Darren C Fisher
Artist · Researcher · Educator
I am an artist, researcher and educator working across comics, drawing, graphic recording and visual storytelling. My practice combines creative work with research, using drawing and sequential art to document experience, communicate complex ideas and explore the relationship between image, narrative and lived experience.
My work spans autobiographical and diary comics, research and informational comics, illustration and live graphic recording, alongside teaching and practice-based research.
PRACTICE
Comics have been central to my practice for a lifetime. My doctoral research explored truth, identity and representation in autobiographical comics, while my ongoing diary-comics practice uses everyday drawing as a space for observation, experimentation and reflection.
Alongside personal work, I produce comics and illustrations for research, education and public communication. These projects often involve translating specialist knowledge, lived experience or complex discussions into accessible visual narratives.
Graphic recording extends this approach into live events, workshops and conferences, where conversations are transformed into illustrated records that capture both information and the character of the event.
ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL
Academic
Senior Lecturer
Comic & Concept Art
University for the Creative Arts, UK
Adjunct Research Fellow
Film, Games & Animation
Swinburne University of Technology, AU
Doctor of Visual Arts
Bachelor Animation (1st Class Hons)
Griffith University, Australia
Selected Highlights
- ABC Top 5 HASS Early Career Researcher
- Kicked Out During Coronavirus included in the US Library of Congress Coronavirus Art Collection. 100,000 reads in it’s first month Awarded Q1 Research recognition
- Research and creative work published through ABC, The Conversation. academic journals, book chapters & international conference presentations.
- Graphic recording for the European Association of Conservatoires Annual Congress
- Practice spanning commissioned, academic and independent visual communication
CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic appointments, publications, research outputs, creative works, commissions, exhibitions and teaching experience
GET IN TOUCH
For commissions, graphic recording, research collaborations, speaking, teaching or other enquiries, get in touch