Gerard Collins: Fifty Years of Painting

By Mary Blatherwick and Robert Barriault

The art of Gerard Collins resists categorisation. Over a 50-year career, Collins's conceptual imagination and dizzying array of influences has produced a body of work as eclectic as it is stimulating. His oeuvre, ranging from still lifes to landscapes, from realism to neo-conceptualism, remains undeniably embedded in Saint John, while partaking in -- and pushing against -- national and international conversations about art and theory.

Featuring over 75 reproductions of Collins's work, including examples from his famous Women in Hats, 100 Portraits, and Harlequin series, Gerard Collins: Fifty Years of Painting is the first book to encompass Collins's entire career, from his early training at St. Martin's School of Art and under the " NSCAD school," to his return to Saint John and pandemic-era experiments with online pop-up galleries. Robert Barriault, a contemporary of Collins at NSCAD, develops a fresh critical methodology to analyze Collins's enigmatic vocabulary, drawing connections and identifying distinctive features of Collins's massive body of work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773103075
• ISBN13: 9781773103075
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.9"