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Article: Rules of the game: ... Gerard Collins's work ethic.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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Gerard Collins's Work Ethic series is the latest example in a practice of rules-based painting that he has pursued since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design fifteen years ago. In his exhibition statement for the show, Collins was typically direct, stating that the work, far from being inspired, was based on a formula: time = money.
The trope of the artist as holy fool is persistent. In popular mythology the painter has long been associated with cliches of genius: rebellion against societal norms, visionary states and brushes with madness. Such artist-archetypes are a principle if indirect subject of work recently exhibited by Saint-John ...