Mat Collishaw (Nottingham, 1966), lives and works in London. Graduating from Goldsmith's College in 1989, he became a key figure in an important generation of contemporary British artists known as the ‘Young British Artists’ or ‘YBA’s’ alongside artists including Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas. With a visual language that embraces diverse media; painting, photography, video and installation, Collishaw uses a combination of different media and technology to create his artworks.
Especially relevant is his participation in 1997 in the important exhibition "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi collection" at the Royal Academy in London. In that exhibition he presented "Bullet Hole"
(1988), a large-scale photographic work that showed a close-up of a bleeding wound. This iconic image today established Collishaw's penchant for the use of images that are both viscerally striking and strangely beautiful.
Especially relevant is his participation in 1997 in the important exhibition "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi collection" at the Royal Academy in London. In that exhibition he presented "Bullet Hole"
(1988), a large-scale photographic work that showed a close-up of a bleeding wound. This iconic image today established Collishaw's penchant for the use of images that are both viscerally striking and strangely beautiful.
