Empire

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in 1977, Justin Coombes was brought up in Devon and is now based in London. In 2002 he gained an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London; prior to which he studied at Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and Plymouth College of Art & Design. Coombes has had two solo shows in London and has exhibited extensively in group shows, both in London and abroad. He won the BOC Emerging Artist Award in 2005.

Places

Subjects

allegory & symbolism, townscape/cityscape, night, tower block

Materials & Techniques

aluminium, photograph (as object name), lambda print

Artist

Justin Coombes (1977 - )

Title

Empire

Date

2005

Medium

Lambda print on aluminium

Dimensions

height: 83.50 cm, width: 101.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, March 2006

Inscription

none

GAC number

18066