Artist's Statement
Norwegian Series #3 is taken from a group of works that were made in the Vinstra region of central Norway in 1999. The images look out from a rudimentary mountain dwelling and were all taken at different stages of a summer night - this was about 2am.

Biography
Fiona Crisp (b. 1966) completed a postgraduate degree at The Slade School of Fine Art, London in 1993. Since this time she has exhibited both nationally and internationally, recently showing works under the title Hyper Passive, Camera Obscura, Shock, 2005 at Matt’s Gallery, London and in the group show You Shall Know Our Velocity, 2006 at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. In 1999/2000 Crisp spent a period of time working in the North East of England whilst on the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship. Since then she has spent time working in Norway and in Rome where she held a Wingate Scholarship at The British School. Work from this period was shown in the exhibition Santa Maria commissioned for Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth in 2003. Recent exhibitions include Phantasm at Market Gallery, Glasgow and Abteilung at The Gallery, St Peter Port Guernsey - a commission of five, new large-scale photographic works made as the result of research undertaken in a German Military Underground Hospital on the island of Guernsey. In August/September 2006 Crisp undertook a six-week residency at Stourhead House (NT), Wiltshire jointly commissioned by The National Trust, The British School at Rome and Hotbath Gallery, Bath looking at the relationship between Classicism and The Contemporary. The resulting work will form an archival portfolio to be permanently held in the NT collection at Stourhead House. Currently Crisp is working with Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA) on a commission of new works based at the 17th C. lead mines of Killhope, County Durham. These works, along with those from several other series including the Early Christian Catacombs of Rome will form the forthcoming solo exhibition Subterrania at the newly refurbished Newlyn Art Gallery in September 2008. The exhibition will be accompanied by a monograph entitled Hyper Passive surveying Crisp’s work over the last 10 years, to be published by Newlyn Art Gallery and Matt’s Gallery, London. Fiona Crisp lives and works in Northumberland and is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.

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