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Born in Nottingham, England in 1966, Mat Collishaw studied at Goldsmiths College of Art from 1986 to 1989, along with a number of other prominent international British artists. He has participated ...
Born in Nottingham, England in 1966, Mat Collishaw studied at Goldsmiths College of Art from 1986 to 1989, along with a number of other prominent international British artists. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Freeze in 1988, and Modern Medicine in 1990, and has had many solo exhibitions in the UK and internationally.
His work appears in important public collections including Tate, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris. He is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York and Haunch of Venison, Zurich. Mat Collishaw lives and works in London.
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July 6, 2016
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
6 July – 24 August 2016More information on our blog.
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June 12, 2016
Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair
Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, Sunday 12th June from 12–6pm
Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 6QLMore information on our blog.
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June 2, 2016
Artists with Liberty: Save Our Human Rights Act
Paul Stolper Gallery
Thursday 2 June – Saturday 4 June 2016More information on our blog.
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May 21, 2016
I Prefer Life
Weserburg Museum of Modern Art
Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany21 May 2016 – 26 February 2017
More information on our blog.
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April 23, 2016
Folly!
Folly! at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden
Heelis, Kemble Drive, Swindon SN2 2NA
April 23–October 30th 2016More information on our blog.
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September 25, 2015
At The New Art Gallery Walsall
25 September 2015 to 10 January 2016
More information on our blog.
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September 18, 2015
In Camera
18 September 2015 – 10 January 2016
The Gallery, Library of BirminghamMore information on our blog .
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August 30, 2015
The Art Car Boot Fair | Margate Edition
The Art Car Boot Fair | Margate Edition, Sunday 30th of August, 12-4pm at Turner Contemporary.
More information on our blog.
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June 27, 2015
In Search of the Miraculous
Newlyn Art Gallery
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June 26, 2015
Aldeburgh Festival, 2015
For the series, Collishaw restated a number of - often intriguing - last suppers and arranged them in the style of 17th century Vanitas paintings, a manner traditionally used to reflect on the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. Whilst aesthetically pleasing in the most classical sense, these photographs reveal a shocking confrontation with the imminence of death, and give insight into the desires and fears of the soon to be executed. Humble and mundane foods like cheeseburgers or ice cream take on a new poignancy, as the pictures become surrogate portraits of the prisoners. The multi-layered, yet subtle way in which the message is conveyed is characteristic for Collishaw’s oeuvre.
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April 30, 2015
NGORONGORO
Exhibition opening: Thursday 30 April 2015; 2 pm – 12 midnight
Opening hours: Friday 1 May, Saturday 2 May, Sunday 3 May 2015; 10 am – 12 midnightMore information on our blog.
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February 28, 2015
Rack’em Up: a unique exhibition about the Young British Artists
Until 27th March 2015.
Shapero Modern, London
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January 13, 2014
‘Stations of the Cross’
Until 17th April 2014
St. Marylebone Parish Church Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LTThis Lent, Art Below and the Missing Tom Fund return with ‘Stations of the Cross’ an exhibition of 14 artists’ representations of the Passion of Christ. Artists include Mat Collishaw, Paul Fryer, Polly Morgan, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz and more. Based at London’s St. Marylebone Parish Church, the exhibition will run for 40 days to coincide with Lent. The exhibition will be open to the public whilst the works are also intended for prayer and meditation within the parish congregation.
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December 6, 2013
CHARITY BOOK: The Artist’s Colouring Book of ABC’s
A number of contemporary artists have collaborated on a charity project to create a children’s alphabetical colouring-in book, titled The Artists’ Colouring Book of ABC.
The project was created by Charlotte Colbert (of Humpty Dumpty Publishing) and the people behind Alteria Art. The funds raised will go to London based Kids Company Charity. The charity was founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh in 1996, supporting vulnerable inner-city children.
Read more on our blog.
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September 14, 2013
Preternaturalia, Verona
7th June – 14th September
Mat Collishaw is back at the FaMa Gallery with a solo show entitled PRETERNATURAL. The exhibition presents an important corpus composed of some of the artist’s most recent works as well as the Burning Butterflies series.
Read more on our blog.
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August 10, 2013
Collishaw’s Last Meal on Death Row in Florida
The Bass Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition by London-based artist Mat Collishaw. An artist whose wide-ranging practice includes sculpture, photography, and new media, Collishaw explores dark and subversive subject matter, often dealing with issues that are morally and politically charged. In his photographic series Last Meal on Death Row, Texas, Collishaw utilizes the style Baroque still life painting to portray the final meals requested by inmates on death row. In a fitting juxtaposition, the emotional and psychological gravity of each last meal portrayal resonates with the tradition of still life painting, a genre rife with overtones of mortality, isolation, and decadence. The fact that Collishaw uses inmates from the state of Texas also adds to the political overtones of his work, as Texas has had the highest number of executions since 1976, more than any other state. Interestingly, the act of fulfilling inmates’ requests for final meals in Texas ended in September 2011 after a state legislator’s outcry against the excessiveness of recent meals.See Mat Collishaw’s Last Meal on Death Row with Other Criteria here.
