Carly Fischer is a sculptural and audio installation artist from Narrm/Melbourne. Her work explores the smaller details, peripheral zones and hidden histories of places, creating alternate narratives that question broader cultural and colonial perspectives. Engaging with environments through a fragmentary and meandering process of objects, materials, sounds and histories, her sculptural and sonic reconstructions reflect on places as complex and shifting sites of accumulation, interaction and negotiation. Carly has exhibited in Australia, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Scotland, Japan and the US through solo, group and collaborative projects and residencies, including at Bus Projects and Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, Gippsland Art Gallery, KWADRAT and REH Kunst, Germany and MU Artspace, Netherlands. She completed an MFA in 2015 at Monash University, focusing on some of the problems with site-specific practice in a contemporary context.

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
04 February / 12 March 2023

CARLY FISCHER & EDWINA STEVENS
Velodrome

Velodrome is a collaborative, site-specific sculptural and audiovisual installation by Carly Fischer and Edwina Stevens that responds to the Coburg Velodrome as a point of departure for investigating some of the intersecting details and histories of Coburg, Melbourne. Oscillating around Coburg's industrial fringes, the installation reflects on how these in-between spaces and their accumulations of forgotten fragments, traces and tones reveal hidden histories and generate improvisational dialogues with local places. In the installation, sculptural, video and sonic fragments collected from these places are reassembled and reconstructed into a constantly shifting conversation throughout the duration of the exhibition. Through its intersecting loops, layers and accumulations, 'Velodrome' considers the importance of creating more generative engagements with our local places through their peripheral spaces. Re-contextualised from the artists' local, suburban Melbourne environment to Kyneton, with a few accumulations along the way, the installation specifically reflects on how the hyper-local can be translated and generate dialogues with other places.

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