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Matthew Collings was born on 1955 in London, United Kingdom, is an Artist and writer. Discover Matthew Collings's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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1955

Matthew Collings (born 1955) is a British art critic, writer, broadcaster, and artist.

He is married to Emma Biggs, with whom he collaborates on art works.

Born in London in 1955, Collings studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, and Goldsmiths College, both in London.

1960

The paintings were from the 1960s series of Painter and Model and Déjeuner sur l’herbe reworkings.

According to the catalogue essay, written by Collings, the exhibition aimed to draw attention to Picasso's achievement as a manipulator of form rather than the popular myth of Picasso as a showman or lover or sensationalist genius.

Together Biggs and Collings create paintings based on intricate patterns.

They have exhibited their work in London and abroad.

1968

Collings called Lord Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of the UK, a “notorious hate-filled racist" after Sacks repeatedly condemned multiculturalism, repeatedly celebrated a violent annual march of illegal settlers against Palestinians in Jerusalem, and praised a book by Douglas Murray which suggested Enoch Powell didn’t go far enough in his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech (Murray writes that the speech might be thought by some today to be “understated”).

With his wife, Emma Biggs, Collings has curated many art exhibitions.

These include an exhibition of Picasso's late works at the HN Gallery in London.

1979

He began his career working at Artscribe first in the production department in 1979 and later taking over as editor, filling that role from 1983 to 1987, bringing international relevance to the magazine.

1987

In 1987 he received a Turner Prize commendation for his work on Artscribe.

1989

Collings later moved into television working as a producer and presenter on the BBC The Late Show from 1989 to 1995.

1990

In the early 1990s he brought Martin Kippenberger into the BBC studios to create an installation, and he interviewed Georg Herold while this Cologne-based conceptual artist painted a large canvas with beluga caviar.

He gave Jeff Koons his first sympathetic exposure on British TV, and Damien Hirst was also introduced for the first time to the UK TV audience by Collings.

He wrote and presented documentary films for the BBC on individual artists, such as Donald Judd, Georgia O'Keeffe and Willem de Kooning, as well as broader historical subjects such as Hitler's "Degenerate art" exhibition, art looted in the Second World War by Germany and Russia, Situationism, Spain's post-Franco art world and the rise of the Cologne art scene.

After leaving the BBC, Collings wrote 'Blimey!

From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst,' which humorously chronicled the rise of the Young British Art (YBA) movement.

1997

Published in 1997 by 21, a new company founded by David Bowie, among a group of others, 'Blimey!'was described by Artforum magazine as “…one of the best-selling contemporary-art books ever." (Kate Bush on the YBA Sensation, Artforum, 2004) The article went on to say that Collings "invented the perfect voice to complement YBA: He makes an impact without (crucially) ever appearing to try too hard." The following year, Collings wrote and presented the Channel 4 TV series This is Modern Art, which won him a Bafta (2000) among other awards.

Between 1997 and 2005, Collings presented the Channel 4 TV programme on the Turner Prize.

2003

Collings wrote and presented a Channel 4 series in 2003 about the "painterly" stream of Old Master painting, called Matt's Old Masters.

A book by the same title accompanied the series.

2004

Further Channel 4 series by Collings included Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice (2004) and The Me Generations: Self Portraits, (2005).

2007

In 2007 he wrote and presented the Channel 4 TV series This is Civilisation.

2009

In 2009 he appeared on the BBC2 programme "School of Saatchi" a reality TV show for newly trained UK artists.

2010

In October 2010, he wrote and presented a BBC2 series called Renaissance Revolution, in which he discussed three Renaissance paintings: Raphael's Madonna del Prato; Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights; and Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ.

2012

In the same year, Collings appeared in Frederick Wiseman's documentary, National Gallery composing and rehearsing a piece-to-camera on Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, for the documentary Turner's Thames, (2012), which Collings wrote and presented for BBC4.

2014

In 2014 he wrote and presented a 90-minute documentary for BBC4 on abstract art: The Rules of Abstraction considered early modernist beginnings by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, and others, as well as contemporary continuities, ranging from Fiona Rae to El Anatsui.

2015

Since 2015, he has been the regular art critic for the Evening Standard, replacing Brian Sewell, who died that year.

2019

In 2019 Collings was picked as Parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party for the South West Norfolk constituency, but was suspended by the party a day later.

2020

Collings’ ongoing series of drawings of an “alternative art history,” begun in 2020, has been a commercial success, with many thousands sold on Instagram.