Photo taken on 22nd October 2015 in the Birmingham library during the talk by Mat Collishaw
on his both exhibitions
In camera and his work in the new art gallery in Walsall.
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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/arts/article1622085.ece
In a very dark place
We need more Mat Collishaw: his intense twilight beauty equals great art
Among the myriad mysteries of art, a particularly puzzling one is: why do we make so little of Mat Collishaw? Why hasn’t he had big shows at the Serpentine or the Hayward? Why do we never put him on Turner prize shortlists? Why does a whiff of failure rise up from his career — the elusive scent of never quite making it? Why, above all, has Tate Modern filled its Turbine Hall with the huge non-event that is Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Empty Lot, a portable allotment of planks and scaffolding that might, if we’re lucky, look mildly interesting in a couple of months, when it could have devoted some space to Collishaw? Answers on a postcard, please. First, though, hear me out on the subject.
On paper, Collishaw has always had everything going for him. As a leading member of the so-called YBAs, he exhibited in all the right shows. Charles Saatchi
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