craig fisher
Craig Fisher makes large-scale sculptural installations using various fabrics that question representations of violence and disaster. While the individual details of the installations Fisher makes may reference the latest in avant-garde design, the overall impression is that you are being transported by your TV to the latest media disaster: Or is it a film set – Kill Bill meets South Park, The Shining via The Wizard of Oz and then back again through Bowling for Columbine! Fisher creates an aftermath of multiple popular references. Familiarity, confused by representational play recedes leaving a nightmarish playground of soft-edged things to consider. He is particularly interested in playing with boundaries, mixing techniques of art and craft, referencing both high and low culture and juxtaposing the pictorial with the sculptural as potential spaces of slippage, which allow for discoveries beyond confined and referenced fields of art production. The audience will hopefully perceive this ‘state-in-between’ as a challenge to their habits of looking. Craig Fisher (b. 1976) graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with an MA in Fine Art in 2000. He lives and works in Nottingham. Fisher has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Misadventure, Galerie BK, Bern, Switzerland (2008), Folly & Violence, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art & Design (2008), Hold Your Fire, Rokeby, London (2007) and Bloody Mess, Leeds Metropolitan University (2006). Group exhibitions include CutnShunt, Contemporary Art Projects, London (2008), Unpicked and dis-mantled, Kaunas Art Biennial TEXTILE 07, Kaunas, Lithuania (2007), A Comedy of Errors, Artspace, Sydney, Australia (2007), Stuff Happens, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (2007) Ultrasonic International 1, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles (2006), The 16th Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (2006) and Boys Who Sew, Crafts Council touring exhibition (2004). Forthcoming exhibitions include Hazardous Materials, Millais Gallery, Southampton Solent University, Southampton (2008), Foolish Act, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art & Design (2009) and Somewhere Here, Plan 9, Bristol (2008)
