Geoffrey Fisher is an artist, designer and maker who was born in South London and studied Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic. It was during this time he first began working in wood by constructing small scale wall pieces contained within glass fronted cabinets. After graduating he established a studio in the emerging community of artists living and working in the former warehouses of the East London and became the assistant to Ivor Abrahams RA.
In the early eighties he relocated to Athens for an extended period where he established himself as designer and maker of furniture and lighting but then returned to London to work in the film industry as a model maker and scenic artist while continuing to make his minimalist wooden constructions in his spare time.
In 1995 he began exhibiting these with Jane England at England and Co and at the annual London Contemporary Art Fair taking part in “The Map Is Not The Territory” the first of three exhibitions curated by England and Co. This concept of “The Map Is Not The Territory” describes the relationship between an object and a representation of that object, as in the relation between a geographical territory and a map of it.
His work from this period followed a similar theme which culminated in an exhibition at Norden Farm in Maidenhead and is now in the collection of the BBC World Service.