He participated in freeze 1988 and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally.
Mat collishaw zoetrope.
Collishaw took the original image from a pathology textbook that actually showed a wound caused by an ice pick.
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.
Bullet hole was originally exhibited in freeze the group show.
Mat collishaw is a key figure in the important generation of british artists who emerged from goldsmith s college in the late 1980s.
Collishaw s work uses photography and video.
Mat collishaw s room sized zoetrope offers a dazzling new spin on art s history.
Mat collishaw blends 19th century ideas with 21st century methods.