Lynette (Lylie) Fisher is a visual artist whose creative practice began in theatre before evolving into independent film, photography, multimedia, and visual arts. Her studio practice focuses primarily on painting, working on canvas and paper with a range of paint mediums.
She studied at the Adelaide Central School of Art and has a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney College of the Arts. Alongside her studio practice, Lynette has worked extensively in arts organisations, community cultural development, education, and creativity coaching. She has led and developed a broad range of interdisciplinary arts programs including theatre and music productions, writing and publishing, arts-based conferences, online communications, and community arts events.
She was awarded a Fellowship from Creative Australia (then the Australia Council) for her work in community cultural development, which led to a three-year visiting artist appointment at San Francisco State University. Lynette later undertook artist residencies in the United States and Italy and developed a significant collaborative project with the physics laboratory at Stanford University in California USA. The resulting work, In Search of Meaning, toured internationally and generated speaking engagements, exhibitions, publications, and acquisitions into private and public collections.
Lynette lived in the United States from 1998 to 2021. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she expanded her existing media practice — which included blogging and podcasting — to create and produce Engage@Home, a free-to-air YouTube channel featuring news, entertainment, educational programming, and interviews. At a time of widespread social isolation, the channel reached more than 600,000 viewers and received multiple awards in the United States.
After returning to Australia in 2021, Lynette became involved with The Mill through the City Mobilities project, securing a studio in 2023. Her studio work remains a vital space for creative exploration, reflection, and the development of new bodies of work.
Lynette’s work explores memory, shared experience, imagination, and storytelling. Each piece draws from personal histories, family narratives, lived experience, and reflections on the world around her.
Lynette is currently developing two interconnected series, Journey and From the Shore, informed by her Tasmanian Palawa Indigenous ancestry and pre-colonial South Australian heritage. These works bring together memory, inherited storytelling, evocative reflections of place, and imagined emotional landscapes.
