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It’s Hard To Make a Stand by Steve Bishop
Steve Bishop is based in London. His work deals with the complexities of representation. Often making abstractions from popular culture, his work explores the way in which meaning is mediated in an image driven world. Bishop's work engages with the dialectic of desire and value. Using juxtapositions of the profane and the momentous that are characteristic of advertising, Bishop subverts our conflated understanding of beauty and meaning. It's Hard to Make a Stand takes the form of a defaced monument as a means of setting up a sleight gesture with a massive integral outcome. The fur coat rests in a way that it transcends its own materialistic baggage, casting the surreal image of an over-sized dog's head upon the body of a horse. This juxtaposition results in an integral interdependent relationship. Multiple layers of representation are collaged within one form. At its core It's Hard to Make a Stand is a simultaneous dependence on image and material, encompassing concepts of unification, objectification, personification and allusion. Much of Bishop's work is concerned with ideas of layering and distance. Recent sculptural work has involved a utilisation of clothing and bedding as...
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