Matthew Collings
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.
Education
Born in London in 1955, Collings missed secondary education, receiving therapy instead at the Finchden Manor Community, a haven for disturbed teenage boys established by G.A.Lyward, in the Cinque Port coastal town of Tenterden, in the Ashford District of Kent in South East England, whose former residents included James Robertson Justice, Robert John Godfrey, Tom Robinson and Alexis Korner. Collings then studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, and Goldsmith's College, both in London.
Life and career
Collings has a regular monthly column in the art magazine ArtReview ("Great Critics and Their Ideas"), in which he "interviews" historical figures whose influence on art has been decisive. In one of these Søren Kierkegaard says of today's art enthusiasts, "What they're not baffled about, because to them they are as natural as breathing, are the morally indefensible moves that have to be made all the time in order to keep something as trivial as the artworld going."
