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

• L’Inferno di Dante Luna Storia Naturale. Milan: Mondadori, 2007. . With notation by Walter Hutton.
• Ponte City. Göttingen: Steidl; Walther Collection, 2014. . 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

(Australia/New Zealand/UK Edition); (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

• 2011: Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d'Arles, with Mikhael Subotzky for Ponte City.
• 2015: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

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:
  • A Different Kind of Order, International Center of Photography Triennial, New York.^[13]
  • My Jo'burg, La Maison Rouge, France.
  • L'inferno, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Cassino (CAMUSAC), Italy.
• 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]

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