JAMES COLEMAN
b. 1941, IrelandJames Coleman worked as a background artist for Disney before abandoning painting and moving into the realm of fine art. This history means that his works are a literal representation of histrionics- the mechanics and meaning of staged presence, theatrical projection and the dual perspectives of actor and audience alike. Born in Ireland in 1941, Coleman is recognised internationally as a video artist, photographer and film maker. Coleman’s strategy recalibrates film through restructuring and playing off the assumed veracity of the documentary photograph. His works often take the guise of slide projections and sound installations which examine the relationship between image and subject, and their mutual ‘causation’ through time.
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