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Mat Collishaw
English artist
Matthew "Mat" CollishawHon. FRPS (born 6 January 1966[1]) is a contemporary British artist based in London.
Mat collishaw biography of william
Work
Collishaw's work uses photography and video. With an early foundation at Goldsmiths College, Collishaw formed part of the legendary movement of Young British Artists (YBA's).
He was one of 16 young artists who participated in the seminal Freeze exhibition organized by Damien Hirst in 1988, that launched the YBA, as well as the provocative Sensation show of 1997. His best known work is Bullet Hole (1988), which is a closeup photo of what appears to be a bullet hole wound in the scalp of a person's head, mounted on 15 light boxes.
Collishaw took the original image from a pathology textbook that actually showed a wound caused by an ice pick.[2]Bullet Hole was first exhibited in Freeze and is now in the collection of the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia.[3]
Throughout his 30-y