Fiona Crisp

Fiona Crisp (born 1966 in Derbyshire) is an English photographer and installation artist. She is also Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University. was published to coincide with the tour and surveyed Crisp's work from the preceding decade. The monograph includes an essay by Professor Christopher Townsend of London University and an interview with Alessandro Vincentelli, Curator of Exhibitions and Research at BALTIC.

Crisp's current research centres on the idea of Negative Capability – a phrase first used by the poet John Keats to describe a desirable state of uncertainty and doubt. Keats’ idea is used by Crisp to pursue the photographic object as an unstable and deeply equivocal phenomenon as evidenced in her recent installation, Negative Capability: The Stourhead Cycle for Matt's Gallery, London. This exhibition also reflected Crisp's long-term engagement with the visual, political and philosophical ‘construction’ of a view – a position acknowledged by her inclusion in the 2013 exhibition, Looking at the View, at Tate Britain.

Her 2007 digital print, Norwegian series #3 is in the collection of the Tate Gallery.