Profile
Ilya Fisher
2024
My work explores issues around the climate and nature crisis and justice, attempting to understand the world, what we are doing to it, and how to navigate to a better place. I am interested in the psychology, why is it we know about the multiple crises yet do so little about it, how can we face the future and find our way to a safer, kinder world? My work uses oil painting, photography and stitch but it is the words layered into each piece that invite us to pause, reflect and imagine.
2018-2020 Falmouth University, MA Photography
Solo Exhibitions
2025/26 Trying To Understand Things, Cornwall Museum & Art Gallery
2022 Unravelling, Exeter Cathedral, Devon
2022 Unravelling ,Truro Cathedral, Cornwall
Group exhibitions
2024 Aspiration and Immersion, Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall.
2024 Solastalgia, Truro Cathedral, Cornwall
2024 In This Together, Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2023 In This Together, Truro Cathedral, Cornwall
2023 In This Together, Trebah Garden Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
2023 Unfamiliar Territory, Falmouth Art Gallery
2022 In This Together, The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2022 Unravelling, The Barbican Library Foyer, London
2022 Out Loud, Work Show Grow online
2022 Living Room, The Royal Cornwall Museum
2022 Dispatch, New Forest Heritage Centre, Hampshire
2021 The Silence is Deafening, The Royal Cornwall Museum
2020 The Silence is Deafening, The Newlyn Art Gallery
Other
In This Together: In 2022 I created In This Together. With artist/tutor/lecturer Camilla Dixon I co-organise and curate group exhibitions opening conversations around the climate and nature crisis. Instagram @inthistogether_art
2023 Issue 2 Solastalgia Magazine ; contributing artist with 6 pages
2022 Short film about my series ‘Unravelling’ made by Senara Wilson Hodges (On The Beach Productions) https://youtu.be/Z4YfFRWK8h0
08.08.21 Photopocene Episode 14 of eco-conscious photography podcast by Josie Purcell https://www.josiepurcellphotography.com/photopocene/2021/8/8/photopocene-with-ilya-fisher-episode-14
2021 The British Library acquired the artist book ’Excuses’ and zine ‘Why Would We Want to Face This?’ for their contemporary artist book collection
Excuses walkthrough: https://youtu.be/bB6SR6cFQtA
Why? walkthrough: https://youtu.be/Bhr68Ii8m5A
