Craig Fisher
Folly and Violence
Tue 5 February - Sat 23 February 2008

Folly and Violence brings together a number of Craig Fisher’s large scale sculptural installations using various fabrics that question representations of violence, disaster and macho stereotypes.

“I am particularly interested in playing with boundaries, mixing techniques of art and craft I reference both high and low culture and compose narratives that sit between reality and fantasy.”

“I make work that operates in a space in between disciplines/ boundaries, the work is not identifiable as any one thing, be it image or object, craft/fashion or art, furniture or sculpture, high or low, masculine or feminine, functional or dysfunctional.”

Fisher explores these boundaries as potential spaces of slippage, of accidents, 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.

While the individual details of the installations 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!

“I am trying to create an aftermath of multiple popular references, which need to be unpicked. Familiarity, confused by representational play recedes leaving a nightmarish playground of soft-edged things to consider.”

Craig Fisher lives and works in Nottingham and London. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally in a range of group shows in cities including London, Leeds, Newcastle, Sydney, Los Angeles and New York.

VISITING ARTIST TALK:

Tuesday 5^th February
Studio Theatre, PCAD 5:00 - 6:00 pm
(PUBLIC TALK - OPEN TO ALL)