Pub Conversation: Douglas White & Justin Coombes

This from the Self Service mailing list, announcing the next in the series of Pub Conversations:

Thursday 17th Jan from 7.30pm

back at our usual venue:
The Lamp Tavern,
257 Barford Street,
Birmingham.
B5 6AH

Aside from directions and past conversation podcasts, our website is playing up at the moment so it isn’t up-to-date. Instead, please see the biographies below to realise why this is a night in the pub not to miss.

Places are free but please rsvp to selfservice[at]hotmail.co.uk to book.
Also, please pass this on to your mailing lists and any others who may be interested.

Douglas White

A Royal College of Art graduate, Douglas White has won the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award, and a Mann Drawing Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize and the Jerwood Drawing Prize. He has also won the Cockburn Art Prize (1999), the Southsquare Art Scholarship (1996) and the Margaret Pollock Scholarship (2004). His work was selected for the New Contemporaries exhibition in 2004 and 2006. His first solo show was held in October 2006 at Paradise Row, London.

Justin Coombes

Another Paradise Row solo show artist, Justin Coombes is a Goldsmith’s graduate, specialising in photography. He was short-listed for the Paul Hamlyn Award 2007 and the Vordemberge-Gildewart Prize 2006 and won the BOC Emerging Artist Award in 2005. He also has work in the British Government Art Collection.