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John Timberlake was born in 1967 in Lancashire, England. Between 2006 and 2012 he worked on his thesis (Goldsmiths College, University of London Fine Art PhD).
John Timberlake's practice is a pictorialist one, involving mainly photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and practices of conceptualism. In this way, he aims to work in and around issues of picturing, photography and realism as a set of problematics. Commentators have remarked upon his works’ Romanticism but also its schizophrenic qualities; John Timberlake's work often carries within it a sense of instability or fragmentation.
His work has been characterised in part by a sustained critical engagement with landscape, its histories and narratives, depictions of apocalypse, Utopia and the sublime, and also, formally, by a combination of media, sometimes referencing ‘non-fine art’ applications – for example, where he has used painting, he has done so as a backdrop, as an illustration, or as an ‘artist’s impression’ – painting something imagined or projected onto a photographic background, with its resultant figure/ground disjunctures evoking a realism constructed of substitutes and unrealised projections.
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John Timberlake's practice is a pictorialist one, involving mainly photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and practices of conceptualism. In this way, he aims to work in and around issues of picturing, photography and realism as a set of problematics. Commentators have remarked upon his works’ Romanticism but also its schizophrenic qualities; John Timberlake's work often carries within it a sense of instability or fragmentation.
His work has been characterised in part by a sustained critical engagement with landscape, its histories and narratives, depictions of apocalypse, Utopia and the sublime, and also, formally, by a combination of media, sometimes referencing ‘non-fine art’ applications – for example, where he has used painting, he has done so as a backdrop, as an illustration, or as an ‘artist’s impression’ – painting something imagined or projected onto a photographic background, with its resultant figure/ground disjunctures evoking a realism constructed of substitutes and unrealised projections.
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When was John Timberlake born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1967