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Matthew Collings (born 1955) is a British art critic and broadcaster, who presents the Channel 4 TV programme on the Turner Prize. It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ...
The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ...
Life and career
He was trained at Byam Shaw School of Art, and still practises as an artist, although this has been overshadowed in the public eye by his work as a commentator. His paintings are made in collaboration with his wife, Emma Biggs, who is a mosaicist. The painting behind him on the cover photo of Blimey is one of his own works. An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...
He edited Artscribe 1983-7 with some success but was dismissed by the publisher after an argument. He was a producer and presenter on the BBC The Late Show 1989-95, then later wrote and presented the Channel 4 TV series This is Modern Art, which won him a Bafta. In the early 1990s he completed a Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College. Artscribe (1976 - 1992) titled Artscribe International from 1985 is a defunct British contemporary art magazine. ...
The Late Show (1989 to 1995) was an arts magazine programme broadcast on BBC2 weeknights at 10. ...
He is well known for his writing on art and the art world with a regular diary column in Modern Painters magazine, and particularly for his books, the seminal one being Blimey. This introduced the Young British Artists to a wider world. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991). ...
His popular, amusing and clear style with words belies a more serious intelligence. He was originally identified as a proponent of Britart, but as time has gone on, his sympathies have become ambiguous or even hostile to it. He wrote in the New Statesman [1]: The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ...
"A new popular audience is obsessed by contemporary art. But I think they are being sold something that isn't really there: an all-in package of spirituality, depth and profundity. I am afraid the official institutions of contemporary art are just lying about this stuff."
Books A sample of books by Matthew Collings: - "Blimey", 21 Publications, 1998
- "This Is Modern Art", Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000
- "Art Crazy Nation", Worldwide, 2001
See also - Other contemporary UK art critics
- David Lee
- Adrian Searle
- Louisa Buck
- Waldemar Januszczak
- Brian Sewell
- Sarah Kent
David Lee was born in 1953. ...
Adrian Searle is the chief art critic of The Guardian newspaper in Britain, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. ...
Louisa Buck is a British art critic and contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper. ...
Waldemar Januszczak (born January 12, 1954) is a British art critic, who writes for the Sunday Times and a film maker of television arts documentaries. ...
Brian Sewell (born 15 July 1931 in Kensington, London)[1] is an English art critic. ...
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