Mat Collishaw

A tropical landscape poisoned by diseased and malicious looking flowers, Sordid Earth intends to exploit our neurotic appetite for the depiction of a catastrophe-ravaged earth. Drawing on his earlier series Infectious Flowers, the work is influenced by the paintings of John Martin and Martin Johnson Heade, who embellished their imagery with strange and apocalyptic visions that draw on our pathological attraction to spectacles of fear.

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