Visual artist and storyteller, Vanessa Fisher is a Garumgah / Dungibara woman from South East Queensland with over three decades of visual arts experience. She has been at the forefront of public arts in Queensland. Vanessa's work was featured on the front cover of the book Waking Up to the Dreamtime. Her work is held by the National Museum of Australia, the Queensland Museum and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Her public art includes the pathway design in the Roma Street Parklands "Mairwair Warril - Brisbane River". She has been gathering the stories and poems of Brisbane's West End - to enable aged and disabled Queenslanders to tell their life stories. She belongs to the Turrbal language group, whose country includes the Brisbane area. Vanessa performed traditional songlines and Dreamtime stories in English and indigenous languages from Australia--Duungidjawu, Turrbul, Wakka Wakka, and Gubbi Gubbi--accompanied by Jimmy Smith on didgeridoo (Cosponsored by the Australian Aboriginal Theatre Initiative) at the The Fourth People's Poetry Gathering (2006) in New York and has performed with the Daki Budtcha group.
