Early visitors to a dramatic, immersive work by Mat Collishaw have talked of it prompting emotional and cathartic responses – which is music to the ears of the artist. “That would be the ultimate reward,” he said. “If someone can take some sort of solace from the work then that really is amazing.”
Collishaw’s work features a blue iris burning before you, accompanied by a choral soundtrack. The iris is engulfed by flames but never consumed by them, which visitors may, the artist hopes, imagine is the moment before the death of Christ or a martyr.
