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ABOUT FIELDWORK
Fieldwork Grows from Fischer Arts' roots
Fischer Arts was a well-loved brick-and-mortar gallery on the town green in Chester, Vermont that celebrated art and artists inspired by nature.
Fieldwork is the next version. Same eye, same subject, no single room to hold it.
Fieldwork is part archive, part gallery, and part journal
bringing beautiful works of art together with reflections on a scientist's life in nature.
About the Curator
Before this was a gallery, it was a discipline...
My name is Iris.
I've spent many years working professionally as a veterinarian and field biologist, going out into the natural world - ocean cliffs, coastlines, marshes
- to watch animals closely
and bring back a record of what I saw.
That work has a name. It's called fieldwork.
Fieldwork, the gallery, is the same practice with a camera and a curator's eye. It brings together antique natural history prints, contemporary work, and photographs of my own.
Different hands, different centuries, one habit:
go out, look closely, bring something back.
Some of the records are mine. Some are historical.
Others come from fine artists from
New England and beyond.
All come from someone who paid attention to the
natural world with a passion for sharing with others.
The Field Station
Every field biologist works from a station.
A base camp...
The place you return to, where the records get sorted and the next trip out gets planned.
Mine is a house in the hills of southern Vermont.
I call it the Field Station.
It's where the work is made, gathered, and kept, with the natural world starting just past the door.
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