About the Exhibition
Presented in partnership with The Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland
Questioning belief systems and investigating architectural structures inhabited by and invested with faith form Turner Prize nominee Coley’s three-dimensional practice.
His work for The Enlightenments takes as its starting point three gnarled tree trunks that support the extraordinary undulating roof of a remote 19th century stone cottage in Perthshire.
Coley has isolated and re-presented this existing element of the built environment – architecturally remixing spruce and pine trunks through a process that included drying out the trunks in kilns over the course of three months, applying coats of eggshell and a final layer of meticulously chosen paint. Text is also being added through a highly involved process which will result in textual references being slightly visible through a series of small holes drilled into the trunks using a steel template made with a computer guided laser cutter.
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