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Craig Fisher makes large-scale sculptural installations using various fabrics and materials that question representations of violence, disaster and macho stereotypes. He references and makes work from cloth due to its rich wealth of associations. Fisher employs textiles/craft techniques which are traditionally perceived as being associated to women to question people’s assumptions about what he’s allowed to be as a man and how masculinity is defined.He lives and works in Nottingham and London.Solo show:2008
Hazardous Material Millais Gallery, Southampton (Forthcoming)
Misadventure Galerie BK, Bern, Switzerland
Folly and Violence Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art & Design, Plymouth |
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My work is informed by the physicality of being human and yet the most visible trait comes from a collision between the worlds of reality and fantasy. Taking materials from the everyday and transforming them into fantastical objects or attire, I attempt to investigate my own imagination and explore the boundaries between the everyday and the subconscious or metaphysical worlds of fantasy. I am interested in how science tries to explain or make sense of the world and the way in which we place our trust in what we consider to be fact. |
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The visual components in Nicholls’ paintings are presented as traces of dystopian contemporary landscapes; and the awkward gathering of mark making- fragile and heavier- handed, serve to trigger a disjointed sense of time and association. Drawn from snippets of life found in paraphernalia of sources like magazine images and smears of paint on studio walls, her compositions are compelling images of the struggle between the power and fragility of contemporary life.
She studied at the Royal College of Art and Chelsea College of Art and Design
Selected exhibitions include:
In 2004 her work was selected by Gary Hume for Contemporary Brithish Painting
2006 Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan |
