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Fisher studied at Brighton University and afterwards at the Royal College of Art in London. As in the present work, Fisher often appropriates designs and patterns from textiles, wallpapers and other domestic sources and uses them within his work. In an artist’s statement, Fisher has said, ‘The painting depicts a fraught or charged conversation between two elderly travellers. The image is intended to place the viewer in a curious, awkward position. It invites the question: Are we part of a three-way exchange, or eavesdroppers on a private dialogue? Either way, a suspicion that there might be another presence outside of the picture animates the space and reinforces a sense of disturbance between the two figures. The painting was made through an accumulation of scraped back and abraded layers of imagery.
Title
I Live in Fear
Date
2007
Medium
oil on linen
Measurements
H 97 x W 102 cm
Accession number
JC127
Work type
Painting
Signature/marks description
Inscribed indistinctly and dated, verso: ‘J… 2007’