{"id":8206,"date":"2014-05-16T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2014-05-29T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:18:44","slug":"qa-with-craig-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=8206","title":{"rendered":"Q&A with Craig Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi, my name\u2019s Craig Fisher\u2026 Artist, Dad, Lecturer, TV watcher and occasional shopper\u2026<\/p>\n

Hello, how are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel that I should be really upbeat in my response and say that I\u2019m great thanks (and if this was recorded you would hear lots of whoops and cheers in the background like the ones you hear on any American chat-show) but really I\u2019m a bit knackered\u2026 It\u2019s all the crap TV watching and occasional shopping I\u2019m putting myself through\u2026 not the full time teaching post, curatorial projects, being a dad, moving house or making art that I\u2019ve been doing lately.<\/p>\n

What do you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I already covered this in my introduction, \u2018<\/strong>Artist, Dad, Lecturer, TV watcher and occasional shopper\u2026\u2019 but if you want a bit more detail then I make art, currently large-scale sculptural installations employing textiles and paintings that explore representations of violence, disaster and macho stereotypes.<\/p>\n

I spend a lot of time<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking at, reading, thinking and talking about art\u2026 and when I\u2019m not doing that, then I\u2019m probably watching too much TV or shopping for books and Trainers.<\/p>\n

What have you been doing recently? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve actually just shown my work in a solo exhibition in Nottingham called \u2018Up To No Good\u2019 at Lace Market Gallery where I exhibited amongst other work my \u2018Homemade Devices\u2019 which are an ongoing series of sculptural objects thatexplore my interest in the formal inventiveness and provisionality of improvised explosive devices (found whilst trawling the internet) as well as their potent potential as objects of threat and danger. I have also been making a number of larger installations that incorporate wall paintings such as \u2018Disastrous Situations (Wreckage)\u2019, which was exhibited as part of the 9th <\/sup>Kaunas Art Biennial, \u2018Unitext\u2019 in Kaunas, Lithuania. I also participated in a group exhibition at Oriel Davies Gallery last summer called \u2018Be Our Guest\u2019 in which the gallery was turned into a fictional B&B. I actually got to stay in a couple of great B&B\u2019s in Newtown as part of my research for the exhibition, there was one in particular that was wall to wall Laura Ashley<\/i> which went on to be the inspiration for my two large scale wall paintings in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

What are you doing for Art Across the City in Swansea?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will be making a large-scale sculptural installation that comprises a number of elements including \u2018soft\u2019 barb-wire and debris exploring notions of violence and war specifically responding to the era of World War 1, as my commission for Art Across the City is in collaboration with the National Waterfront Museum. After looking at lots of different archive material my commission will involve making a series of sculptural painted facades (using different textile\/wallpaper patterns as source material from the period) that represent both the trenches (front line) and the bombed out interior of a home which will reflect on the effect of War.<\/p>\n

What are your ideas behind the work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m interested in how the theatricality of the installations I make like \u2018Homefront\u2019 allow the viewer to engage in creating their own narrative. I like to think of the installations as \u2018sculptural paintings\u2019, which allows you to experience the work physically by engaging in this \u2018soft\u2019 world of contradictions. I\u2019m interested in juxtaposing representations of filmic\/cartoon violence and images of war with decorative and ornamental motifs so that the sense of saturation at play makes it easy to miss the horror due to the seductive nature and materiality of the artwork.<\/p>\n

What do you think the public will make of it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure really but I hope they enjoy experiencing it as much as I enjoy making it\u2026<\/p>\n

What are you up to next?\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well apart from getting sucked back into crap TV watching and working with the current Year 3 Fine Art students towards their upcoming degree show at Nottingham Trent University where I work, I hope to get some time to go and make some more \u2018stuff\u2019 in my studio at Primary <\/a>. I also plan to continue developing the program for my curatorial project Mrs Rick\u2019s Cupboard<\/em><\/a>\u00a0which, involves asking emerging and established contemporary artists such the current artist Jo Addison to present their work within an unconventional gallery setting, the cupboard in the corner of my studio.<\/p>\n

Craig<\/a>‘s work, Home Front<\/em>, is located in the foyer of the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.<\/p>\n

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