Mat Collishaw

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Mat Collishaw
Born 1966 (age 47–48)
Nottingham, England
Nationality English
Field Installation, Sculpture, Photography
Movement Contemporary Art, Young British Artists

Matthew "Mat" Collishaw (born 1966) is an artist based in London, and is one of the Young British Artists.

Career

Mat Collishaw Bullet Hole which was on display in the Freeze exhibition.

His work uses photography and video. His best known work is Bullet Hole 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.[1] Bullet Hole is now in the collection of the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia.[2]

He recently left Haunch of Venison gallery and now works with BlainSouthern in London. Collishaw is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery in Naples and Galerie Analix Forever in Geneva.[3]

Working practice

In 2012, to go alongside the AKA Peace Exhibition at the ICA[4] Art Below showcased selected works from the AKA Peace series on the London Underground including Collishaw's. "AKA Peace" originally conceived by photographer Bran Symondson and now curated by artist Jake Chapman, is an exhibition of new works made specially for The Peace One Day Project 2012, bringing together a group of Contemporary Artists, all of whom agreed to transform a decommissioned AK-47 assault rifle, refashioning into artworks.[5]

Influences

British pathologist, Austin Gresham, wrote a handbook, A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology, in 1975. Collishaw said it became "the Britart bible", as a source for explicit images of dead bodies for artwork.[6][7]

Personal life

Collishaw was raised in a Dawn Christadelphian family.[8]

Selected recent solo exhibitions

    • 2013 'La vie de château', Château des Adhémar - centre d'art contemporain, Montélimar, FR.
    • 2013 'THIS IS NOT AN EXIT', Blain|southern, London, UK.
    • 2012 'Crystal Gaze', Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, IT.
    • 2012 'The End of Innocence', Dilston Grove, CGP London Gallery, London, UK.
    • 2012 'Sordid Earth', Greenaway Art Gallery, Kent Town, AU.
    • 2012 'Vitacide', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City.
    • 2011 'Pearls of the Abyss', Analix Forever, Geneva, CH
    • 2010 'Last Meal on Death Row', Analix Forever, Geneva, CH.
    • 2010 'Magic Lantern', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
    • 2010 'Shooting Stars & The Garden of Unearthly Delights', Void Gallery, Derry, IE.
    • 2010 'Creation Condemned', Blain|Southern, London, UK.
    • 2010 'Retrospectre', British Film Institute, London, UK.
    • 2009 'Submission', Haunch of Venison, Berlin, DE.
    • 2009 'Hysteria', Freud Museum, London, UK.
    • 2008 'Mat Collishaw: Shooting Stars', Haunch of Venison, London, UK.
    • 2008 'Mat Collishaw Deliverance', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City.

Selected recent group exhibitions

    • 2012 'White Light/White Heat: Contemporary Artists & Glass', Wallace Collection, London UK.
    • 2012 'Britain Creates 2012: Fashion + Art Collusion', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
    • 2012 'Des Images, Des Histoires', Palais Jacques Coeur, Paris, FR.
    • 2012 'Out of Focus: Photography', Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
    • 2011 'Memories of the Future, The Olbricht Collection', La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR.
    • 2011 'Sordid Earth', Roundhouse, London, UK.
    • 2011 'Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities', Museum of Arts and Design, New York City.
    • 2011 'House of Beasts', Attingham Park, National Trust, UK.
    • 2010 'Locus Solus', Benaki Museum, Athens, GR.
    • 2010 'Extraordinary measures', Belsay Castle, Northumbria, UK.
    • 2010 'Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego', Founding Museum, London, UK.
    • 2009 'Distortion', Gervasuti Foundation, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT.
    • 2009 'Mythologies', Haunch of Venison, Zurich, CH.
    • 2007 'Les Fleurs du Mal', Arcos Sannio Contemporary Art Museum, Benevento, IT.
    • 2007 'Mat Collishaw, Anthony Goicolea', Haunch of Venison, Zurich, CH.
    • 2007 'The Tempest - Mat Collishaw and Paul Fryer', Gervasuti Foundation, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT.

References

  1. ↑ "Mat Collishaw - Contemporary Artists". Bullet Hole. Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 24 April 2009. 
  2. ↑ Gabriella Coslovich (15 January 2011). "A revolt in art". The Age. 
  3. ↑ (undated) "Tanya Bonakdar Gallery artists page; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (New York).". Retrieved 27 January 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Peace One Day’s 2012 Art Project". peaceoneday.org. 12 July 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2013. 
  5. ↑ "AKA BELOW". artbelow.org.uk. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2013. 
  6. ↑ Goslett, Miles. "Meet the grandfather of Britart", The Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2007. Retrieved on 12 September 2009.
  7. ↑ For more on the author of this book see: " Obituary: Professor Austin Gresham histopathologist," The Times, 8 September 2009.
  8. ↑ The Times 2 April 2008 Mat Collishaw: a shock-jock's deliverance by Rachel Campbell-Johnston

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