works collaboratively across sculpture, sound and video to create expansive installations. Her place-responsive practice engages with the smaller details, hidden histories and peripheral dialogues of places through improvisational and accumulative processes of wandering, field recording, archival research and collaborative experimentation. Through carefully constructed assemblages and reconstructions of found and fabricated fragments, her sculptures and installations encourage a more intimate and durational engagement with the details and dialogues of our local environments. Since 2018, Carly has been collaborating with audiovisual artist Edwina Stevens to develop sculptural and audiovisual projects that are more generative, collaborative, improvisational and reflexive responses to local places.
Mother 2023 comprises three distinct sculptural arrangements based on the simple forms of sphere and cylinder. These reference histories of Minimalist sculpture, which initiated a major shift in the significance of the sculptural object from the artwork itself to its environmental and experiential context, here realised in the context of Lorne's southern shoreline. The positive and negative spherical elements derive from the nearby geological formation known as Artillery Rocks, and the ball structures which form around organic nuclei over millenia. Cast impressions of the rocks texture are embedded in Fischer's cast forms alongside similar textures drawn from degraded styrofoam–drawing attention to the material constitution and dissolution of rock, concrete and foam. A hand-painted replica of an empty discarded Mother energy drink can sits atop one work, compressing multiple themes including maternity, capitalist excess and consumption, and environmental disrepair.
Fischer completed a Master of Fine Art at Monash University in 2015. Solo exhibitions include Velodrome, Stockroom Kyneton, Australia, with Edwina Stevens (2023); Conversation Piece, BUS Projects, Melbourne, with Edwina Stevens (2021); I feel the earth move under my feet, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, with Edwina Stevens (2019); From Little Things, Big Things Grow, Warrnambool Art Gallery (2018); Magic Dirt, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, Australia, with Mieko Suzuki (2015); and Time stands still when I think of you, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia (2010). Group exhibitions include Beechworth Biennale, Beechworth (2024); Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, with Edwina Stevens (2023); Assemblage, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne; and Falling, falling, falling now, OHM Berlin, Germany (2020); and Groundwork, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Melbourne (2018).
Images: Velodrome 2023, installation view, Kyneton Stockroom. Photo Matthew Stanton (top); Carly Fischer (bottom). Courtesy the artist.
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