Born 1967, Lancashire, England

Contact details:

john.timberlake@talk21.com

Education

2006 - Present Goldsmiths College, University of London Fine Art PhD (Upgraded Nov 2007)

2001-2002 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.

1987-1990 Brighton Polytechnic (now the University of Brighton) BA(Hons) Fine Art (First Class with Commendation)

Solo Exhibitions

2011 After London Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London

2009 Works of the Imagination, Tatjana Pieters/One Twenty, Ghent, Belgium

Behind the Wall Lies the Ocean, Artis Den Bosch, Holland

2007 John Timberlake: Colony, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK

2004 John Timberlake One Twenty Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

John Timberlake, The Agency, London

2003 Island life, Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke, Belgium

Another Country, Worcester Museum, England

2002 Another CountryUK touring exhibition organised by Focal Point Gallery/Hertfordshire University/ Worcester Museum 2002 – 2003, supported by the Arts Council of England National Touring Programme

Another CountryProject room installation, Artists Space, New York, USA (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)

2001 A Photograph and Some DrawingsThe Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2000 A most fictile world Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels, Belgium

1995 "..real concrete men" Commercial Gallery, London

1991 Insertion Oldham Art Gallery, Greater Manchester

Group exhibitions (including textual/collaborative/performance work)

2011 25th Anniversary Exhibition & Auction The Freud Museum, London

2011 Heartlands, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire, England

2011 Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London

2011 Fraternise - the Salon Beaconsfield, London

2010 Use & Mention, curated by John Chilver, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich

2009 Pittoresk, MARTa, Herford, Germany, UK

2009 Afterwards, curated by Sharon Kivland, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK

2009 Beyond the Picturesque, SMAK, Ghent curated by Frank Maes and Steven Jacobs (postponed from 2007)

2008 Transition 8 Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall, UK

Curious Nature curated by Eliza Gluckman and Lucy Day, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall, UK

2007 Remember A Future Past, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London (curated by CCA students)

Colony Gallery Stand, Zoo Art Fair, London

A Song Turning Inwards, Tatjana Pieters/One Twenty, Ghent

Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires, Colony Gallery, Birmingham

2006 John Timberlake / Michaël Aerts Tatjana Pieters/One Twenty Gallery, Ghent

2005 Naked Cities The Agency, London

There is always an alternative Temporary Contemporary, London (curated by Dave Beech and Mark Hutchinson)

Atomica Esso Gallery / Lombard Fried New York (curated by Ombretta Agro')

2004 The Birthday Party, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

EAST International 2004 Norwich Gallery, Norwich.(Selectors Neo Rauch, Gerd Harry Lybke)

After Life, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle Co Durham (Curated by Simon Morrissey).

2003 Anti Panto Floating IP Gallery, Manchester

How Dish Wing, The Poetry Society, London

2002 Let’s Panic Later Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany

Open Studios, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York

everything volume 4:1/4:2

2001 everything Volume 3:4

Group show, Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke, Belgium

2000 everything Volume 3:2

Working Title (as part of everything Editorial) Stanley Picker Gallery, University of

Kingston, Surrey

Executive Outcomes Platform Gallery, London E1

everything Volume 3:3

Sabine Wachters Stand, Turin Art Fair, Turin, Italy 2/10/00-7/10/00

1999 Anxiety Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (curated by Sarah Munro)

everything Volume 2:4

The Grinding Machine Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels

Group show, Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke, Belgium

everything Volume 3:1

Galerie Sabine Wachters Stand, Art Forum 99, Messegelaende, Berlin

Disaster curated by James Green and Michael Stanley, The Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, England

1998 eBC 1, New Media Centre, ICA, London

everything Volume 2:2

What Difference Does It Make? Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, England (selected by Matthew

Higgs, Kate Bush, Olivier Richon, Ronnie Simpson)

everything Volume 2:3

Video Soup, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

Exhibitionists (Performance 17.10.98) ICA, London

1997 Only Wankers Weep, project space, The Tannery, London SE1

Life/Live (as part of everything Editorial and in Best of Bank TV) Centro Cultural de

Belém (Lisbon) Portugal

BANK: It's a rip off, Dog, London N

Martin, Atlantis Space and Commercial Gallery, London E1

Best of Bank TV, London Electronic Arts, London N1

Getting Out of Our Box, (Launch of Words & Pictures Issue 10) ICA, London

BANK: Sewage Lust, ICA, London

everything Volume 2:1

1996 Their Chromakey & Ours, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

City Limits, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent

BANK TV/Viper: live performance at Dog, London N1 and Dukes 92 Bar, Manchester

(shown also at ICA London, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, and Castlefield Gallery,

Manchester)

everything issues 19, 20, 21

1995 everything issues 16,17,18

1994 everything issues 14, 15

1993 BANK: Natural History, Battlebridge Centre, London WC1

Reviews/Media

Emma Dexter: In the Hothouse Brighton Polytechnic Degree Show Catalogue 1990

Sarah Kent: Natural History, Time Out 18.8.93

Robert Garnett: Charge of the Light Brigade/John Timberlake, Art Monthly November 1995

