Coombes was born in London in 1977 and completed his BA at Glasgow School of Art in 2002. Since then he has had solo shows at Anna Helwing, LA, The Cooper Gallery, Dundee, and Suzie Q Project Space, Zurich. Group shows include Broadway 1602, New York, and The Zabludowicz Collection Project Space, London. Coombes was a recipient of the 2005 Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Film award and his short film, ‘Laddy and the Lady’, was premiered at the Tramway, Glasgow in June 2006. It has since screened at film festivals in Oberhausen, Norway, Edinburgh, Stockholm and Nova Scotia. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and exhibited at the Hammer Museum, LA in June 2008. This year will see the screening of his fourth short film, 'The Bedfords', which was made possible through a Creative Scotland Award. The film debuts at Lights and Sie, Dallas, in April with the support of the Michael Goss Foundation and will be shown later in the year at Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow and the Zabludowicz Project Space, London.
Henry Coombes’s work is concerned with investigating the entrenched political, cultural and class connotation of the traditional media in which he works. Oil paint and watercolour are used to seduce the viewer into familiar and wholesome images, which on closer inspection reveal a dark and subversive subtext.
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