Image-ness/Object-ness: a flattened encounter

Fisher, Craig (2014) Image-ness/Object-ness: a flattened encounter. [Exhibition/show, Public art, Sculpture]

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Homefront

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Creators:
Fisher, Craig
Description/Abstract:

‘Homefront’ was commissioned by David Hastie (Director) and Gordon Dalton, project manager at LOCWS International in partnership with (Andrew Deathe) the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. Fisher’s large-scale public artwork was realized after exploring material related specifically to the era of World War 1 such as propaganda posters, Dazzle/ pattern as camouflage, the lost generation, women in Wales through textiles/domestic interior and the War in Wales through the available archives across different museums across Wales (National Waterfront Museum, National Wool Museum and St Fagans National History Museum) to explore different facets of violence and war. Fisher develops a critical enquiry around notions of war, it's aftermath, disaster and gender stereotypes in relation to a continued exploration of the seductive power of media representations of violence and destruction.
The work employs the architectural façade as a device to explore mediated narrative constructions and theatricality, the pictorial experience of sculpture is particularly important to this current inquiry and to the ways the work disrupts conventions. Pattern and craft techniques are investigated to complicate and subvert the artefact, challenging received ideas of masculinity and muddling ‘male’ and ‘female’ signifiers. LOCWS International specifically invited Fisher due to the nature of his continued exploration of the subversive potential of textile craft techniques in the fabrication of the installations/artifacts he makes.
‘Homefront’ was sited and exhibited at the National Waterfront Museum in April 2014, coinciding with LOCWS International's Art Across The City, 2014, which was their largest event to date (visited by 44,000 people,) with over 25 public artworks exhibited across Swansea.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Date:
April 2014
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Homefront, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales, UK
2 April 2014
1 June 2014
Schools:
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
Related URLs:
Depositing User:
Mr Craig Fisher
Date Deposited:
11 May 2017 16:41
Last Modified:
14 Feb 2018 12:47
Art/Design Categories:
Exhibition/show, Public art, Sculpture
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3351

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