Fiona Crisp (Untitled), 2000 (installation view)
Fiona Crisp (Untitled), 2000 (installation view)
Fiona Crisp (Untitled), 2000 (installation view)
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For her first exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, Fiona Crisp has installed
a series of photographic works. With this installation Crisp continues themes
established in earlier work such as, Still Films, her series of large scale
photographs, which have been shown in several gallery and non-gallery sites
including Camerawork last year. Reminiscent of cinematic screens, the works
approached photography as a physical as well as visual construct in our perception
of space, place and time.
These new works were made during Crisp’s fellowship at the Berwick Gymnasium
Gallery in the winter months of 1999-2000. Within the border town of Berwick
upon Tweed, Crisp adopted a working method more akin to archaeology or surveying
than photography, using her home-made cameras to excavate spaces of visual and
psychological resonance within the town and it’s surrounding environment.
Coming from a background of sculpture, Crisp’s work is concerned with
the interaction of the body and the space that surrounds it. In this new series
she carefully plots the interior structure of mobile ‘containers’
such as a car or a caravan, as frames through which a view of the exterior world
is formed, contrasting the banal interiors with the sublime beyond.
Works commissioned by English Heritage and Northern Arts through the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship 1999/2000
Born 1966 Derbyshire, UK, Lives and works Hexham, Northumbria Studied 1991–1993 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (Fine Art – Media Postgraduate); 1986–1989 W.S.C.A.D, Farnham (Fine Art – Sculpture BA Hons); 1984–1985 Derbyshire College of Higher Education (Art Foundation) Solo Exhibitions 2006 Abteilung, The Greenhouse, St Peter Port, Guernsey 2003 Santa Maria, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth 2000 Fiona Crisp, Matt’s Gallery, London; Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery [catalogue] 1999 Still Films, Camerawork, London 1996 Omphalos, The Conductor’s Hallway Gallery, London Group Exhibitions 2006 Beauty and the Beast, Stourhead Landscape Gardens, Wiltshire; Phantasm, Market Gallery, Glasgow; You Shall Know Our Velocity, BALTIC, Gateshead; Responding to Rome, The Estorick Collection, London 2005 Fiona Crisp, Matthew Tickle, Phillip Warnell, Hyper Passive, Camera Obscura, Shock, Matt’s Gallery, London 2004 Ideen von-Kunslen-Auktion, Galerie Luecke und Partner, Berlin; Para Sites, Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset 2002 Fiona Crisp / Mary Maclean / Ozhang, Seven Worcester Terrace Gallery, Bath; Fellowship Exhibition, The British School at Rome [catalogue] 2001 Diari di Lavoro …, Galleria Nationale d’Arte Moderna, Rome 2000 Stadt München Photo-Biennale, Galerie Stadt München, Amsterdam, and touring to Room 212, Auckland, New Zealand; Flicker, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery 1998 Disrupting the Scene, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery; Dark Field, The Boiler House at Hackney Wick, London 1997 Oranges & Lemons, Peninsula Foundation, Eindhoven [catalogue] Awards & Fellowships 2004 Nominated for Beck’s Futures, ICA, London; International Artist in Residence Programme, Guernsey College, Guernsey C.I. 2003 Nominated for Citigroup Photography Prize, 2004 2001 Wingate Scholarship, The British School at Rome, (October 2001 - March 2002); Visual Artists Award, London Arts 1999 Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick-upon-Tweed (four month residency); Nominated for Citibank Photography Prize, 2000 1998 Awards to Individual Artists, London Arts Board 1997 Art for Everyone, Arts Council (group recipient) 1996 Awards to Artists Exhibiting Abroad, The British Council Teaching Current: VT in Fine Art, BA / MA University of Northumbria, Newcastle; 2002/3 VT Fine Art (photography) BA Camberwell, London 1998-2005 visiting lecturer at various institutions incl. Slade, Camberwell, Winchester, Coventry, Sunderland, Newcastle Collections Arts Council Collection; Hayward Gallery, London; Worcester City Art Gallery; Private Collections
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2006 You Shall Know Our Velocity: Artist in the North East, Paul Usherwood, Art Monthly 295, April p34; You Shall Know Our Velocity, Alfred Hickling, The Guardian 1 February, p36; You Shall Know Our Velocity, Amy Rudd, Metro 31 January, p22; You Shall Know Our Velocity, Robert Clarke, Guardian Buide 27 January, p36; Best of British... Michael Glover, The Times (The Knowledge), 14 January p34/35 2005 Fiona Crisp, Matthew Tickle, Phillip Warnell, Sarah James, Art Monthly, issue 290, October; Fiona Crisp, Matthew Tickle, Phillip Warnell, Helen Sumpter, Time Out, issue 1831, 21-28 December 2003 The Passive Eye, Roy Exley, Contemporary, Issue 56, Autumn; Santa Maria, Stephen Bull, Source, Issue 35, Summer; Santa Maria, Jessica Lack, Guardian Guide, May 10; Santa Maria, Amber Cowan, The Times ‘Play’, May 3; Santa Maria, Barry Rutter, The News, May 2 2001 Fiona Crisp, Roy Exley, artpress 266, March; Fiona Crisp, Roy Exley, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 32, January 2000 Fiona Crisp, What’s On, uklandscape.net, December; Fiona Crisp, Martin Coomer, Time Out, Reviews, 6-13 December; Fiona Crisp / Matt’s Gallery, John Coleman, What’s On in London, 22-29 November; Flicker, Richard Jevons, The Leeds Guide, October; The Big Show, The Times Metro, 16 September; Interview - Berwick Gymnasium, Richard Jevons, The North Guide, September; Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Howard Walker, The Journal, 11 August 1999 Still Films, Simon Morissey, Untitled Magazine, Issue 19; Still Films, Chris Townsend, Hotshoe International, May; Still Films, Julia Thrift, Time Out, 24 February; Disrupting the Scene, Juan Cruz, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 21 1998 Dark Field, Maite Lorés, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 20; Dark Field, Acushla Bastible, Circa Magazine, No. 85, Autumn; Dark Field, Time Out, 24 June 1997 Oranges & Lemons, Angelique Spaninks, Eindhovens Dagblad Publications 2002 The British School at Rome, Fine Arts 2001-2002, Pub. BSR. 2000 Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Pub. English Heritage/Fiona Crisp 1997 Welcome Back to the Human Race, Pub. Peninsula Foundation, Holland
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