Artist Film Maker/therapist
Therapist specialising in creative block, and the fulfilment of creative potential across the arts.
EDUCATION
2016 -2017.
Accredited certificate in Hypnotherapy. Glasgow Strathclyde University.
New Approaches is a development programme run by Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN)
2013 – 2015.
Integrative CBT Diploma in Therapy, Centre of Therapy, Glasgow.
1999–2002
BA(hons) Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
2000
Fine Art, Chicago Art Institute
1997- 1998
Diploma in Film, London International Film School
1996–1997
Foundation Course, Central St. Martin’s College of Art
CREATIVE POTENTIAL THERAPIST
2016.
Working with private clients across the arts since June 2015. Based at Centre of Therapy Glasgow.
12 week pilot at Glasgow School of Art delivering adapted CBT for creative block, for students in Learning Support.
2015
Body and Mind Group Work, Glasgow School of Art. Delivering 3 week course, in Creative Potential, using adapted models of CBT.
2014
Assistant Teacher on COSCA course module 3, Centre of Therapy, Glasgow.
2013 – 2015
Integrative CBT Therapist. Placement at First Step. Wishaw.
ART LECTURER.
2017 – to present day
Lecturer in Moving Image. Fine Art Dept. Newcastle University.
2014 – 2016
Art Lecturer, HMP Shotts, Learning Centre, managed by New Lanarkshire College.
2016
Curator ‘Third Hand, Autonomous Art From Scottish Prisons’. Exhibited at the CCA, Glasgow, part of Glasgow International 2016.
2011 – 2015.
Visiting Art Tutor, Sculptural and Environmental Art Department, Glasgow School of Art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Premiere of ‘Seat In Shadow’, debut artist feature, at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016.
Solo, Seat In Shadow, Glasgow International Arts Festival 2016.
2015
Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale. Audience Award. Silver Award.
City Gallery Wellington. Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
2014
Sydney Biennale. Sydney Australia.
Fleming House, London, Two Discs and a Zed, Nuit Blanche Video Festival.
2013
CCA. Glasgow. Man of the Year.
2012
I am The Architect. House of an Art Lover. Glasgow International Arts Festival.
Solo Presentation at Cologne Art Fair. Jette Rudolph Gallery.
2011
Jette Rudolph Gallery, Berlin. Germany
2010
Magic towards Your Face. Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art.
2009
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands,
‘The Bedfords’, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2008
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (commission)
Susie Q Project Space, Zurich
2007
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach (Solo Position)
Black Button, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2006
Anna Helwing, Los Angeles
Tramway, Glasgow (screening of newly commissioned film)
2004
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Transmission, Glasgow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Now 5. National Galleries of Modern Art Scotland.
2015
CIRCA Projects at Workplace Gallery, Exhibition, Group Show, Gateshead –January.
2014
Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. National Galleries of Scotland.
ACCA, Melbourne, ‘Instinct’. December. Including, Beuys, Cattelan, von Wullfin, Wachtler, Lux.
2012
‘I am The Architect’, premiered at Rain Dance, London.
2010
Oklahoma Bienalle, Road is My River Short Film.
London Short Film Festival, screened the ‘Bedfords’, nominated for best short.
2009
Running Time: Artist Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Scottish National
Galleries, Edinburgh 2nd Nov–8th Nov
Sitges Film Festival. Showing the short film ‘Bedfords’ before festival premiere.
A Tradition I Do Not Mean To Break, Zabludowicz Collection: Project Space 176, London
Liste Art Fair, Liste, Basel
Being and Nothingness, Light and Sie Gallery, Dallas (curated by James Cope)
Grin & Bear It: cruel humour in art & life, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University of Cork, Cork
The Armory Show, New York (Booth 706)
2008
‘To bring forth and give’ Sorcha Dallas Artist’s Print Project, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
27th Amiens International Film Festival, MCA, Amiens
Frieze Art Fair, London Milan Film Festival, Various Venues, Milan
Cabinet of Curiosities, Museo Civico di Rovereto, Trentino
‘Laddy and the Lady’ screening, Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam
2007
The 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice (one of six selected artists to represent Scotland)
Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow (‘Laddy and the Lady’ screened alongside Matthew Barney’s ‘Drawing Restraint 9’)
Scotland at Venice, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Filmform Videoprogram, Cinemateque, Stockholm (Selected International film program curated by Filmform)
An Archaeology, Zabludowicz Collection: Project Space 176, London 27th Atlantic Film Festival, Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia Subzone 2, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt Am Main.
Kortfilm Festival, Kulturhus, Grimstad, Norway
The 53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2006
NADA Art Fair, Ice Palace Studios, Miami
Laddy and the Lady, Filmhouse, Edinburgh (screening as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival)
If Not Now, Broadway 1602, New York
Liste, Basel
2005
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair, Miami Group Exhibition,
2004
Group Exhibition, Temporary Office Space, Glasgow
Group Exhibition, Centre de Creation, Bazouges la Perouse
REVIEWS/PRESS
2016
Glasgow International review – irrepressible vitality everywhere. Laura Cumming. 10th of April, Guardian
Artist Henry Coombes makes a love letter to Glasgow – with a little help from Arnie, 3 Apr 2016 / Barry Didcock, Herald.
2014
Biennale of Sydney ,Neue Zurcher Zeitung. Die Eine an anderen Ende der Welt. Samuel Herzog Biennale of Sydney, Art in America, Sydney Biennale. Jason Farago.
2013
CCA , Glasgow, Man of The Year. Skinny Magazine.
2012
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts Review. Guardian. Laura Cumming.
2009.
Artists of Course Are a Completely Foreign Species. Map Magazine. Elizabeth Neilson.
2007
Scots go for Gold in Venice. The Herald. Phil Miller. Scotland Sail in Venice. Erlend Clouston.
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2016
Nominated for The Michael Powell Award for best British Feature, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Nominated for best performance in a British Feature, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016.
2015
Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale. Audience Award. Silver Award.
Nominated for the 2015 Film London Jarman Award.
2014
Selected for The Sydney Biennale.
2013
Natural Benachie Residency, Scottish Sculpture Workshops.
2012
House of An Art Lover. Resident Artist. Glasgow International Arts Festival. 2012
2011
Cove Park Artist Residency
2010
CCA Walls of Light, film commission. Sources Script Development Course. Norway.
Shortlisted for best short at the London Short Film Festival for the ‘Bedfords’.
2009
Nominated for a Scottish Bafta for short film ‘The Bedfords’. ‘The Bedfords’ Premiered at Stiges Film Festival Spain
2007
Selected to represent Scotland at The Venice Biennale.
Creative Scotland Award.
2005
Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Award for Film