"For Shae Bishop, combining the two offers a way to tether the enduring and universal with the intimate and personal. The Richmond-based artist has spent more than a decade creating innumerable ceramic tiles that he stitches together into bandanas, suits, and other garments. "By merging the materials and fitting them to my body, I was seeking to merge the personal with the historical, to locate myself and my individual narrative within the larger story of human culture," he tells Colossal."
"Bishop's garments have evolved in complexity and embellishment during the last 14 years, as he gravitates toward art historical narratives and the self-mythologizing associated with cowboy culture. Pieces like "Waistcoat of Earthly Delights" reference Hieronymus Bosch's famous triptych and its alternative realities. Long interested in the human-nature relationship, Bishop draws on Bosch's biblical retelling as a way to "reimagine our fraught interactions with strange and misunderstood creatures like giant salamanders and venomous snakes," as he adorns a vest with a pair of white serpents and vivid flowers."
Shae Bishop combines ceramic tiles and textile construction to create wearable garments such as bandanas, suits, and vests. He stitches innumerable ceramic tiles into clothing to merge personal identity with broader cultural and historical narratives. Over the last fourteen years his work has grown more elaborate, drawing on art historical references and cowboy self-mythologizing. Specific pieces reference Hieronymus Bosch and biblical imagery to explore human-nature relationships. Snakes appear frequently as motifs and performance partners, recast as heroic, iconographic, and ecological figures rather than objects of fear.
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