Tom Colebrook :: Allsopp Contemporary :: Artist

Biography

Tom Colebrook is an intriguing young film maker. His highly performative film and video work operate within the familiar structures of writing and narrative yet use the identity of the artist as a vehicle for fantastical investigation. Characters and caricatures - rock stars, clowns, American heroes, all serve as a framework for the artist to address and play out fantasy within the confines of dead-pan reality. These seemingly cathartic and often highly humorous characters offer an identity somewhere between their own and the artist's whilst revealing Colebrook's obsession with authorship, self-made fantasy and the validity of an artist's creation. Since graduating from the Slade in 2003 where he studied performance art, film and photography Colebrook has completed a number of video works including the Rock and Roll Trilogy (screened at Allsopp Contemporary, July 2005). He recently completed his first feature film, Barry and Tarquin with BBC comedy producer Simon Nicholls (see Projects).   He lives and works in London.

Education

1999-2003: Slade School of Fine Art, London.  1998 - 1999: Kensington and Chelsea College, London.

Group Exhibitions

2005

You, Me and Him, London

Screening of It's Only Rock and Roll Trilogy at Allsopp Contemporary, London

2004

Material, Next New Artists, Portland Place , London (catalogue). Live performance of It's Only Rock and Roll

2003

Slade School of fine Art, Degree Show.

2000

Private Commission, Barnes, London.

Slade School Project award.

Since Spring 2005 Colebrook has been writnd, directing and editing his first feature film Barry & Tarquin to be screened at Allsopp Contemporary's gallery in April 2006.

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