[citation needed] Collings began his career working at Artscribe first in the production department in 1979 and later taking over as editor, filling that role from 1983 to 1987, bringing international relevance to the magazine.
In the early 1990s, he brought Martin Kippenberger into the BBC studios to create an installation, and he interviewed Georg Herold while this Cologne-based conceptual artist painted a large canvas with beluga caviar.
From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst,' which humorously chronicled the rise of the Young British Art (YBA) movement.
The following year, Collings wrote and presented the Channel 4 TV series This is Modern Art, which won him a Bafta (2000) among other awards.
[2] In 2009, he appeared on the BBC2 programme "School of Saatchi"[citation needed] a reality TV show for newly trained UK artists.
Collings’ ongoing series of drawings of an “alternative art history,” begun in 2020, has been a commercial success, with many thousands sold on Instagram.
[4] Collings called Lord Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of the UK, a “notorious hate-filled racist" after Sacks repeatedly condemned multiculturalism, repeatedly celebrated a violent annual march of illegal settlers against Palestinians in Jerusalem, and praised a book by Douglas Murray which suggested Enoch Powell didn’t go far enough in his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech (Murray writes that the speech might be thought by some today to be “understated”).