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Visiting this weekend? The Textile Fair is taking place from 6 – 8 November

All visitors, including members, must pre-book their tickets.

If you’d like to visit the fair, book your tickets here, there’s an option to purchase for just the Fair, or a Fairs and Gallery ticket to get access to all Compton Verney has to offer.

If you don’t wish to visit the fair, you can purchase a general admission ticket (reduced to £0 for members when you log in), but please note the ground floor galleries are accessible to Fair ticket holders only.

 

 

James Coleman

15 March 2008 – 1 June 2008

About the
exhibition

Since the 1970s James Coleman has created a distinct and innovative body of work that reflects on the subjective nature of the image. His installations take the form of film, video and multiple slide projections, using synchronised audio narration. At the core of his work is an exploration of the physical and psychological encounter between spectator and projected image.

His imaginatively structured work employs theatrical and narrative devices to create multiple and interrelated associations, which are informed by memory and psychology but ultimately by the social and cultural conditioning of the viewer.

Coleman (born 1941, Ireland) remains one of the most powerful voices on the contemporary art scene. This is a rare opportunity to see his work in Britain following solo exhibitions in Paris (1996), Barcelona (1999), Munich (2002), Lisbon (2005) and Dublin (2006).