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John Timberlake
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John Timberlake‘s (b.1967) practice and research as a fine artist engages principally with photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and dialogics of conceptualism. Drawing on the Romantic tradition and the English Picturesque, in Timberlake’s work, landscape is inevitably the site of the trauma of history, it also resonates with the possibilities of recalibrations and renewals through imagined futures. Whilst Timberlake’s work is principally pictorial, it is not bound by one medium, nor one single style: his concerns as an artist are expressed through painting, photography, collage, drawing, sculpture and, occasionally, text.
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John Timberlake is a practising artist and teaches Fine Art Studio Practice at Middlesex University, London. He holds a PhD in Art from Goldsmiths and is an alumnus of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. John co-edited the artist run publication everything magazine from 1994 until its demise in 2002, and is the author of Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary (Intellect / Chicago UP, 2018). John’s exhibitions include Beyond the Wall Lies the Ocean at Sabine Wachters Gallery, Knokke-Heist; For Want of (not) Measuring at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich (2024); Survival Unit (a collaboration with sculptor Dean Kenning) at Project Space Plus, Lincoln (2022); Artist’s Impression: Mangled Metal (2015), Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck; We Are History at Beaconsfield Gallery (2014); Turning Points Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (2014); Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War, Imperial War Museum North (2013); Dark Skies, Adam Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Wellington, NZ (2012); and Beyond the Picturesque, SMAK, Ghent and MARTa, Herford (2009). Timberlake’s work is in the collections of the Imperial War Museum, London; the University of Greenwich; Barts Royal London NHS Trust, the West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania, and private collections internationally. As of 2025, John Timberlake is currently working on a Maltings Trust commission for a sequence of large-scale landscape works drawing inspiration from the littoral and estuarine locations of Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.
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