Doug Fishbone: An outside artist's view on an Irish ghost estate
Doug Fishbone at the Crawford Art Gallery. Picture: Stuart Leech
From placing 30,000 bananas in London's Trafalgar Square years ago to portraying a Cork ghost estate at the Crawford Art Gallery, London-based American artist, Doug Fishbone, likes to get people talking. In the case of the bananas in 2004, Fishbone was drawing attention to the fragility of economics in South America that was based on perishable goods. He was living in Ecuador at the time.
In his first solo exhibition in Ireland, entitled Please Gamble Responsibly, Fishbone was commissioned by the Crawford to create work that would be apposite and provocative. From his research, he says he was "amazed to see how much the housing market in Ireland has seemed to return to the boom. Certainly, prices are back to quite alarming levels."
