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Paul Coombs

MA work

  • Organ On (Image One)

    Organ On (Image One), Paul Coombs 2018
    Digital Photograph (Documentation of a Performance)

    Organ On (Image One), Paul Coombs 2018
    Digital Photograph (Documentation of a Performance)

  • We Were The Human Race (Film Still)

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

  • Organ On (Image Two)

    Organ On (Image Two), Paul Coombs 2018
    Digital Photograph (Documentation of a Performance)

    Organ On (Image Two), Paul Coombs 2018
    Digital Photograph (Documentation of a Performance)

  • We Were The Human Race (Film Still)

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

  • Organ On (Image Three)

    Organ On (Image Three), Paul Coombs 2018
    Digital Photograph (Documentation of a Performance)

    Organ On (Image Three), Paul Coombs 2018
    Digital Photograph (Documentation of a Performance)

  • We Were The Human Race (Film Still)

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

  • We Were The Human Race (Film Still)

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

    We Were The Human Race (Film Still), Paul Coombs 2018
    Durational 3D Scan

Organ On (We Were The Human Race)

For the final show I will be presenting a series of live spoken-word performances, rotating them daily.

In place of me when I am not performing is an accompanying animation, constructed from durational portrait photographs taken with a 3D scanner over the course of six months.

Programme
Contemporary Art Practice

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Arts & Humanities

    Programme

    MA Contemporary Art Practice, 2018

    Specialism

    movingimage

  • My practice is an examination of the Queer politik and a splintering of the self caused by prejudice and societal expectation.

    Whilst at the Royal College Of Art my work has developed into live spoken-word performance, utilising personal experience and direct recollection to become both object and subject.

  • Degrees

  • BA (Hons) Animation, Edinburgh College Of Art, 1998

  • Experience

  • CAPSID (Acting role in a film by John Walter), CGP Gallery & Wellcome Trust, London, 2018

  • Exhibitions

  • Backbone - Paul Coombs & Gabriel Mulvey, Art Night Launch, Vauxhall, London, 2018; Empire II, Haus Gallery, Talin, 2018; Degree Show 2018, Royal College Of Art Battersea, London, 2018; Soapbox, Close-Up Cinema, London, 2018; RCA Cap-Baret ( Just Words, performance ), Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Royal College Of Art, London, 2018; Purple Velvet Vol.2 ( In June, performance ), Art Bar, Royal College Of Art, London, 2018; The New Darkroom ( Just Words, performance ), Dyson Gallery, Royal College Of Art, London, 2018; Purple Velvet Vol.1 ( Just Words, performance ), Art Bar, Royal College Of Art, London, 2017; Empire II, Spektrum, Berlin, 2017; The Book of the World, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, 2017; Empire II, Castello 1610, Venice, 2017; Rage - The Odious Smell Of Truth, Hockney Gallery, London, 2017; Empire II, Art Brussels, Brussels, 2017; WIP Show, Royal College Of Art, London, 2017; Ill Meat, La Fonderie, Geneva, 2016; Fit the Slit, Lido Beach, Venice, 2015; Dildosis - Pride (Performance with flag), London, 2015; Take me home - Pride in London, Earl's Court, London, 2015; Switchboard LGBTI + Archive, Waldorf & Trafalgar Hotels, London, 2015; The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Castello 1610, Venice, 2015

  • Publications

  • Michael Petry, 'The Book Of The Word', Thames and Hudson, 2018

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