Mat Collishaw Artwork

Collishaw s work uses photography and video.
Mat collishaw artwork. Mat collishaw is a key figure in the important generation of british artists who emerged from goldsmith s college in the late 1980s. The nature of the beast runs until 30 june at new art gallery walsall this article was edited on 29 april 2013. Visitors travel back in time to 1839 when british scientist william henry fox talbot first presented his photographic prints to the public at king edward s school in birmingham. The experience is a fully immersive portal to the past.
Mat collishaw s vr artwork thresholds launches at photo london and will be on view at somerset house from may 18 june 11 2017. 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. At first glance it s unreadable like an abstract painting.
Mat collishaw 1966 nottingham uk is associated with the yba young british artist generation. Thresholds is an ongoing touring exhibition that restages the world s first major exhibition of photography. Mat collishaw is at arter istanbul from 2 may to 11 september. A key figure in.
This will be his first major exhibition in the city of his birth. He participated in freeze 1988 and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally. Young british artist yba mat collishaw mimics the hypnotic and glossy aesthetic o. Since graduating from goldsmith s college in the late 1980s the artist has established an international reputation.
Collishaw received his bfa from goldsmith london in 1989. Visitors can walk. He participated in freeze 1988 and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally. Mat collishaw is a key figure in the important generation of british artists who emerged from goldsmith s college in the late 1980s.
Find the latest shows biography and artworks for sale by mat collishaw. Bullethole is one large photo made up of 15 frames fragmented like the panes of a stained glass window. Bullet hole was originally exhibited in freeze the group show. Mat collishaw s artworks biography and articles.