They Call Me Witch
Artist & Works
Artist & Works
Ashleigh Fisk
Ashleigh Fisk’s practice draws from history, myth, and collective memory to create relic-like forms that explore the veil between tangible and imagined worlds. Engaging with folkloric traditions and queered histories, her work seeks cyclical narratives where time, belief, and landscape converge. Using ceramics—a medium rooted in human origins—Fisk examines how bodies and memories become embedded in material form. Her installations evoke the liminality of museum spaces, where objects oscillate between art and utility, and temporalities collapse in proximity to the viewer. Scale shifts and casted fixtures puncture space like portals into alternate timelines, their surfaces brushed by fingerprints that signal human presence. Through these abundant yet body-less environments, Fisk gestures toward the many lives, real and imagined, that inhabit her shimmering worlds.
Fisk graduated from Slade School of Fine Arts in 2021. In 2024 she had her first solo show at SET in Lewisham, which was funded by Arts Council England.
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Ephemera
(2025)
Suspended or hung on the gallery walls, a collection of ceramics and plant materials come together as ephemeral fragments — small details assembled in the moment to form a site-specific installation. The work takes on an altar-like sentimentality, gathering objects that hold symbolic, literal, and metaphorical meanings for the maker or diviner. Through this process, Fisk collapses distinctions between practice and presentation; between studio sweepings, trinket shelves, and ritual gestures, creating a space where the purpose of each object remains ambiguous, yet charged with quiet significance.