Politics and Conceptualism, Video, Norwich Gallery, March 1996

Their Chromakey & Ours: Interview, The Late Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Newcastle 22.4.96

Peter Suchin: Atkinson Unpacked Letters, Art Monthly October 1996

Sacha Craddock: Martin The Times 1.7.97

Martin Herbert: Martin Time Out 2.7.97

Pauline van Mourik Broekman: Martin Mute Issue 9 February 1998

Dave Beech: What Difference Does It Make ? Art Monthly, July-August 1998

William Silk: Anxiety : Edinburgh Collective Gallery The List 4-18 February 1999

Neurotic Realism - Does It Exist? panel discussion Webcast from Backspace, Clink St, London 21.3.99 (http://www.bak.spc.org/everything)

Robert Clark: Exhibitions; Disaster The Guardian Guide Listings 9.10.99 (Northern edition)

Sotiris Kyriacou: Disaster Art Monthly, February 2000

Claude Lorent: Un Monde Parfait - John la menace La Libre Culture No 52 1/3/00

Guy Gilsoul: Nouages sur la campagne anglaise LeVif/L'Express 3/3/2000

Ian Ramsey: Hot Tickets The Bulletin - The Newsweekly of the Capital of Europe 9/3/2000

David Musgrave: Executive Outcomes Art Monthly, July-August 2000

Dan Fox: Executive Outcomes BT Magazine, August 2000 (Japan)

BANK: Bank London (2000) Black Dog Publishing ISBN1 901033 42 2

John Timberlake: Obituary:Liz Arnold The Scotsman 1/5/01

Helen Monaghan: John Timberlake and Sandy Grant The List Magazine, 5-19/7/0

Shayna Skarf:: Storm Troopers Time Out New York 21-28th March 2002

Christiane Fricke: Keiner hat mehr ein Gesicht Suddeutsche Zeitung 14th June 2002

Roy Exley: Another Reality Source The Photographic Review Autumn 2002 Issue 32

Marianne Wellershoff: Romantische Atompilze kulturSPIEGEL 10/2002

Focus on John Timberlake Art on Paper vol 7 Number 1 Sept-Oct 2002

Christine Vuegen: John Timberlake Kunstbeeld nr. 4 2003

Mark Hutchinson: John Timberlake, Agency Contemporary The Future Issue 1 October 2004

Daniella Johnson: East International 2004 Flash Art Issue 238 October 2004

Crone, B (Ed) (2006) 8 Artists Try Not to Talk About Art Space, London ISBN 0-9554060-0-5

Op Art The Guardian 2nd September 2006

Edwards, Steve, (2006), "Produkcija Objektivnosti V Fotografiji Zgodnjega 19. Stoletja", Borec: Revija Za Zgodivino, Anthropologijo in Knievnost, 635-638, LVIII, pp.163-81. ISSN: 0006-7725

Amy Bell: John Timberlake: Colony Metro 12 February 2007

Charles Danby John Timberlake: Colony Axisweb Dialogue

http://www.axisweb.org/dlFULL.aspx?ESSAYID=71 (ISSN 1749-4990)

Catalogues

Life/Live Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1996

Life/Live: A cena artistica no Reino Unido em 1996: novas aventuras Centro de Cultural de Belém 1997

eBC1: 28/4/98 everything publications/ICA/Arts Council of England 1998 (Video)

eBC1: 28/4/98 everything publications/ICA/Arts Council of England 1998 (CD-Rom)

Disaster Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston Borough Council 1999

John Timberlake: Another Country University of Hertfordshire 2002 (ISBN 1-898543-67-4) Texts by Lesley Farrell, Director, Focal Point, Professor Geoffrey Batchen (CUNY Graduate Center, NYC) and Lauri Firstenberg (Artists Space NYC)

Let’s Panic Later Künstlerhaus Dortmund 2002

After Life (2004) ed Simon Morrissey, Bowes Museum England

East International 2004 (text on John Timberlake by Michael Corris) Norwich Gallery

(ISBN 1 872482 68 6 )

PILOT:1 (eds Colin Guillemet, Doriene Lathier, Rory Macbeth, Elizabeth McAlpine, Matthew Poole) Double Plus Publishing (2004)

Open Frequency Selected Artists

PILOT:2(eds Colin Guillemet, Doriene Lathier, Rory Macbeth, Elizabeth McAlpine, Matthew Poole) Double Plus Publishing (2005)

Beyond the Picturesque (2009)(ed. Frank Maes and Steven Jacobs) SMAK

Pittoresk MARTa Herford (2009)

Fiction

Bussard Ramjet Artwords/Artis Den Bosch, 2009

Collections

Imperial War Museum, London

West Collection at SEI, Economist Plaza, St James's, London / Oaks PA USA

Work in private collections in Belgium, England, France, Germany.

Awards/grants

2009 Postproducktie grant, Artis Den Bosch

2006 British Council Award for artists exhibiting abroad

2003 British Council Award for artists exhibiting abroad

2002 Arts Council of England National Touring Programme award for touring exhibition Another

Country

2001-2002 Van Lier Foundation Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art

2000 British Council Award for artists exhibiting abroad

1994 - 2001 share of Arts Council of England funding for everything magazine (artist produced publication)