Mat collishaw born in 1966 received his bfa from goldsmith college london in 1989 and began his career exhibiting the acclaimed work bullet hole alongside his goldsmiths contemporaries at the legendary show freeze in 1988 and at modern medicine in 1990.
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Bullet hole was originally exhibited in freeze the group show.
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Collishaw s work uses photography and video.
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Bullethole is one large photo made up of 15 frames fragmented like the panes of a stained glass window.
At first glance it s unreadable like an abstract painting.
Mat collishaw s bleak but intimate take on the still life pays tribute to the genre of vanitas with a dark humour.
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.
At first glance it s unreadable like an abstract painting.
Bullethole is one large photo made up of 15 frames fragmented like the panes of a stained glass window.
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Collishaw took the original image from a pathology textbook that actually showed a wound caused by an ice pick.
Capturing the chosen last meal of death row inmates before their execution collishaw takes advantage of the capacity of the still life to render an.