Coco Crampton | Joel Tomlin

Coco Crampton

Coco Crampton (b.1983, London, UK), studied at Norwich School of Art and Design before graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2014. Co-opting craft traditions through playful gesture, Coco’s work breathes new life into historical forms, ranging from Victorian furniture to 20^th-century design icons. Weaving together function and fiction Coco’s work embodies a performativity, activated in the imagination of the viewer.

Select exhibitions include: Domestic Wears, Belmacz, London (2020-21); RA Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Odds, TOMA Project Space, London, (2019); Tender Touches, AMP Gallery, London (2019); Estragon, Belmacz, London (2019),Threshing Barn installation, Charleston, Sussex (2018-19); The Artist Practitioner, The Shoe Factory, Norwich (2018); The Ghosts are in the House, Chopping Block Gallery, London (2018); If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Roaming Projects, London (2018), Alpenglühen: 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr, Belmacz, London (2017); RA Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017); Bowers: from form to public (solo show), Belmacz, London (2016); RA Summer Exhibition (2016), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016); All Over, Studio_Leigh, London (2016); Looking At People, Looking At Art, Division of Labour, London (2016); Gradation (recent graduates of the Royal Academy Schools), Art First, London (2016);  Kingly Things (a two-person show with Agata Madejska), Chandelier Projects, London (2015); Handles on Romance & Other Girls also Common Tongue, The Minories Galleries, Colchester (2015); Cassius Clay, Marcelle Joseph Projects, London (2014); Protected Space, two-person exhibition with Jonathan Baldock, Belmacz Gallery, London (2014); A Thing is a Thing is a Thing, The Minories Galleries, Colchester (2012); Slipped, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2012); Bonne Bouche, The Cut, Suffolk (2010); A Skvader, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich (2009); Views from Afar, Vulpes Vulpes, London (2009); Kunstwerk Bazaar, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich (2008); “18”, Centre Gallery, Berlin (2008); Swing, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich (2007); WYSIWYG, F.A.I.T. Krakow, Poland (2006).

Coco was shortlisted for the Dorich House Museum Residency in 2020 and the Dentons Art Prize S/S 2018.

Coco lives and works in London.

Joel Tomlin

Joel Tomlin (b.1969, Sheffield, UK), studied painting at Chelsea College of Art. Departing from painting, Joel often works through sculptural forms and crafted assemblages. With references to the folkloric, Joel’s work has an innate finesse that comes through his artisanal approach. Here, the patinas of time allude to both the master craftsman’s hand well as to his dreamy disposition. In this way, Joel’s sculptures appear to have come from an Arcadian world, a somewhat romantic space of natural splendour and harmony.

Selected exhibitions include: Spoke Eye, Belmacz, London (2019); duo exhibition with Felicitas Aga, Atelier Huth, Germany (2019);  Backyard Sculpture, Domobaal, London (2019); point of view 2019, Randan Barns, Hay (2019); Apple, Dice, Knife,  Sothebys Stockholm, Sweden (2018); The Ashtray Show West, Belmacz, London (2018); Humble as Hell, Merz Barn, Elterwater (2017); The Names, Transition Gallery, London (2016); Calyx Horse, Belmacz, London (2015); A Bestiary, Turf Projects, London (2015); Naturrelikt und Kunstkonstrukt, Grafikmuseum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben, Germany (2015); Unplanned Memories, Transition Gallery, London (2014); Fourth Drawer Down, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2014); News from Nowhere, William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, London (2014); Selected Paintings and Sculpture, Kronach, Germany (2013); Women in love, Belmacz, London (2013); Parallel Universe, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London (2012); Ever since I put your picture in a frame, 42 Carlton place, Glasgow (2012); The Perfect Nude, Wimbledon Space at Wimbledon College of Art, London (2012); A Sort of Night to the Mind A Kind of Night for our Thoughts, Artary Galerie, Stuttgart and Berlin (2011); I Spy, Galerie Jones, Cologne (2011); The Perfct Nude, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter (2011); Sehnsucht, Transition Gallery, London (2009); Think of a table for two, Galerie Jones, Cologne (2008); Oh Vienna, Transition Gallery, London (2008); Alf Löhr, Galerie Jones, Cologne (2007); Fable, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (2006); Faltering Flame, Graves Gallery, Sheffield (2005); Intoxicated, Max Wigram Gallery, London (2005).

Joel lives and works in London.