Bio

Julian Fischer is a multi-disciplined Swiss/Zimbabwean artist residing in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has lived most of his life in East and Southern Africa, developing a deep artistic interest in animals and people. Julian’s focus is on figuration, capturing body language and nuances of expression to highlight subjects and their emotional contexts often featuring natural settings, animals, and juxtapositions in scale. His work is an inquiry into our changing relationship with nature and how it affects our understanding and notions of being human in our increasingly synthetic world. His interests in art history, mythology, and storytelling influence his work, along with a fascination for finding the sublime in the mundane.

Over the last decade, Julian has worked as a freelancer in the fields of illustration, design, and animation on a variety of projects for clients such as Nike, McDonald’s, JBL, Google, and Little Brown UK.

 

Exhibitions:

2018: Group Exhibition, Life in The Deep Blue: Creation Out of Rawness, Studio 73, London, UK

2021: Group Exhibition, Thank You Makers Community Exhibition, Makersplace, MP virtual gallery space

2022: Group Exhibition, The Moon and Me, Makersplace, MP Online Exhibition

2023: Group Exhibition, Trees of The Mind, Makersplace, MP Online Exhibition

Resume

Born 1988, Nairobi, Kenya

  • University of Pretoria: BA Hons. Information Design 2008 - 2011

  • Illustrator/Designer: BK Publishing | 2011 - 2012 | Pretoria Area, South Africa

  • 3D animator and Post Production3D animator and Post Production: TX MOTIONMEDIA | 2012 | Johannesburg, South Africa

  • Graphic Designer: Veritran Ltd./ZSS Shared Services | 2015 - 2016 | Harare, Zimbabwe

  • Illustrator/2D Animator: Tastemade UK | 2016 - 2018 | London, United Kingdom

Credits

Book Cover Credits:

  • The Player Of Games: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • The Algebraist: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Matter: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Consider Phlebas: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • The State Of The Art: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Use Of Weapons: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Inversions: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Feersum Endjinn: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Look To Windward: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • The Hydrogen Sonata: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Against A Dark Background: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Excession: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Surface Detail: Iain M. Banks - Orbit Books

  • Eternal War and Peace (omnibus): Joe Haldeman - Éditions Mnémos

  • The Planetaries (omnibus): John Brunner - Éditions Mnémos