Elliot Collins
Sonder
16 October - 10 November 2012
16 October 2012 - 10 November 2012


sonder n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own--populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness--an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk

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Installation
Installation
Installation
Installation
Four corners
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on canvas board
each piece diameter 200mm
Four corners
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on canvas board
each piece diameter 200mm
Tate Britain / Tate Modern
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, rabbit skin glue on linen, gold leaf on board, found pizza base (framed), found oil paint (framed)
dimensions variable
Tate Britain / Tate Modern
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, rabbit skin glue on linen, gold leaf on board, found pizza base (framed), found oil paint (framed)
dimensions variable
Things that fall
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Things that fall
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Trying not to think
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Trying not to think
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Being together is better #5
2012
Elliot Collins
acrylic polymer and raw pigment on board
each circle 300 mm diameter
Being together is better #5
2012
Elliot Collins
acrylic polymer and raw pigment on board
each circle 300 mm diameter
Future music (we think about you often) #1
2012
Elliot Collins
vinyl on synthetic skin, tambourine
230 mm diameter
Future music (we think about you often) #1
2012
Elliot Collins
vinyl on synthetic skin, tambourine
230 mm diameter
Future music #1
2012
Elliot Collins
vinyl on natural skin, tambourine
280 mm diameter
Future music #1
2012
Elliot Collins
vinyl on natural skin, tambourine
280 mm diameter
The agency of light
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
The agency of light
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
A change of scenery
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
A change of scenery
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Gloria Victis
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Gloria Victis
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Sadness is a place
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Sadness is a place
2012
Elliot Collins
oil, gesso, resin and gold leaf on board
900 x 700 mm
Constellation (chance painting) #1
2012
Elliot Collins
gesso, paper, resin on board
600 mm diameter
Constellation (chance painting) #1
2012
Elliot Collins
gesso, paper, resin on board
600 mm diameter
Constellation (chance painting) #2
2012
Elliot Collins
gesso, paper, resin on board
600 mm diameter
Constellation (chance painting) #2
2012
Elliot Collins
gesso, paper, resin on board
600 mm diameter
Constellation (chance painting) #3
2012
Elliot Collins
gesso, paper, resin on board
600 mm diameter
Constellation (chance painting) #3
2012
Elliot Collins
gesso, paper, resin on board
600 mm diameter
Painting in France series
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
Painting in France series
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
Sans Tites
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 250 mm
Sans Tites
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 250 mm
Frabjous Day
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 850 mm
Frabjous Day
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 850 mm
Thunderstorms and Mark Twain
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 550 mm
Thunderstorms and Mark Twain
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 550 mm
Branche de Pivoines Blanches et Secateurs
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 1000 mm
Branche de Pivoines Blanches et Secateurs
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 1000 mm
Gare de l'est
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 400 mm
Gare de l'est
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 400 mm
Seven days in Nelson and Canterbury
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 1150 mm
Seven days in Nelson and Canterbury
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 1150 mm
The only Maori in Paris
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 700 mm
The only Maori in Paris
2011
Elliot Collins
oil on linen
200 x 700 mm