Henry Coleman

Henry Coleman: UR-…

Private view: Thursday, 12 June. 6-9 pm.

Exhibition dates: 12 June - 5 July 2024.

Somers Gallery is pleased to present UR-… a sculptural re-play by London based artist Henry Coleman. Using elements of existing forms for new sculptural arrangements, this installation continues the artist’s investigation into porosity and (im)permeability of designed spaces, and architectures, and the interplay of image and structure that constitute them. An invitation behind a façade, the exhibition presents a broken view that reflects the floating, fractured and multiplied planes of modern experience. These sculptures are broken down into their constituent UR-parts; the ‘stuff’ of the sculptures goes again to express the same inquiry through different means.

Hertfordshire, England, 1974
Lives and works in London<br

Henry Coleman’s art works it’s way around the spaces of designed experience, bumping up against architecture, typography, signage and the decorative; reframing and making obvious the established edges of the aesthetic conditions that shape and reflect the societies and images that we move through

Drawing down on the historical material of social and visual momentum to illuminate contemporary processes, the work is expressed through disparate forms and channels; large scale sculptural intervention, interviews, objects and print; pulling disparate elements together in a meeting of place and image, history and information, sensation and knowledge to generate a disruptive and cohesive sculptural and conceptual body.

In 2016-17 Coleman co-curated Bloomberg SPACE’s Physical Information programme with Rupert Norfolk, a series of five exhibitions that explored how physical objects could generate alternative experiences in an increasingly abstract world, activate public imagination and orient social space. In 2020-21 he was a curator of public projects for the Brent Biennial ‘On the side of the furture’ which included major installations by Rasheed Araeen and Imran Qureshi amongst others. Artwork and projects have been published in Dezeen, Creative Review, BD Online and the Architects Journal and he is the recipient of Arts Collecting Society Prize, Royal Academy Schools Sculpture prize and an awarded shortlist for the Arts Foundation Fellowship, “Art in the Urban Space”.

Education

Postgraduate: Royal Academy Schools, London. 2012-2015
Ba Hons: Goldsmiths College. University of London. 1993-1996
Foundation: Wimbledon School of Art. 1992-1993.

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