{{Short description|1988 artwork by British artist Mat Collishaw}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{italic title}} {{refimprove|date=May 2025}} [[File:Collishaw bullet-hole.jpg|thumb|Mat Collishaw ''Bullet Hole'', 1988]]
'''''Bullet Hole''''' is the title of a 1988 artwork by [[United Kingdom|British]] artist [[Mat Collishaw]]. Despite the title, the work is a reproduction of an ice pick wound to the head, appropriated from a pathology manual and blown up over an interlocking grid of fifteen separate framed images that make up one single work. It first went on show in the exhibition [[Freeze (exhibition)|Freeze]], organized by [[Damien Hirst]].
The work has become synonymous with the perceived ethos of the [[Young British Artists]] art scene, in particular the reuse of imagery that is seemingly repulsive or shocking.
The photographs were described by [[Ian Jeffrey]], in a catalogue essay for the Freeze exhibition as a "freeze-frame" and hence prompted the title of that exhibition.<ref>Jessica Lack, "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jul/23/matcollishaw Artist of the week no 1: Mat Collishaw]," ''The Guardian'', July 23, 2008.</ref>
According to Collishaw, the artwork did not sell and “rotted in a skip” outside the Freeze exhibition in 1988.
==References== {{reflist}} {{Young British Artists}}
[[Category:British contemporary works of art]] [[Category:Young British Artists]]