Nathan Coley, ‘I Don’t Have Another Land’, 2022
Found graffiti is the basis for Coley’s statement of displacement, part of this year’s free display in The Regent’s Park
Found graffiti is the basis for Coley’s statement of displacement, part of this year’s free display in The Regent’s Park
Nathan Coley, I Dont Have Another Land, 2022
Lightbulbs, aluminium, scaffolding. Presented by The Page Gallery
About the Work
Nathan Coley’s text works are created using existing phrases that come from overheard conversations, song lyrics, news reports, books and other found texts. ‘I Dont Have Another Land’ was a piece of graffiti he found on a wall in Jerusalem in the early 2000s. The phrases used in Coley’s text work take on new meaning in each place they’re exhibited.
Coley’s illuminated text work has been exhibited on a wall of Eastbourne Library, UK, throughout the duration of the Turner Prize 2023 and in front of Tate Modern. In 2007 Coley was nominated for the Turner Prize, and his work is held in private and public collections internationally.
About the Artist
Nathan Coley (b.1967, Glasgow; lives and works in Glasgow, UK) is interested in the idea of ‘public’ space, and his practice explores the ways in which architecture becomes invested – and reinvested – with meaning.
He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2007. Recent and important solo exhibitions include ‘Tentative Words Change Everything’, Charleston Trust and Sussex Modern (2022); ‘From Here’, Mann Island, Liverpool (2020); ‘A Place Beyond Belief’, Auckland Art Gallery (2019); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2017); Parafin, London (2019 and 2017); New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury (2016); House Festival, Brighton (2015); Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (2013); Kunstverein Freiburg (2013); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2012); ACCA, Melbourne (2011); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2004); Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon (2001); and the Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster (2000).
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Main image: Nathan Coley, I DONT HAVE ANOTHER LAND, 2022. Illuminated text on scaffolding, 5.3 x 5.3 x 2.5m. Installation, Charleston, Firle. ©studioNathanColey
