SEAN ALEXANDER FISHER
SEAN ALEXANDER FISHER
INFORMATION
Sean Fisher is a Scottish artist and mechanical engineer working across film, sculpture and performance. His practice explores the place of engineering and technology within culture, using humour and absurdity to examine persistence, obsession and repetition, while questioning ideas of efficiency, usefulness and technological progress.
He describes his approach as “pataphysical engineering”: engineering for imaginary solutions, where engineering becomes a critical and narrative method rather than simply a way of solving problems.
Fisher holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Robert Gordon University and a master’s degree in Product Design Engineering from the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow, before completing a second master’s degree in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven with support from a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship. His practice has since received support from Amarte Fonds, Het Cultuurfonds, the Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards (VACMA) and Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven. He has undertaken funded residencies at Spazju Kreattiv in Malta, Make Eindhoven and VARES in Estonia, with work shown through exhibitions, performances and screenings in the UK, the Netherlands, Malta and Germany. Alongside his practice, Fisher teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and works between Scotland and continental Europe. His work will be presented at the University of Salford as part of Sustainable Darkroom’s Seeds of Change in October 2026.
Original works on Paper
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine, 2022.
Crayon on french graph paper,
650x500.
Wright Engine No. 2, 2022.
Crayon on french graph paper,
650x500.
Pratt and Whitney S3H1, 2022.
Crayon on french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Triptych, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine , 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 1 , 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 2, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 3, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 4, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 5, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 6, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 7, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 8, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 9, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Rolls Royce Merlin Engine Offprint 10, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Thank God For Miss Shilling’s Orifice, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Thank God For Miss Shilling’s Orifice, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Thank God For Miss Shilling’s Orifice, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Thank God For Miss Shilling’s Orifice, 2022.
Screenprint french graph paper,
650x500.
Sea Fish Testing Facility
NED Chair
Steel Tubular Frame, Hammerite Paint, Sailcloth.
900x800x800mm
It’s a Fokking Shelving Unit
Anodised Aluminium, Stainless Steel Hardware
2100x1000x500mm
Parachute Chair
Steel, Hammered Paint, Package Parachute, 1000x1000mm.
Anvil
Stainless Steel, Hammered Paint, 600x400x400mm, 1000g.
Steel, Hammered Paint, Package Parachute, 1000x1000mm.
Anvil
Stainless Steel, Hammered Paint, 600x400x400mm, 1000g.
Packable chair and lightweight anvil for a client in Amsterdam.
Alluminator
9 piece dinner table set, Aluminium 1000x150mm.
9 piece dinner table set, Aluminium 1000x150mm.
Hand machined Aluminium candle set, salt and pepper shakers and olive dishes.
All I want is a Tarai-Buné, 2020.
All I want is a Tarai-Buné is a series of investigations into the environmental concerns regarding the Tarai-Buné.
Firstly the film questions the bath tub thats a boat, asking questions from an engineer's point of view like ‘how does a flat-bottomed boat propel itself?’ What knowledge you should have before you start making your own, and if you can make your own, should you?
Tarai-Barūn, 2021.
A second film questions knowledge supply chains, how information is passed through different educational systems and if we should in the West should adopt these Eastern apprenticeships.
Modernity Intercepts, 2021.
the triptych of images trace a local tree’s transformation: first natural, then coated in fiberglass, and finally painted blue — paired with a performed poem reflecting ecological rupture on Sado Island and in my own city.
Moving a barrel is easy
Becoming weightless
Carried or Rolled
Relieving laden mothers
The equilibrium shifts
The Tarai-Buné goes
Modernity Intercepts
Nothing flows
The coating is a barrier
Stifling the interaction
Between people
And water
Becoming weightless
Carried or Rolled
Relieving laden mothers
The equilibrium shifts
The Tarai-Buné goes
Modernity Intercepts
Nothing flows
The coating is a barrier
Stifling the interaction
Between people
And water
Heirloom Information
Heirloom Information is a sculptural piece that depicts a Grumman Fighter Jet and the Fibreglass ladies' bicycle. The knowledge acquired working for Grumman was passed down years later to James’ daughter, and she built the Type-9 Ladies Bicycle.
1000x800mm
Steel,Brass, Gouache on Plastic.
1000x800mm
Steel,Brass, Gouache on Plastic.
