Ginny Fisher
Ginny’s passion for photography was spawned early in her journalism career while shooting her own travel stories and styling still life photo shoots for magazine spreads. After a ten year stint in the United States she made the career pivot to fine art and completed a Fine Arts Certificate at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Ginny’s creative practice spans painting, photography, printmaking and writing. Her photography practice includes landscape, still life and animal portraiture. Her country studio is where she photographs, prints and paints, exploring naturalist themes with a modernist twist. Her garden, small farm and coastal environment are rich sources of inspiration. Alongside her fine art practice, Ginny provides photographic services to local businesses and sells photographic prints online. Her most recent exhibition was at Maman in Remuera this September and the year before with Arthaus Contemporary in Orakei.
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Artworks by Ginny Fisher
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Razor Bill, (Alca torda), circa 1899
See Artwork »Photographic digital print on cotton rag (edition of 5) of a Razor Bill egg, a North Atlantic seabird egg dating back to the late 1800s in England. The eggs form part of the artist’s egg collection that was created by her great great grandfather 120 years ago. This family heirloom has been the source of artistic inspiration for both Ginny and her mother, who painted them over her lifetime. The artist sees the eggs as metaphors for fragility, strength and individuality. The Razorbill nests in cliffside colonies overlooking the ocean and uses its sharp, hatchet-shaped bill to catch fish underwater, sometimes diving to 330 feet below the ocean. Chicks leave the nest before they even have flight feathers, jumping from their cliff ledges into the water far below.
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The Rowdy Line Up
See Artwork »Photographic digital print on cotton rag (edition of 5) of Lapwing, Artic Tern, Sparrow Hawk, Crow and Peregrine Falcon eggs dating back to the late 1800s in England. The eggs form part of the artist’s egg collection that was created by her great great grandfather 120 years ago. This family heirloom has been the source of artistic inspiration for both Ginny and her mother, who painted them over her lifetime. The artist sees the eggs as metaphors for fragility, strength and individuality. Shot on a backdrop of sage green in natural light, the artist references the colours of the English landscapes they were collected from.
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Guillemot Egg, (Uria Aalge), circa 1900
See Artwork »Photographic digital print (edition of 5) of a Guillemot egg that dates back to the late 1800s and was sourced from the artist’s egg collection, created by her great great grandfather in England 120 years ago. This family heirloom has been the source of artistic inspiration for both Ginny and her mother, who painted them over her lifetime. The artist sees the eggs as metaphors for fragility, strength and individuality. Shot on a backdrop of cornflower blue linen in natural light, the artist references the oceans the egg crossed to arrive in New Zealand in the early 1900s.