BRIAN BISHOP

STATEMENT OF INTENTION

My studio practice is concerned with the process wherein the photographic image remediated through the discursive and lyrical filter of painting can expose latent meaning. The consistent thread throughout my practice has been an investigation of the interstice between fact and fiction in our contemporary life mired in quotidian minutiae, documentation and embellishment. My interest in this type of parafiction, as well as non-linear narrative structures, is an attempt to pinpoint the overlaps between the tangible and intangible, the conceptual and visceral, the forgotten and remembered, and the public versus private.