Visual Artist, Writer and Independent Researcher

current/upcoming:

Falling faintly faintly falling, Finch Gallery, 12 Sidworth Street, London (opens 17 January 2026)

Artists books from the Athenaeum’s Erika & Fred Torri Artists’ Books Collection, Max & Melissa Elliott North Reading Room , Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, San Diego, California, October 25 2025 – January 17 2026

Animals SITE:Brooklyn, October 29, 2025 – November 29, 2025

Solo Exhibitions:

Spectacle Exhibitions 57W57 Arts (4-7 September 2024)

‘Repartea’ Project 1628 Baltimore MD (16 Jan – 19 Feb 2022)

‘re:paired with the colors all around’  The Shed Space Baltimore, MD (10 June – 3 July 2021)

‘the baby and the bath water’  Shelter in Place Gallery Boston, MASS (30 March – 2 April 2021)

Press & Print

W’R01, Journal of the Writers Room, issue 1, July 2025

Elaine Fisher: Repartea at Project 1628 Bmore Art

Picks of the Week (June 8-14 2021) Bmore Art

Sluice:Exchange Berlin 2018  review by Sandra Ratcovic, Chased Magazine, Berlin, Germany

Weather Station (Part 2) B-side Festival 2016 review by Trevor H Smith, thisistomorrow.com

Awards, Commissions, Residencies:

WRITERS’ ROOM Residency, Wild Pansy Press at The Florence Trust, London (May/June, October/November 2024)

Castlefield Gallery Artist Development Award Nominee Manchester Open Exhibition( 2024)

Did you meet her? (D’m’t-er?) ‘best in show’ award Specto Art Space (Sept 2019)

Para(meter): Commissioned by B-side Festival/OSR Projects (May 2016)

PREFAB-Lab: Commissioned by Fringe Arts Bath Festival(May/June 2016)

Research Travel Grant: Awarded by Visual Arts South West to interview Tessa Lynch at Glasgow International (March 2016)

Lower High Street Archive: Resident Artist MEANTIMEproject space (July-December 2014)

Past Exhibitions:

A Rose is a rose is a rose Rose Projects at 57W57 Arts 501 5th Avenue (Suite 701) New York NY10017 (6-7 September 2025)

Harvest and Gather Missed Connections, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (26 April -19 July 2025)

A rose is a rose is a rose, Finch Gallery, 12 Sidworth Street, London (7 June 2025)

CANAL BOAT CONTEMPORARY MINIATURES SHOP (Nov/Dec 2024 and 2025)

Manchester Open Exhibition 2024 (3 Feb – 28 April 2024)

Shape / Form / Structure SITE: Brooklyn (16 Aug – 19 Sept 2023)

Fibre Air Gallery, Manchester (17 March – 22 April 2023)

‘compositions’ The Holy Art (5-11 September 2022)

‘growing together’ The Tŷ Pawb Open 2022 (15 October 2022 – 7 January 2023)

Flat Files 2021 ICA Baltimore, MD (27 Nov 2020 – 31 Dec 2021)

Returning Voices (say something back) exhibition and postcard launch  www.artwrite.net @_artwrite.net_ (27 July 2021)

Out of Order Maryland Art Place (May 15 – 22 2021)

Latela Curatorial’s Garden Party Online Exhibition Thursday, April 22 (Earth Day) – Monday, May 31, 2021 

Nefarious Contemporary Memory Zine/Exhibition

Moment ArtWrite http://www.artwrite.net (Winter 2020/1)

Something Orange Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol UK (7-11May 2020)

Flat Files 2020 ICA Baltimore, MD (1-23 February 2020) and ONLINE at Baltimore Museum of Art Salon 

Superfine Art Fair (with Specto Art Space) Union Market, DC (30 Oct – 3 Nov 2019)

Studies and Source: inspiration Specto Art Space (8 Aug – 3 Sept 2019)

Artscape 2019 Gallery Network Exhibition at Aside Gallery and Studios (19-21 July 2019)

Beyond Beautiful: one thousand love letters (art/poetry collaboration) Bruun Studios at Maryland Art Place and Area 405 (17 Jan – 10 March 2019).

Weather Station (Berlin) OSR Projects at Sluice 2018 Exchange Berlin (16-18 Nov 2018)

One Gun Gone Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (18 Oct – 9 Nov 2018)

Holding NAU Arts Cheltenham (May 2018)

I think this world is magical The Artists Workhouse Studley (March 2018)

Say Ahhhhhh…. Nau Arts Open, Cheltenham (2017)

Weather Station (Part 2) OSR Projects at b-side festival Drill Hall Gallery, Portland (2016)

Divided by the Meltwater UWTSD Swansea College of Art, Swansea, Wales (2016)

PREFAB-LAB Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath (2016)

We are Moving Exhibition and Symposium The Wilson, Cheltenham (2016)

Thinking / Making Curious Projects, Eastbourne (2015)

ON PHOTOcopy Art Weekender  Fringe Arts Bath / 44AD, Bath (2015)

MA Grad Show Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham (2015)

Perfect Day Gallery 4a, Malvern (2015)

New Numbers : New ApproachesUniversity of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (2015)

Interval Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham (2015)

MA Open Studio The Chapel, Francis Close Hall, Cheltenham (2014)

…..on land Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham (2014)

MA Open Studio The Wilson , Cheltenham (2014)

Being Meantime MEANTIME , Cheltenham (2014)

Cotswold Artists Paragon Gallery,Cheltenham (2013)

End of Year Show Stroud School of Art, Stroud (2013)

Art in Boxes Museum in the Park (2012)

Book Art University of the West of England, Bristol (2012)

Divided: negotiating form in ceramicsGlass Box Gallery, Stroud School of Art, Stroud (2012)

Education

Art and Archaeology (MLitt Module) University of the Highlands and Islands (2017)

MA Fine Art University of Gloucestershire (2013-2015)

Creative Arts Diploma Stroud School of Art (2011-2013)

MA Museum Studies University College London (1997-1998)

BA (hons) Ancient History and Archaeology University of Liverpool (1993-1996)

Contact elaineyfish@gmail.com