Apparition

by Naomi Bishop

Naomi Bishop understands that the eye is looking for a place to rest, but that the spirit is restless. In her paintings timescales layer, matter and light splitting her objects – ritual, magical – into dimensions beginning here but arriving someplace just beyond us. These paintings have been shaped by her travels across three continents. They bring together the sheer crystalline force of Finland’s winter daylight, the damp edges of Taipei’s forests, the drama of our own dry scrub’s sandpaper heat. Naomi has been exhibiting internationally since completing a Masters of Fine Art, Chelsea College, London 2003. Her work has been exhibited at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Fondation Hippocrene, and Nicolas Silin, Paris, and The National Univeristy Taiwan, and in Australia with not|fair, Counihan Gallery, Strange Neighbour, and Hazelhurst Gallery. She has been a finalist in significant prizes, and has presented solo exhibitions in Paris, Melbourne and London.