About

A woman with a towel wrapped around her head is applying a facial mask and looking into a mirror in a bathroom.

Dylan Bhatt (b. 2004) is a mixed-media artist based on the south coast of England. His practice centres on the deconstruction of the human body through collage, primarily using imagery sourced from physical media such as magazines. Through a process of photographic montage, Bhatt reimagines how collage can function, combining fragments of bodies taken from contexts where they were originally presented as highly desirable and reconstructing them into grotesque, monstrous figures. By displacing and recombining these idealised body parts, his work interrogates beauty standards, consumer imagery, and the manipulation of the human form within visual culture. Developed during his time at Arts University Bournemouth.

His work has been featured in:

LensCulture Portrait Awards (2021, 2022, 2026).

Life Framer black & white (2025)

Royal Photographic society open call (2025)

Haus_a rest, the fragmented body (issue 70)

Lens Culture critics choice awards (2026)

Independent photo (colour photo award)(2026)

Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait prize (2026)

Fujifilm House of photography  (2026)

Exhibitions:

AUB Foundation Photography Show(2023)

BAD Space, Bournemouth(2025)

Auger Collective Exhibition Space, Bournemouth(2026)

AUB Summer Show(2026)

AUB Graduate Photography Show, Copeland Gallery, London (2026)