About this artwork

This outdoor work by Nathan Coley proposes, on a scaffolding support six metres high in illuminated text, ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’. This originates from a project in which Coley posted a series of public announcements around the town of Stirling. One included these words, taken from a seventeenth-century royal proclamation made in a French town believed to have been the frequent site of miracles. Coley’s practice is based in an interest in public space, and how systems of personal, social, religious and political belief structure our towns and cities, and thereby ourselves.

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  • artist:
    Nathan Coley (born 1967) Scottish
  • title:
    There will be no Miracles Here
  • date created:
    2007 - 2009
  • materials:
    Electric lights, scaffolding
  • measurements:
    Dimensions variable
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    Purchased with assistance from Art Fund and the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland, 2011
  • accession number:
    GMA 5138
  • gallery:
  • artwork photographed by:
    Antonia Reeve
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Nathan Coley

Nathan Coley