Biography
Fiona Crisp (b. Derbyshire, UK 1966) studied at Derbyshire College of Higher Education, then West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham (1986-89) and at the Slade School of Fine Art (1991-93). She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, spending time working in Norway and in Rome where she held a Wingate Scholarship at The British School. In 1999/2000 she spent a period of time working in the North East of England whilst on the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship and in 2003, she moved to Northumberland with her partner and children. In 2006 Crisp undertook a residency based at the 18th-century landscape garden at Stourhead, jointly commissioned by the British School at Rome and the National Trust. She is known for creating installations of large-scale photographs that question the ontological presence of the photographic image. The residency produced images that have become key to Crisp's exploration of the 'construction' of view (in visual, political and philosophical terms) and culminated in her third exhibition for Matt's Gallery, Negative Capability: The Stourhead Cycle (2012).
