Matthew Krishanu

Matthew Krishanu's paintings explore topics including childhood, race, religion, art history, family, grief and love.  His subjects - frequently Brown people, especially children - are realised with a shallow pictorial depth, delicate washes of colour, and with a sense of interior life.  Through this, Krishanu questions the positions of his painterly subjects and depictions of landscapes in relation to the art historical canon.  Krishanu's practice is heavily informed by his early childhood spent in Dhaka where his parents moved in order to work for the Church of Bagladesh.  Krishanu was born in Bradford in 1980 and is based in London.  This, his first monograph, presents three key bodies of work  produced over the course of the past sixteen years.

Featuring two new essays by Mark Rappolt and Dr Dorothy Price and an interview with Ben Luke.