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Do it Yourself.

Nothing is Forever

‘Do it Yourself’ was Fisher’s contribution to a group exhibition at the South London Gallery, Nothing is Forever (2010). It is a painting of an oversized hand grenade poised on a shelf and a painted wall of giant pink bricks which both represent and physically block one of windows. It continues Fisher’s interest in representing filmic/ cartoon violence, subverting them by juxtaposition with decorative motifs, referring to both ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture and employing contradictionay methods (ppt: 2-3). It contested and played with pictoral, sculptural and ‘site specific’ boundaries of art practices, juxtaposing the pictorial with the sculptural to create potential spaces of slippage across these fields of art production.

Nothing is Forever marked the opening of the gallery’s new buildings by bringing together works made directly on the walls integrating art with the architecture of the exhibition spaces. It brought together wall paintings, drawings and text pieces by 20 British and international artists that will remain integrated into the architecture - each work was embedded in the fabric of the buildings when painted over at the end of the show. Fisher’s contribution to this important venue is therefore aesthetic and material, which matches the themes that run through his work.

Other artists included Fiona Banner, Robert Barry, Ernst Caramelle, Brian Chalkley, Sam Dargan, Dustin Ericksen, Penny McCarthy, Paul Morrison, Henna Nadeem, Dan Perjovschi, Sam Porritt, Yinka Shonibare MBE, David Shrigley, Gary Simmonds, Lily van der Stokker, Milly Thompson, Mark Titchner, Lawrence Weiner, Gary Woodley. See ppt:9-14 for reviews in The Independent (Laura McLean-Ferris 30/06/2010), the Guardian (Rebecca Geldard, August 2010), The London Evening Standard (Kieran Long 23/07/2010), Artforum Online (Lynne Gentle 3/07/2010). ‘Do it Yourself’ was also used in a fashion shoot which appeared on the cover of Tank, (volume 6 number 4 and on p152).