Nathan Coley is a contemporary British

United Kingdom

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 installation art

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

ist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize

Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...

 in 2007.

Coley makes installations based on architectural themes. One such is a scale model of the Manchester Marks and Spencer building which was damaged by an IRA

Provisional Irish Republican Army

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 bomb and subsequently demolished. His Show Home was originally installed in North Shields

North Shields

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 as part of Tyneside's Art on the Riverside public art programme. " He made work about the Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103

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 blown up over Lockerbie

Lockerbie

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. This included the recreation of a witness box used in the trial of Libyans charged with planting the bomb. Coley's Turner Prize nomination was for large cardboard sculptures of a synagogue, a mosque and a church, which he painted with stripes.

See also

• Turner Prize
  Turner Prize
  The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
  
  
• British art
  British art
  British art could refer to:* Art of the United Kingdom - post 1707* English art* Irish art* Scottish art* Welsh art...
  
  
• Art and Sacred Places
  Art and Sacred Places
  Art and Sacred Places is a UK-based national charity working in the field of commissioning visual art for sacred places. Its work includes both temporary and permanent commissions and projects which bring together communities of people from both faith and non-faith backgrounds.-Mission...
  
  for Coley's 2004 work 'Black Tent'

External links

• Artist's page at Doggerfisher
  • Extensive slideshow of works.
• Jay Merrick on "Show Home" in The Independent June 2003