Jean Fisher obituary

My friend Jean Fisher, who has died aged 74, was one of the most distinctive British writers on art of her generation. She believed in art as a radical practice, something which opened up “unauthorised” realities.The artists she championed and wrote about – who included Steve McQueen, James Coleman, Jimmie Durham, Judith Barry, Jack Goldstein, Willie Doherty, Francis Alÿs, Avis Newman, Susan Hiller and Avis Newman – were all, to some extent, wrestling with issues of