Fisher was born in 1973 and brought up in Norfolk. He took the Foundation at Norwich School of Art and after a false start studying ceramics at Bath Academy of Art he moved to London and graduated in Ceramics at Camberwell College of Art and Design in 1997. He went on to study Ceramics at the Royal College of Art from 1997-1999. During his MA course he also worked as an architectural technician.

Fisher creates large pots – some so big that they can be described as monumental - on a wheel but he then manipulates the porcelain (hung upside down) to paper-like folded fragile thinness. The finished work looks spontaneous but is the product of long and careful working. The porcelain pieces are unglazed but sometimes he uses slips to lubricate his work as gravity makes it thinner and more transparent. He also uses a similar technique using raw glazed stoneware to produce opaque and heavier rippling pieces.

Fisher has work is in many public collections notably The Henry Moore Foundation, Musée National de Ceramique, Sevres, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

 

Glossary

  • Ceramics

    Clay based products produced from non-metallic material and fired at high temperature. The term covers all objects made of fired clay, including earthenware, porcelain, stoneware and terra cotta.

  • Design

    The arrangement of elements or details in an artefact or a work of art.

  • Porcelain

    One of the three major types of pottery, the others being stoneware and earthenware. Porcelain is fired in the region of 1300ºC to produce a white vitrified and translucent body.

  • Stoneware

    One of the three major types of pottery, the others being earthenware and porcelain. A buff, gray or brown clay is mixed with other clays and ceramic materials to make a heavy, opaque, highly plastic clay body that is fired at a high temperature - above 1200ºC. It is in between earthenware and porcelain in its character. The term stoneware also refers to the clay body and objects made from it.