Matthew Corbin Bishop: "The Making of the Modern World"

Rose Issa Projects
269 Kensington High Street, London W8 6NA
20 November–19 December 2009
12-6 pm Tuesday-Saturday

“The Making of the Modern World”, Matthew Corbin Bishop’s first solo show in London, is a set of more than
60 paintings of stamps from countries in the European Empires, from their height in 1910 to their disbandment in the 1970s. It also includes a series of paintings of stamps of the Ottoman Empire and antique maps of
the "Greater Middle East’.

Since childhood, Bishop has been fascinated by maps and stamps. Working from history books, national archives and philatelic collections, he creates paintings that comment on the relationships between nations during the European Colonial era. Bishop’s technique is to enlarge the original stamp to many times its size and to then use ink transfer, oil paint and beeswax to develop the image, transporting the stamp from its colonial past to the modern world.

Matthew Corbin Bishop was born in 1984 and received a First in Fine Arts from Bath Spa University.

This exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. To browse through the catalogue click here.