Mat Collishaw has been producing romantic, grand images for more than thirty years. The works have a nostalgic gleam and
beguiling baroque quality, which upon closer inspection reveals the decayed and depraved underbelly of contemporary society.
Drugs, homelessness, political sadism and sexual aberration are
recurring themes throughout his work. Epic traditional mosaics with twisted imagery
are shown alongside cinematic projects, revealing subject matter that questions
mortality and the strange protective embrace of the State. His work is mesmerising and cynical, heroic
and cruel.

For The House of Fairy
Tales portfolio, Collishaw has appropriately reproduced an early image from
his Fairies series, choosing a rare and exquisite photographic technique that uses platinum.
The image reveals fairies holding flowers mourning the death of ‘Cock
Robin’. On closer inspection, the fairies
are ordinary children depicted in a bewildering change of scale.

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