My practice moves between painting, printmaking, drawing and assemblage and I regularly exhibit in solo and group shows throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
Much of my work comes back to ideas around adoption, identity, obligation and ownership. I often work with found or familiar imagery, shifting it into new settings and combinations to see what else it might say. There’s usually a sense of nostalgia in there somewhere, but I’m interested in unsettling that familiarity - allowing things to become a little more layered and less literal.
I graduated from Toi Ohomai with a Bachelor of Creative Industries in 2017 and have coordinated the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award since 2022.
Born in Auckland, I now live and work from my studio in Te Puna, Tauranga. My work is held in public and private collections.
Awards / Selections
2025 New Zealand Print & Paint Awards - Finalist
2026 Rotorua Museum Art Award - Finalist
2025 Tauranga Soc. Artists Jensen Supreme Award - Finalist
2025 Tauranga Soc. Artists Spring Competitions - Merit, Best Tauranga Scene
2025 Park2Park Sculpture trail Our Resting Place Ō Tauranga - Shortlisted
2024 Tauranga Soc. Artists Jensen Supreme Award - Runner Up
2023 Parkin Drawing Prize, NZ Academy of Fine Art, Wellington - Finalist
2020 Venetta Miles Art Award, TAG - Finalist
2019 Rotorua Museum Art Award - Merit award
2018 Venetta Miles Art Award, TAG - Ethel McMillan Award
2017 First Impressions III Print Award, Mairangi Bay Arts Centre Auckland - Finalist
2017 Parkin Drawing Prize, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington - Finalist
2017 Rotorua Museum Art Award - Finalist
2017 Toi Ohomai, Tauranga - Woman’s Graduate prize
2015 Toi Ohomai - First in Graphic Design
2013 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, Te Kõputu a te Whanga a Toi, Whakatāne - Finalist
2010 Venetta Miles Art Award, TAG - Emerging Artist Award
2002 Adam Portrait Award, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington - Finalist
Public Collections
2019 Rotorua Museum permanent collection ‘Me Too (2019)’
Selected Exhibitions
2025 SUSS 4 (Darcell Apelu, Donna Dinsdale, Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders-O'Shea, Anne Shirley) Te Awa o Mauao Gallery, Toi Ohomai, Windemere
2025 Play (Kim Fifield, Lynette Fisher, Nadia Marychurch), Matter Gallery, Mount Maunganui.
2025 SUSS 4 (Darcell Apelu, Donna Dinsdale, Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders-O'Shea, Anne Shirley) WSA Artspost, Kirikiriroa Hamilton.
2025 Connections (Invitational group show curated by Mandy Jakich), Kūmeu Arts Centre, Kūmeu.
2025 Romancing the Everyday (Invitational group show), Quirky Fox, Hāwera.
2024 SUSS 3 (Darcell Apelu, Donna Dinsdale, Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders-O'Shea, Anne Shirley) Unitec, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
2024 SUSS 2 (Darcell Apelu, Donna Dinsdale, Heidi Douglas, Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders-O'Shea, Anne Shirley) Te Awa o Mauao Gallery, Toi Ohomai, Windemere
2024 Pūmanawa | Intuitio Artistic Passport (Flowers ngā putiputi art collective) Grey Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2024 the flower gives its fragrance even to the hand which crushes it - (Alice Alva, Ekaterina Dimieva, Lynette Fisher, Wesley John Fourie, Claudia Kogachi, Tia Ranginui), NewLands Gallery, Õtepoti Dunedin.
2024 Ladies a Plate (Lynette Fisher, Justine Hawksworth), Quirky Fox, Hāwera.
2023 Parkin Drawing Prize Finalist's Exhibition, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington.
2023 Craigs Aspiring Art Prize Finalist, Wanaka
2023 Fancy - (Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders O’Shea, Anne Shirley, Tracy Stamatacos), Fos Gallery, Tauranga.
2023 Wild Creatures (Lynette Fisher, Dani Henke, Becky Popham) Squarespace Main Gallery, New Plymouth.
2023 Full Circle - 12 years of the Miles, Tauranga Art Gallery Toi Tauranga (TAG)
2022 Perspectives Te tai ao (Flowers ngā putiputi art collective) Malcolm Smith Gallery, Uxbridge Arts Centre, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2022 Home & Garden (Paul Darragh, Lynette Fisher, Jacquelyn Greenbank, John Roy) presented by Supercut Projects, Tauranga.
2022 LIMB (Lynette Fisher, Dani Henke, Becky Popham) SPACE Gallery, Whanganui.
2022 SUSS (Darcell Apelu, Donna Dinsdale, Heidi Douglas, Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders-O'Shea, Anne Shirley) Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville.
2022 Hand Me Down (Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders O’Shea, Anne Shirley), The Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Waikato University, Hamilton.
2021 Freckle (Lynette Fisher, Nicol Sanders O’Shea, Anne Shirley), Te Puna Gallery, Tauranga.
2020 Venetta Miles Art Award, Finalitst's exhibition,TAG, Tauranga.
2020 Go home, Stay home (Solo), The Incubator Gallery, Tauranga.
2020 Social Print (NZ Print Council), Lysaght Watt Gallery, South Taranaki.
2019 Rotorua Museum Art Award Finalists Exhibition, Rotorua Museum, Rotorua.
2018 La Petit Mort, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville.
2018 IAMWHATIPLAY (Solo), The Incubator Gallery, Tauranga.
