BRITISH SCULPTORS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
EDITED BY ALAN WINDSOR

Published by
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Gower House
Croft Road
Aldershot
Hants
GU113HR
England
2003
ISBN 1-85928-456-6

Gareth Fisher b.1951

Artist working in a variety of styles and media, from painted structures to bronze and plaster sculptures. Born in Keswick, Cumbria, he attended Edinburgh College of Art (1969-76). In 1979-80 he was Chairman of New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh. He has been exhibiting in solo and group shows since 1977. In 1986 the Scottish Arts Council sponsored a touring exhibition of his sculpture. His early sculptures, large white painted structures, were inspired by the Minimalist Donald Judd. In the early 1980s, maintaining his links with Modernity, he found fascination in the formal beuty of single objects. These bronze pieces were elegant despite an inherent trauma (for example, Crashed Car, 1982). He turned in the mid-1980s to plaster, built up on a metal skeleton, incorporating found objects and coloured fragments.Human in scale, these pieces address disaffection with contemporary culture through a re-examination of post-war nostalgia (Regeneration, 1986).

THE DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH ART AND ARCHITECTURE
PETER J M McEWAN

Published by Rhod McEwan at Glengarden Press
Ballater
Aberdeenshire
AB35 5UB
Scotland
2004
ISBN 0-9547552-1-9

FISHER, Gareth ARSA

Born Keswick, Cumbria. Sculptor. Initially trained at the Carlisle College of Art 1968-69, travelled to Scotland 1969 enrolling as a student at Edinburgh College of Art 1969-76. Prize-winner 1972. Subsequent travelling scholarships enabled him to travel overseas and 1979-1981 chairman of the 'New Fifty-Seven' gallery. His work is a young sculptor's perception of the changing physical world around him, 'he brings together disparate objects which communicate the coming together of different cultures and visual stimuli in our modern urban world'. A strong decorative feel to his work 'with particular overtones of a certain decadent gratuitous enjoyment of colour and shape in their own right'. Incorporates his constructional past in the assemblages as literally and metaphorically a base for the final image. Has taught at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art since 1982. First solo exhibition in Edinburgh 1977, subsequently in Toronto 1984and at the Abbot Hall AG (Kendal) 1986. Elected ARSA 2003.