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Justin Coombes

Place of birth Devon, UK
Country of residence United Kingdom

Justin Coombes makes colour photographs by projecting images onto buildings and interiors at night with a small slide-projector. In real time, the naked eye can hardly discern an image, but Coombes photographs these scenes using long exposures.

The resulting luscious, colour-saturated images undermine expected readings of ‘realist’ photography. The projections veer from being pin-sharp and mirage-like to ghostly and ethereal, but always have a strange relationship to the scene in which they appear.

Coombes is influenced by Surrealist experiments in photography, as well as the work of contemporary artists such as Shimon Attie, Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall and Krystof Wodiczko.


Solo exhibitions:
Sept 07 Urban Pastoral, Paradise Row, London
July - Sept 06 Selected Work, BOC Headquarters, Windlesham, Surrey
Nov 05 Hoping To Catch Your Eye, (formerly titled Bacchanalia), Fosterart, London
Nov 03 Melancholeric, Space Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions:
Feb 07 Welcome to Paradise, Nuke Gallery, Paris
Oct-Nov 06 Vanishing Point, Madder Rose, London
Oct 06 The End of Civilisation, Paradise Row/t1+2 artspace, Zoo Art Fair, London
Aug 06 The Living Is Easy, Flowers East, London
April 06 Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester
April 06 Water, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Sep - Dec 05 BOC Emerging Artist Award, BOC Headquarters, Windlesham, Surrey
Jan 03 Mutiny, The Barge House, OXO Tower, London
Oct 02 Seeing is Believing, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
Aug 02 London Biennale Live, 291 Gallery, London
Aug 02 Fame and Promise, 14 Wharf Road, London
July 02 CMYK, Menier Gallery, London
Jan 01 360 Degrees, Camden Roundhouse, London
June 00 How we Built the World, Hanover Galleries, Liverpool
June 99 Ruskin 99, Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford
May 98 Four Artists, Museum of Oxford
Nov 97 Pembroke College, Oxford

Exhibitions Justin Coombers: Urban Pastoral, 07.Sep - 30.Sep.07, Paradise Row, Bacchanalia, 03.Dec - 13.Dec.05, Contemporary Art Projects, Fosterart Summer Exhibition 2005, 06.Jul - 10.Sep.05, Contemporary Art Projects

Events Deborah House Open Studios (Xmas Special), 01.Dec.07, 12-8 p.m., Deborah House Studio Art Walk, 03.Nov.07, 1pm

Links London on Loan


www.justincoombes.com

 

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