'Law Enforcement Slogans' is the book form of an artwork of the same name which has been exhibited at London's Whitechapel Gallery as part of The London Open in 2012 and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013 in the exhibition Other People's Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes. When exhibited the work is a floor to ceiling list of international law enforcement slogans paired with the respective agency name in order. In book format each double page spread lists slogans by letter of the alphabet, with slogans on the left-hand page faced on the right by agency name. The first pages list slogans beginning with the letter A 'A Commitment To First Nations - Dakota Ojibway Police Service, Manitoba, Canada' to the final page which ends with 'Zero Deaths. Everyone Counts' from Alaska Bureau Of Highway Patrol, USA. Both sets of text, slogan and agency name, are aligned towards the book gutter where the pages meet. This references how the work was shown at the Whitechapel Gallery and Herzliya, as a single column. Law Enforcement Slogans was first shown in 2011 as a printed spreadsheet, forming part of a group taking place in a disused London office.
About the Author: Chris Coombes was born in Germany in 1974 and received a BA and MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London, in 1998 and 2010 respectively. Website: www.chriscoombes.cc Artist CV / Bio 2009-10 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design 1997 Pratt Institute, BAFA Exchange, Brooklyn NYC 1995-98 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design - 2013 Other People's Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2012 Appropriate Response Vulpes Vulpes, London I Remember A-side B-Side Gallery, London. Curator: Harry Pye Schizm Magazine Issue 5, Contributor The London Open Whitechapel Gallery, London Video Show Curator of 25 artists' work, screened at Function Room, London and Primary, Nottingham 2011 I live in my own world, but it's ok, they know me here Elizabeth House, London Red Mansion Award Shortlisted What, 24 Gray's Inn Road, London Elizabeth House Project, 39 York Place, London 2010 Parking, Hampstead Heath, London 2009 What Is It Good For?, The Griffin, London Rendez-vous Ouagadougou, Contemporain 405, Burkina Faso Curators: Peter Walsh & Kindo Salifou. 2008 Real Life, Portman Gallery, Morpeth School London. Curator: Sarah Sparkes. 2003 100 Mothers, Oxford House, London. Curator: Harry Pye. Please Take One, 39 Mitchell St, London. 2002 Profile Artist's Project for Tate: the art magazine Issue 29 Editor: Tim Marlow Gatsby, New Lansdowne Club, London. Curator Spartacus Chetwynd Serotica, Reception Gallery, London. Curators: Emily Pethick, Kit Hammonds, Emma Mahony Slimvolume II, Publisher: Andrew Hunt, London. V&A Museum Collection Viva Pablo, The Bart Well's Institute, London. Curator: Harry Pye Evidence, Essor Gallery Project Space, London. Curators: Susanne Kohler, Phil Coy. 2001 Tate Celebrity List, collaboration with Christian Rutherford.(Matthew Higgs Imprint '93 50th Project). Interview Martin Creed for Tate Magazine Issue 24. 2000 It May Be Rubbish, But It's British Rubbish, Glassbox, Paris. Curator Harry Pye Funny, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London. Curator: Peter Harris 1999 Spent, Lord Palmerston, London. Curator: Emma Mahony 1998 A to Z, The Approach, London. Curator: Matthew Higgs Tesco Metro Brasso, Performance Bedford Street, London