Patrick Waterhouse Explained

Patrick Waterhouse (born 13 August 1981) is a British artist. His work involves photography, drawing and graphic design. He has published books of his work and been exhibited internationally. Since 2011 he has been editor-in-chief of Colors magazine. In the same year he won the Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles for Ponte City, a collaboration with Mikhael Subotzky.

Life and work

Waterhouse graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2001. After working in London for some years he began a residency at Fabrica research centre in Italy. While at Fabrica he created a fully illustrated version of Dante's Inferno[1] with notation by Walter Hutton, that was published by Mondadori.

In 2007 he and Mikhael Subotzky began a 6 year collaboration photographing and documenting Ponte City Apartments,[2] a 54 story building in Johannesburg, during its failed development and the subsequent aftermath. It won the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles In 2011.[3] Their book Ponte City (2014),[4] published by Steidl,[5] won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015.[6]

In 2011 Waterhouse became Editor in Chief of Colors magazine. During this time he created a new editorial direction for the publication, the Colors Survival Guides.[7]

Publications

Colors magazine

(Australia/New Zealand/UK Edition); (Hong Kong/Taiwan/China Edition).

Awards

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. http://espresso.repubblica.it/foto/2010/09/16/galleria/come-ti-reinterpreto-dante-1.72261#3 L’Espresso
  2. Foam Magazine Ponte City Report(Summer 2011)
  3. O'Hagan, Sean (11 July 2011) "Tower blocks and tomes dominate the Rencontres d'Arles", The Guardian
  4. Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn (2014) on Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, Aperture.
  5. https://steidl.de/Books/Ponte-City-0208253249.html Steidl
  6. http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/deutsche-b-rse-prize-2015 "Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015"
  7. http://magculture.com/blog/magazine-of-the-week-colors-86 Magazine of the week: COLORS 86
  8. Armon Azoulay, Ellie. ArtForum Review, ArtForum Magazine, New York.
  9. http://www.le-bal.fr/fr/mh/les-expositions/ponte-city "Ponte City"
  10. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-coming-soon/ponte-city "Ponte City"
  11. http://www.goodman-gallery.com/exhibitions/159 Recent Works
  12. http://www.domusweb.it/it/notizie/2012/04/09/fabrica-a-londra.html Happiness & Other Survival Techniques
  13. http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/a-different-kind-of-order-the-icp-triennial A Different Kind of Order