Adrian Fisher

Adrian Fisher ( * August 5, 1951 ) is a British designer of mazes and pavement mosaics and book author. His work to date includes about 500 properties in 30 countries.

Life and work

Adrian Fisher is the son of James Frederick Fisher and Rosemary Sterling Hill. After schooling and education in Portsmouth, he began his career as a management consultant. Together with Randoll Coate 1979, he founded the company Minotaur design that the design and construction of mazes and labyrinths pavement devoted himself.

Fishers first maze was a small, planted with holly plant on private property in Bournemouth. There followed in 1980 the Archbishop's Maze ( " maze of the Archbishop "), a turf maze at Greys Court, which was dedicated on the occasion of his appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie. Fisher became famous with the 1984 created the International Festival Gardens in Liverpool Beatles ' Maze, an investment in the form of a pond with apfelförmigem floor plan and stepping stones, in the center of which stood a 18 -ton, 15.5 -meter-long sculpture of the Yellow Submarine.

Fisher founded his second company in 1983, the Adrian Fisher Mazes Ltd.. More artistic attention he reached in 1984 by his participation in the Bath Festival of Arts, where he created a modern form of grass labyrinth with the Beazer Maze Gardens. In 1986, he invented a new form of the maze, the " mathematical maze ". This is a designed as a pavement maze system, in addition to geometric shapes and colors introduced that enable certain rules the walkthrough.

Fisher developed in 1993, the first corn maze (English: pun maize maze ). It was a temporary maze in Pennsylvania with an area of ​​more than one hectare, the way system abbildete a stylized Stegosaurus. Many plants of this kind followed, their surfaces were further increased.

Fisher were several designer prices and a gold medal awarded as International Garden designer. In the Guinness Book of World Records, he finds himself with six entries. Fisher works in the European office of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA ), an organization of developers, designers and builders of thematically oriented objects such as museums and theme parks. He's guild of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners of London. In 2008, Fisher founded the Adrian Fisher Design Ltd.

Adrian Fisher was married from 1975 to 1996 with Dorothy Jane Pollard. In 1997 he married Marie Ann Butterworth. He lives in Durweston ( Dorset ). Fisher has two daughters from her first and a son from his second marriage.

Works

Fishers works include hedge mazes except turf mazes and also paving mosaics with labyrinthine or irrgartenähnlichen patterns. His early works are to be found mainly in the UK, now there are systems built to his designs in many countries around the world. In Germany, his works at the Sea Life Centre in Berlin and Hamburg Dungeon can be seen, both are mirror mazes.

Many of Fishers hedge mazes make not the traditional, formal geometric design of such systems on, but show in a novel design symbolic forms that can be seen as a super characters from the sky and possess the characteristics of land art.

Hedge mazes

  • Newquay Zoo ( Cornwall): Dragon, Maze with the floor plan of a stylized dragon (1984, with Randoll Coate )
  • Blenheim Palace: Marlborough Maze, great symbolic maze on the subject of the Battle of Blenheim (1988-1991, together with Randoll Coate )
  • Maidstone ( Kent): Leeds Castle, square area with a panoramic hill, a cave and an underground output ( from 1986 to 1988, with Vernon Gibberd and Randoll Coate )
  • Windsor ( Berkshire ): Legoland, Celtic Maze and Maze Tudor (1996, with Rodney Beaumont of Gillespie's )
  • Perth ( Scotland): Scone Palace, symbolic system in the form of a five -pointed star, the emblem of the Murray family
  • Blessington ( County Wicklow, Ireland): Russ Borough Maze, square plant in the appearance of a brilliant-cut diamonds, in a target Cupid Statue ( with Randoll Coate )
  • Merritown House (Dorset): Alice -in- Wonderland -Maze, a regular octagon for literary figure (1992, with Randoll Coate )
  • Vaalserberg ( Limburg): Drielandenpunt, investment in the form of coat of arms with motifs of Riparian, three bridges (1991 /1992)

Lawn and pavement labyrinths

  • West Palm Beach (Florida, USA): Norton Museum of Art, Theseus Slaying the Minotaur, rectangular floor mosaic (not walk ) Irrgartenmuster (1977 )
  • Henley-on -Thames ( Oxfordshire ): Greys Court, Archbishop's Maze, red brick paths in grass, seven whorls, center with Sundial (1981 )
  • Bath ( Somerset ): Beazer Gardens, elliptical lawn maze, seven whorls, center with Mosaic (1984 )
  • Long Melford ( Suffolk ): Kentwell Hall, Tudor Rose Maze, pavement labyrinth in the courtyard, a Tudor rose in red and white (1985, with Randoll Coate )
  • Wyck Rissington Church ( Gloucestershire ): Maze of the Mysteries of the Gospels, wall mosaic by a ruined hedge maze of the clergyman Harry Cheales (1988 )
  • Leicester: Mathematical Colour Maze grounds with brick paving at the Mathematics Building, University of Leicester (1991 )

Mirror mazes

Writings

  • Adrian Fisher, Georg Gerster: The Art of the Maze. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1990, ISBN 0-297-83027-9.
  • Adrian Fisher, Howard Loxton: secret of the labyrinth. an interactive guide to the most fascinating labyrinths of the world. Translated from English by Karl Friedrich horns. AT, Aarau 1998, ISBN 3-85502-640-8.
  • Labyrinths and mazes. The big play and adventure book. Translated from English by Anna -Christine Rassmann and Angela Schumitz. AT, Berlin, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-03-800298-4.

Classification

Fisher tied with most of his works to the revival of the labyrinthine subject, as shown by Michael Ayrton and Randoll Coate, who had created the first symbolic hedge maze in Lechlade Mill in the second half of the 20th century, slightly later, in different ways occurred. In contrast to the approach of Ayrton, who had initiated a new beginning, and operation of contemporary artists such as Alice Aycock, Elaine M. Goodwin and Maggie Berkowitz Fisher focused on the construction of popular mazes, whose subjects would allow more new variants. Fishers mosaic representations devote themselves often the original Minotaur theme.

In particular, Fishers large hedge mazes follow primarily the requirements of amusement and theme parks. According to the high audience numbers, these units are equipped with wide paths and waiving dead ends that might disappoint the visitors created. In addition, the visitor is often entertained by interactive elements such as doors or Surprise fountains. Bridges and great views pedestals complete Fisher's rear assets. Its maze - creations are different from the more garden historic oriented individual works about Dennis Fisher ( Chatsworth, 1962, not related to Adrian Fisher), Piet Hein ( Egeskov, 1986) or Thomas Michael Bauermeister (Berlin- Marzahn, 2005-2007)

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