Artist statement
My practice is a pictorialist one, involving mainly photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and practices of conceptualism. In this way, I aim to work in and around issues of picturing, photography and realism as a set of problematics. Commentators have remarked upon my works' Romanticism but also its schizophrenic qualities; my work often carries within it a sense of instability or fragmentation. My work has been characterised in part by a sustained critical engagement with landscape, its histories and narratives, depictions of apocalypse, Utopia and the sublime, and also, formally, by a combination of media, sometimes referencing ‘non-fine art’ applications – for example, where I have used painting, I have done so as a backdrop, as an illustration, or as an ‘artist’s impression’ – painting something imagined or projected onto a photographic background, with its resultant figure/ground disjunctures evoking a realism constructed of substitutes and unrealised projections.
Qualifications and training
- 2006 PhD Dept of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London
- 2001 Independent Studio Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- 1998 PGCE(FE) Fine Art, University of Greenwich, London
- 1990 BA(Hons) Fine Art (Alternative Practice), Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton, UK
Solo exhibitions
- 2009 Works of the Imagination, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent
- 2009 Behind the Wall Lies the Ocean, Artis Den Bosch, 's-Hertogenbosch
- 2007 Colony, New Art Gallery, Walsall
- 2004 John Timberlake, Agency Gallery, London
- 2004 John Timberlake, One Twenty Gallery, Ghent
- 2003 Island Life, Sabine Wachters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- 2002 Another Country, Focal Point Gallery and subsequent national tour, Southend, UK
- 2002 Another Country, Artists Space (Project Space), New York, NY
- 2000 A Most Fictile World, Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London
- 2012 Diamond Armour, ARTicle Gallery, School of Art & Design, Birmingham City University
- 2012 Ron Haselden / John Timberlake, Galerie des petits carreaux, Paris (more info)
- 2012 Dark Sky, Te Pataka Toi Adam Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
- 2011 Drawing 2011 Biennial, The Drawing Room, London (more info)
- 2011 Fraternise - the Salon, Beaconsfield, London
- 2010 Cafe Endlager, Geschaftshaus GmbH, Stuttgart
- 2010 Use & Mention, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
- 2009 Pittoresk – Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaft, MARTa, Herford, Westfalen
- 2009 Breakthrough: works from the Collection, Imperial War Museum, London
- 2009 Afterwards, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick
- 2009 Beyond the Picturesque, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
- 2008 Curious Nature, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn Cornwall
- 2008 Curious Nature, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
- 2007 Remember a future past, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
- 2007 A Song Turning Inward, Tatjana Pieters/One Twenty Gallery, Ghent
- 2007 Colony Gallery Stand, Zoo Art Fair, Burlington Gardens, London
- 2006 John Timberlake / Michael Aerts, One Twenty Gallery, Ghent
- 2006 One Twenty Stand, Art Brussels, Brussels
- 2005 Atomica, Esso Gallery / Lombard Freid, New York
- 2005 Naked Cities, Agency Contemporary, London
- 2005 There is always an Alternative, Temporary Contemporary / International 3, London / Manchester
- 2004 East International, Norwich Gallery, 2004
- 2002 Lets Panic Later, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund
Site specific
- 2011 After London, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London (more info)
