Nathan Coley

Nathan Coley

Nathan Coley (born Glasgow, 1967, lives and works in Dundee) is a contemporary British installation artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007.

Coley makes installations based on architectural themes. One such is a scale model of the Manchester Marks and Spencer building which was damaged by an IRA bomb and subsequently demolished. His Show Home was originally installed in North Shields as part of Tyneside's Art on the Riverside public art programme. "[1] He made work about the Pan Am Flight 103 blown up over Lockerbie. This included the recreation of a witness box used in the trial of Libyans charged with planting the bomb.[1] Coley's Turner Prize nomination was for large cardboard sculptures of a synagogue, a mosque and a church, which he painted with stripes.[1]

See also

  • Turner Prize
  • British art
  • Art and Sacred Places for Coley's 2004 work 'Black Tent'

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c Reynolds, Nigel "Iraq protest camp shortlisted for Turner Prize" The Daily Telegraph online, May 10, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2007

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