Henry Coombes

Scottish artists' films mark Commonwealth Games' move from Delhi to Glasgow

29 Sep 2010

Henry Coombes Red Palmer In the Black Gnat factory near Thomson’s Falls in Kenya, 8000ft above sea level, local women tie traditional Scottish trout flies to be exported to British fly fishing market. With names like Red Palmer, Zulu and Grouse and…

Jim Poole Film Awards shortlist announced

5 Nov 2009

The shortlist of films and judges for the 2009 Jim Poole Scottish Short Film Award are below. The awards will take place on Sunday 8 November at 1.00pm at The Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh. Entry is free and tickets are only available on the day itself.

Henry Coombes: The Bedfords

A film portait of effortless finesse

17 Sep 2009

The Bedfords tells the story of English painter Edwin Landseer’s commission to paint a family portrait of the Bedfords at their home in the Scottish Highlands. Like a twenty minute moving painting, the film is a portrait study of Landseer and…

Visual Art hitlist

3 Sep 2009

Agnes Martin, Alan Davie, Cerith Wyn Evans with Throbbing Gristle, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Henry Coombes, Agnes Martin, Dani Marti, Thomas Hirschhorn

Venice Biennale 2007

18 Jun 2007

(Image: Gun Fight of the Mind by Tony Swain) The Venice Biennale is sinking. The 110-year-old international exhibition is fighting to keep its place as the world’s creative laboratory of artistic endeavour, consequently finding itself swamped with…

Venice Biennale

Six of the best

30 Jan 2007

Congratulations to Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain, who have been selected to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art, after months of deliberation. The Scottish show, which will…

Venice Biennale - who's going

Six of the best

30 Jan 2007

Congratulations to Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain, who have been selected to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art, after months of deliberation. The Scottish show, which will…

Venice Biennale

The big four

29 Jan 2007

As one of the most varied line-ups that Scotland has presented at this year’s biennale, Doggerfisher’s Lucy Skaer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Louise Hopkins and Charles Avery will head out to the Scottish Palazzo Zenobio to make new work for their…