Lecture date: 2009-03-13
Photographer, sculptor and filmmaker, Matt Collishaw studied at Goldsmith’s College, London. Much of his work contains historical and art-historical references to the interaction between nature and culture. Often the images are appropriated and digitally altered, the underlying theme being the relationship between representation and reality.
Described as ‘a marvel’, Collishaw’s solo show at Haunch of Venison in 2008 included an animated video of Arnold Böcklin’s painting ‘Island of the Dead’; ‘Shooting Stars’, which projected images of children onto the walls of a huge room in a series of fleeting flashes; and ‘Throbbing Gristle’, a large mesmerising sculpture with human and mythological figures, conjuring up a fearful yet compulsive scene of Chapmanesque excess.
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