Henry Coleman (b. 1974)
Henry Coleman (b. 1974)
Henry Coleman (b.1974, Harpenden, UK) previously studied at Goldsmiths College. Coleman’s work presses at the limits of the 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, spaces and images that we move through. Drawing down on the historical material of social and visual momentum to illustrate and 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 collision of place and image, history and information, sensation and knowledge to generate a disruptive and cohesive sculptural and conceptual body.
Scrape, an illuminated sculptural installation by Henry Coleman was displayed on the façade of the Royal Academy of Arts at 6 Burlington Gardens in Spring 2014.
Profile
Born: 1974 in Harpenden
RA Schools student from 2012 to 2015
Gender: Male
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Gallery of works
![Henry Coleman, The Greater Order]()
Henry Coleman, The Greater Order, 2015.
![Henry Coleman, The Greater Order]()
Henry Coleman, The Greater Order, 2015.
![Henry Coleman, The Greater Order]()
Henry Coleman, The Greater Order, 2015.
![Henry Coleman, The Greater Order]()
Henry Coleman, The Greater Order, 2015.
![Henry Coleman, Scrape]()
Henry Coleman, Scrape, 2014.
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Henry Coleman, Scrape, 2014.
![Reimagining Mayfair, 2014]()
Reimagining Mayfair, 2014
![Henry Coleman, Ornament, Work]()
Henry Coleman, Ornament, Work, 2014.
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Henry Coleman, Ornament, Work, 2014.
![Henry Coleman, Ornament, Work]()
Henry Coleman, Ornament, Work, 2014.
![Henry Coleman, Half]()
Henry Coleman, Half.
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Henry Coleman, Half.
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Scrape
Burlington Gardens installation, 2014
The architectural intervention, entitled Scrape, was inspired by the iconic signage from the front of the nearby French Railways House on Piccadilly, the former London headquarters of French state railways SNCF.
A series of distinctive triangular, back-lit letters spelling out the word F-R-A-N-C-E originally adorned this building as part of the 1960s decorative scheme by the influential modernist architects Ernö Goldfinger RA and Charlotte Perriand.
These letters were removed by developers and were then recreated by artist Henry Coleman specifically for this installation.
![Henry Coleman, Scrape]()
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