Mat Collishaw’s Last Meal on Death Row, Texas Is a Powerful Meditation on Mortality
2 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Mat Collishaw’s Last Meal on Death Row, Texas transforms final meals into haunting contemporary vanitas works
Tag: Vanitas
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
7 July 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
PAul’s ART STUFF on a train # 56: ’Skull Surprise’
20 May 2014 • Paul Carey-Kent
The skull has a long tradition as the vanitas in still life meditations on mortality, but in Hirstian times I’ve tended to feel there are a few too many around.
Hugo Wilson and Rorschach’s Seemingly Organised Chaos
29 October 2010 • Mark Westall
Hugo Wilson’s work confronts organisational systems that attempt to insulate from an alternative of “chaos”. Fascinated by “seemingly organised chaos”… Read More
This is not a Triptych: Reece Jones at Absolut Artists’ Salon
26 October 2010 • Mark Westall
Image:Reece Jones. Habbakuk. 2010. charcoal on paper with polymer varnish in three frames. 140 x 420cm on wall. Courtesy All… Read More