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March 13, 2013
IN CONVERSATION: Mat Collishaw and Sue Hubbard
To co-incide with the Blain Southern exhibition THIS IS NOT AN EXIT by Mat Collishaw, the artist will be in conversation with Sue Hubbard on 13th March at 6.30pm.
To reserve a space at this event, email rsvp@blainsouthern.com.
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October 10, 2012
Plus Art Projects
10th October – 10th November
Mayor’s Parlour, 1st Floor, 153-159 Bow House, London E3 2SE
Artists include Mat Collishaw, Adam Dix, Tracey Emin, Mustafa Hulusi & Sarah Lucas.
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April 5, 2012
LAUNCH: Other Criteria launches new work by Mat Collishaw
Please join Other Criteria to launch new work by Mat Collishaw, Francesca Lowe and Wolfe von Lenkiewicz:
Thursday 5th April, 6-8pm
Other Criteria
36 New Bond Street
London, W1S 2RP
The exhibition will continue until 17/05/12.
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January 12, 2012
Vitacide at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Until 18th February 2012
Collishaw creates sculpture, installation and photo-based works that confront issues of moral ambiguity with formally stunning and alluring imagery, and often re-contextualize the impact of more disturbing or sinister subject matter. Mining the fertile ground between seduction and repulsion, reality and artifice, the works captivate the viewer with their compelling incorporation of beauty and horror in equal measure.
For more information, click here.
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October 21, 2011
Mat Collishaw edition at New Bond Street
Mat Collishaw's limited edition book, featuring a DVD is currently in store at Other Criteria's New Bond Street store. See images of the work, alongside other limited edition books here or visit our New Bond Street store until the end of October.
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August 8, 2011
Mat Collishaw's Sordid Earth at the Roundhouse
See Mat Collishaw's Sordid Earth at the Roundhouse on Wednesday 24th August 8-9.30pm.
For more info, visit our blog.
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May 13, 2011
TALK: Mat Collishaw and Sue Hubbard at the ICA
Feed your mind with free lunchtime talks for the culturally curious. Join the ICA for a series of lively lunch hour events with key figures from London’s contemporary arts scene. Bring your lunch, sit back and do something different with your lunch break.
Culture Now: Mat Collishaw and Sue Hubbard
1.15pm Friday 13th May
Free, booking required
Mat Collishaw joins the ICA for this special lunch time talk with writer Sue Hubbard to discuss the changing shape and new directions of culture in the 21st century.
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February 26, 2010
Mat Collishaw: Retrospectre
Check out Mat Collishaw’s installation Retrospectre at the BFI from 26th February 2010. Created to celebrate the film director and artist Sergei Paradjanov (1924 – 1990), Collishaw’s work has a mixture of antique items and contemporary forms.
For more information, images and official press release, visit our blog.
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January 27, 2010
The Foundling Museum
27th January - 9th May 2010 The Foundling Museum, London
This exhibition brings together three remarkable artists for the first time: Paula Rego, Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw. Now exhibiting together in the unique and intimate surroundings of the Foundling Museum, the artists have engaged in a dramatic visual dialogue relating to the story and themes of the Museum, which memorialises Britain’s first home for abandoned children.
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January 23, 2010
EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display
Mat Collishaw will join a huge number of artists at Courtauld Institute of Art in a huge group show from East Wing Nine titled Exhibitionism: The Art of Display.
Open to the public first weekend of each month from 23 January 2010 to July 2011, admission is free and a fully illustrated catalogue will be available.
For the press release and full list of artists go to the Courtauld Institute of Art website.
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December 19, 2009
Exhibition at Haunch of Venison, Berlin
Mat Collishaw's show 'Submission' will be at Haunch of Vension from 12th September until 19th December 2009.
For more information go to the Haunch of Venison website.
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Video: Mat Collishaw 'Deliverance'
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Video: Mat Collishaw at Freud Museum, London
Courtesy and Copyright TATE shots
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Video: The Foundling Museum, London
Tales of innocence and experience: Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling MuseumCourtesy The Guardian
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The Independent - 25th February 2010
To read Michael Glover's review of Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego: At the Foundling, click here.
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The Observer - 2nd May 2010
To read Laura Cumming's review of Belsay Hall's Extraordinary Measures exhibition, click here.
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Punk Flowers, 2004, digital (Lambda) print, 68 x 94 cm
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Leda and the Swan, 2006, marble, one way mirror, DVD projection, 200 x 200 x 42 cm
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Remus, 2007, photograph on aluminium in perspex, 200 cm x 130 cm
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Ultraviolet Garden (IV), 2008, lightbox with UV tubes, 41 x 51 x 10 cm
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Throbbing Gristle, 2008, steel, aluminium, plaster, resin, stroboscope, diameter 200 cm
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