“Shirley Fisher’s landscapes are well known to collectors in Australia and overseas. Her mastery of the pastel medium is exemplified in her exquisite renderings of the Western Australian littoral. The works are highly figurative whilst retaining strong expressive elements and a very evident sense of place.

Shirley has been a professional artist for the past fifteen years. She has exhibited widely and has won a number of awards. The artist’s imagery and technical repertoire has been developed by intensive personal study and has been further enhanced by art visits to the Indian sub-continent and Southern Europe. It is however, by her expressive and sensitive studies of our coastline that she is best known.”
Michael Taylor (Formerly of Griffith University)
Born England 1955
Arrived Australia 1965
Qualified draftswoman,
Diploma of Art and Design.

Exhibitions and Awards

2008

Peoples choice award – Newdegate Field Day Art exhibition
Solo Exhibition  –  Myattsfield Winery  –  Carmel
Feature artist  –  St Marks Anglican Community School
Winner  – First prize –  Byford Progress Association Art Exhibition
2007 – Winner – First Prize  ‘Water works’ exhibition, Continence Advisory Service
Winner – First Prize – Pastel – Newdegate Field Day art exhibition
Solo Exhibition Rainier Gallery Armadale – Sand and Surf
Winner  –  Beverley Art Award  –  Dry Media – First Prize
Winner  –  Wagin Woolerama Art Award – Most outstanding Exhibit

2006

Solo exhibition Tresillian Art Centre Nedlands
Winner  –  Wagin Woolerama Art Award – Most outstanding Exhibit
Duo Exhibition  –  Rottnest Salt Store, Rottnest
2005 – Winner –  Wagin Art Award – Pastel Prize
Winner – Pinjarra Art Award
Winner – Harvey Art Award – Still Life
Group Exhibition –  Rottnest Salt Store, Rottnest
Solo Exhibition – The Blue Duck, Cottesloe

2004

Guest artist – St Marks Anglican Community School
Winner – W A Pastel Society First Prize
Winner – Beverley art award, dry media
Winner – Miniature painting – Pinjarra Art Award

2003

Solo exhibition – Kings Hotel Arts cafe – People and Places
Solo exhibition Albany – Gorepani – “Ebb and Flow”
Group exhibition – Margaret River Galleries – “Four scene”

2002

Wagin Woolerama – Winner – most outstanding exhibit
Winner – miniature prize
Winner – Miniature painting – Pinjarra Art Award
Duo Maxwell’s Gallery – “A Room with a View”

2001

Solo Kings Hotel Arts Cafe “Mainly Blue”
Duo Houghton’s Winery “Lasting Impressions”
Solo Inside Out Design “Waters’ Edge”
Pastel Society Art Award – First Prize Winner

2000

Group Swan Cottage Homes “Favourite Images”
Pastel Society Art Award – First Prize Winner
City of Kalgoorlie/Boulder – Winner (Landscape/Seascape) 

1999

Duo Houghton’s Winery “Timeless Passage”
Solo Falduzzi’s Restaurant, Fremantle

1998

Duo Tresillian Community Centre “In View of Rottnest”
William’s Art Award – Winner Pastel prize
Pastel Society Art Award- Runner up

1997

Canning Art Awards – Winner Pastel prize

1996

Original Artwork – ‘Seaflight Adventure’ cassette cover 

1993

City of Melville Art Awards – Winner Excellence in Pencil
V.A.F. / Multiplex Acquisitive Drawing Prize C.S.A. 

1992

C.M.C. Fine Art Graduation – His Majesty’s Theatre

1991

Artrage – C.M.C. Perth Campus – “Is Anyone There’” 

1990

P.I.C.A. “Regional Identity”

Workshops

2008   Yallingup (Pastel)
2006   Byford  (Pastel)
2005   Beverley ( Mixed media)
2004  Melville Community art centre (Pastel), Dunsborough (Acrylic)
2003 Maxwells Gallery, Roleystone (Pastel) and Dunsborough (Pastel)

Representation

Gallery 360, , Subiaco
Gorepani Art, Albany
Finishing Touch Gallery, Fremantle
Linton and Kay Fine Art Gallery
JahRoc Gallery Margaret River
C.M.C. Perth Campus
A.W.T.A. – commission
Chubb Security
Alan Bond
Private commissions and collections in Australia, USA, China, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain