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Nathan Coley is a contemporary British installation artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007.

Nathan Coley was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He makes installations based on architectural themes. One such is a scale model of the Manchester Marks and Spencer building which was damaged by an IRA bomb and subsequently demolished.

Also shortlisted is Glaswegian artist Nathan Coley, 39, who makes architectural installations. Among his best-known are a scale model of the old Marks and Spencer store in Manchester demolished after it was damaged by an IRA bomb.[1] He made work about the Pan Am Flight 103 blown up over Lockerbie. This included the recreation of a witness box in the trial of Libyans charged with planting the bomb.[1] His Turner Prize nomination was for large cardboard sculptures of a synagogue, a mosque and a church, which he painted with stripes.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c Reynolds, Nigel "Iraq protest camp shortlisted for Turner Prize" The Daily Telegraph online, May 10, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2207
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