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

  • L’Inferno di Dante Luna Storia Naturale. Milan: Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 8804601418. With notation by Walter Hutton.
  • Ponte City. Göttingen: Steidl; Walther Collection, 2014. ISBN 9783869307503. With Mikhael Subotzky, edited by Ivan Vladislavic.
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Le Bal, Paris,[8][9] Fotomuseum, Belgium in 2014 and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh in 2015.[10]

Colors magazine

ISSN 2227-2992 (Australia/New Zealand/UK Edition); ISSN 2227-2984 (Hong Kong/Taiwan/China Edition).

  • Colors 81: Transport - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2011.
  • Colors 82: Shit - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2011.
  • Colors 83: Happiness - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2012.
  • Colors 84: Apocalypse - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2012.
  • Colors 85: Going to Market - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2012.
  • Colors 86: Making the News - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2013.
  • Colors 87: Looking at Art - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2013.
  • Colors 88: Protest - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2013.
  • Colors 89: Moving House - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2014.
  • Colors 90: Football - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2014.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2010:
    • Recent Works, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, 2010 with Mikhael Subotzky.[11]
  • 2011:
    • Appropriated Landscapes, The Walther Collection in Neu Ulm, Germany.
    • Transport, Hong Miao Gallery, Shanghai, China.
  • 2012:
    • The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool.
    • Happiness and other survival techniques, Design Museum, London.[12]
    • DOC Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil. With Projeto Quixote and Unhate Foundation.
  • 2013:
  • 2014
    • Ponte City, Le Bal, Paris, January–April 2014. With Mikhael Subotzky.[9]
    • Ponte City, FOMU, Antwerp, June–November 2014. With Mikhael Subotzky.
    • Ponte City, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, December 2014–April 2015.[10]

References

  1. ↑ L’Espresso, 16 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Foam Magazine Ponte City Report(Summer 2011)
  3. 1 2 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. ↑ Steidl, Gottingen,Germany.
  6. 1 2 "Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015" Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, Photographers' Gallery London.
  7. ↑ Magazine of the week: COLORS 86 Magculture Blog (19 April 2013)
  8. ↑ Armon Azoulay, Ellie. ArtForum Review, ArtForum Magazine, New York.
  9. 1 2 "Ponte City" Archived 2015-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, Le Bal, Paris (January 2014).
  10. 1 2 "Ponte City", National Galleries Scotland (December 2014).
  11. ↑ Recent Works, Goodman Gallery Cape Town with Mikhael Subotzky 2010.
  12. ↑ Happiness & Other Survival Techniques, Domus, Italy, April 2012.
  13. ↑ A Different Kind of Order, International Center of Photography Triennial, New York, 2013.
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