Statement

In his artistic practice Christopher Collier seeks to work through an assorted range of media but underpinning the variety of pieces that he produces is an essentially unified approach. Working through site-specific installation, photography, sound and other media he attempts to adopt a diverse and contemporary approach to the history, traditions and psychological geography of specific locations. He deals with these concepts and the way in which they relate to the contemporary situations, frequently in marginalised and rural contexts. Christopher seeks to utilise artistic practice as a vehicle for the re-engagement with heritage: a reinterpretation of this subject matter through a contemporary context and yet also an act of preservation. He seeks, through contemporary analysis, to breathe new creative life into many of the traditions that he addresses in order to shield them against extinction beneath the casual apathy of modern mass culture. He often seeks to subvert the very language and iconography of this mass culture into the actual physical and theoretical tool of preservation itself. His work frequently adopts the position that the artist’s primary role must be to foster mistrust in reality, seeking to make work that can cut through mundane experience in order to captivate and momentarily jar the viewer into a fresh assessment of their situation.

www.christophercollier.co.uk