Mat Collishaw valuation
British artist of photographs, lightboxes, zoetropes and virtual reality, and one of the Freeze generation.
Mat Collishaw (born 1966) was born in Nottingham and studied at Goldsmiths College in London.
What a work by Mat Collishaw is worth
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Bio
Mat Collishaw (born 1966) was born in Nottingham and studied at Goldsmiths College in London. He was one of the sixteen artists in Freeze, the 1988 exhibition Damien Hirst organised in London Docklands, where he showed Bullet Hole, a close-up of a head wound taken from a pathology textbook and mounted across fifteen lightboxes; it is now in the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart. He was included in Sensation at the Royal Academy in 1997. His work uses photography, film and the optical devices of the nineteenth century, including spinning sculptural zoetropes lit by strobes, to set beauty against cruelty, and Thresholds (2017) recreated in virtual reality Henry Fox Talbot's exhibition of photographs in Birmingham in 1839.
His works range from editioned photographs and prints to lightboxes, video installations and mechanical sculpture. For anything with moving parts, lights or screens, a buyer will want to know that it works, what equipment and software it needs, and whether the studio's installation instructions and certificate come with it. Editions should be identified by size, number and date, with the certificate or gallery invoice, and photographs checked for fading and damage to the surface or mount.
At a glance
- Born
- 1966, Nottingham
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