Folkestone Triennial

Nathan Coley

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Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens. Photograph © Thierry Bal


Title: Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens.
Location: The Old Post Office, 48 Tontine Street

British seaside towns are often associated with retirement and the idea of a “last resort”. The melancholy of these locations is touched upon by Nathan Coley’s illuminated text sculpture, Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens, seen against the sky in Tontine Street. While formally suggesting the expectation of excitement, the work is redolent of seaside towns’ sense of ennui. At once elegant and tacky, the use of white electric lightbulbs evokes 1970s disco glamour as well as fairground aesthetics.

About Nathan

Nathan Coley

Photo: Jane Barlow

Born Glasgow, 1967. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Nathan Coley’s practice is based on an interest in public space, and explores how architecture comes to be invested, and reinvested, with meaning. Coley works in a diverse range of media including public and gallery-based sculpture, photography, drawing and video.

Recent solo exhibitions include

Haunch of Venison Gallery - Berlin 2008
Doggerfisher Gallery – Edinburgh 2007
We Must Cultivate Our Garden, Public Art Project – Edinburgh 2007
There Will Be No Miracles Here, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute – Scotland 2006
Gathering of Strangers, ICA – Nottingham 2006
Haunch of Venison Gallery - Berlin 2008

Recent group exhibitions include

Breaking Steps, Museum of Contemporary Art – Belgrade 2007
British Art Show 6 – Newcastle (touring) 2005/06
Solitude, Upstairs – Berlin 2006
A Cidade Interpretada – Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2006

Coley has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2007 and was awarded the Artist Award from the Scottish Arts Council in 2003 and 1996.

See Nathan Coley's work at the Haunch of Venison website and the Doggerfisher Gallery website




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