TIFFANEY BISHOP
TIFFANEY BISHOP studied communications, media arts and photography and has an earlier background in marketing and event management.
I started working with young artists about 10 years ago and find them to be energetic and refreshing creative partners. I launched tbC in 2012. tbC is a youth driven/adult mentored art collective that promotes a new status for young artists. At tbC, young artists claim professional recognition via highly visible contemporary arts activity and the collaborative model attracts a broad and sustained youth membership and mentor engagement.
The artwork pictured here is part of a larger collaborative exhibition series. A fine 'mesh-like' layer of text (and accompanying imagery) present a colloquial (and visual) dialogue around the arts, community, collectivity and what it’s like to be young. Images are around 1m sq.
This artwork is also the focal point of a digital app called, The Art of Conversation - an app designed to engage wider audiences in such conversations. On scanning this work, with a free app on an apple device, you are prompted to engage in conversations. Conversations change as this interactive artwork adapts to the site it is presented in. An earlier iteration, using QR code technology, was selected for the 2013 (e)merge art award in Washington DC. Since then, tbC has collaborated with a digital designer in Taipei, Simon Braunstein, to bring the project into a more contemporary state - its own App Store app. We are still experimenting with its capabilities, its content, its reach. Each time we present the work we get new ideas, new directions, new conversations and new reasons to communicate with each other.
Download tbCs The Art of Conversation app from the App Store and try it out!
This work has been selected for the 2017 Melbourne Fringe Festival and Sydney Fringe Festival (the International Stencil Art Prize) and will feature in an exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs gallery in Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
