John Timberlake

b. Lancashire, 1967

John Timberlake is a London based artist whose combinations of drawing, painting and photography reflect a longstanding engagement with landscape and history.

The work of John Timberlake deals with concepts of landscape. Drawing on the Romantic tradition and the English Picturesque, in Timberlake’s work, landscape is inevitably the site of the trauma of history, it also resonates with the possibilities of recalibrations and renewals through imagined futures. Whilst Timberlake’s work is principally pictorial, it is not bound by one medium, nor one single style: his concerns as an artist are expressed through painting, photography, collage, drawing, sculpture and, occasionally, text. John Timberlake (b. Lancashire, northern England, 1967) is a London based artist. He studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic (BA Hons, Fine Art Alternative Practice 1987-1990); The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York City, where he was Van Lier Fellow 2001-2002, and Goldsmiths, London (practice / theory Ph.D 2006-2013). Timberlake’s recent exhibitions include: ‘…both a beyond and the conditions of mapping that beyond’   a collaboration with Ron Haselden, at Husk space, London (2019); 10-4 at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London (2018); Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke, Belgium, (2017); Visions of War Above and Below (Imperial War Museum, London, 2015-16); Artists Impression: Mangled Metal (2015, at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London; We Are History (Beaconsfield, London, 2014) and Turning Points (Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, 2014-15).

ARTIST WORKS

Coastal Landscape
2023
Oil on canvas
75 x 75 x 4 cm

Behind the Wall Lies the Ocean 4
2024
Oil on canvas
165 x 132 x 4 cm

Rare Sun Hypothesis 1
2024
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper
137 x 101 cm

Behind the Wall Lies the Ocean 1
2008
Oil on canvas
132 x 165 x 4 cm

Rare Sun Hypothesis 3
2024
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper
137 x 101 cm

Rare Sun Hypothesis 2
2024
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper
137 x 101 cm

Stoic Landscape 4 (diptych)
2023
Oil on canvas
100 x 100 x 4 cm;
100 x 150 x 4cm

Untitled Sea study
2024
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper
137 x 101cm

The Reservoir
2023
Oil on canvas
75 x 100 x 4 cm

Untitled Landscape 2
2022
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper
76 x 56 cm

Untitled Landscape 3
2022
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper
76 x 56 cm

Untitled Landscape 1
2021
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper
76 x 56 cm

A Repetitive False Memory II
2018
Oil on Canvas
100 x 250 cm
Private Collection

An Abstraction
2017
Oil on Canvas
165 x 320 cm

Distant Towns I
2020
Acrylic on Paper
26 x 31 cm

Distant Towns II
2020
Acrylic on Paper
26 x 38 cm

Distant Towns IV
2020
Acrylic on Paper
26 x 38 cm

Distant Towns V
2020
Acrylic on Paper
26 x 38 cm

Distant Towns III
2020
Acrylic on Paper
26 x 31 cm