Title: Brian ‘n’ Keef (top)
Size: 115x150cm
Title: The Light Gardener (bottom)
Size: 69x81cm
Justin Coombes
The artist’s latest series of works entitled; Urban Pastoral is based on allotments situated in and around London. Coombes takes a subject matter that is quintessentially English and presents it against the backdrop of the city at night.
Using either a 35mm mechanical slide projector or a digital video projector, he projects photographs onto nocturnal landscapes, capturing the juxtaposition of real and projected space with his long-exposures. The scenes appear to glow with an almost unnaturally vivid light that gives the work a mysterious and haunting quality
Artist Background
Justin Coombes graduated from an MA at Goldsmiths in 2002 and received the prestigious BOC Emerging Artist Award in 2005. His new series of photographs and light boxes will be on display at East End gallery, Paradise Row throughout September in his first solo show with the gallery.
Coombes’ work is concerned with romanticising the urban environment so that we experience it anew.
- Other Works by this Artist
- A Place for Everything / Magpie's Pile
- The Warden