Lynette Fisher
Lynette Fisher’s art practice encompasses painting, printmaking, drawing and assemblage, which she regularly exhibits in solo and group shows throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Lynette’s work investigates themes of adoption, guardianship and ownership - appropriating existing imagery and re-placing it in awkward and re-imagined worlds. While an underlying sense of nostalgia usually permeates her work, it is disrupted by tensions around how the past and the present traverse space, time and identity.
Bláthfhleasc (Wreath of Remembrance in Welsh, pronounced blah-laask) is a wreath-shaped fabric and multimedia installation that explores memory, commemoration and the threads that link us to the past. At the heart of the work is the daisy chain - a simple, familiar motif that in Lynette Fisher’s work becomes a powerful metaphor for connection, fragility and the cycles of life and loss. The installation reflects the fragile, shifting nature of memory. Just as daisies are threaded together, ‘Bláthfhleasc’ gathers personal and collective histories into a continuous form that invites viewers to move through slowly, to notice detail and to consider the emotional weight of what we hold on to. Rooted in nature and shaped by experimentation, ‘Bláthfhleasc’ honours the resilience of memory and the playful, tender ways we make sense of absence, connection, and remembrance.
Play and experimentation are central to Lynette’s process. With ‘Bláthfhleasc’, she has worked intuitively with a mix of materials - textiles, found objects and paint - testing combinations, textures, and forms which are reinvented every time it is installed. This hands-on, exploratory approach allows meaning to emerge gradually, through making and remaking, layering and reworking.
