In his work, Les Joynes excavates. sublimates and resurrects images of entropy, deconstruction and regrowth in urban spaces and in imagined places. His work offers glimpses of forms that hover on the verge of definition and is reminiscent of an archaeological excavation where almost-recognized objects are subsumed in multiple strata. His research often takes him to abandoned towns, condemned factories, decommissioned military installations and other sites which echo human activity.

Joynes is from Santa Barbara, California and possesses a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fine Art from Central St. Martins College of Art, London; Master of Arts Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University London; and he is recipient of a Monbusho Scholarship in Japan at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. He is presently researching entropy and formlessness in contemporary art at Leeds School of Contemporary Art/ Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

His work has been included at Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin; Nylon, London; Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo; The Art Center/Art and Culture Foundation, Seoul; Romo Gallery, Atlanta; Barbican Concourse Gallery; London; BEFF-Bangkok; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and Maejima Art Center/AIT Tactical Museum, Japan. Most recently he has exhibited at Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York in Les Joynes: Middleworlds (2008) and Parallel Universes (2008) at Aamotgaard, Norway. In 2008 he has been on Fellowship and residency at the Nordisk Kunstnarsenter-Dalsasen, Norway. He is presently a Bauhaus Fellow at the Bauhaus Stiftung, Dessau, Germany where he has a studio and is is creating work related to the postfunctional and the posthuman in urban settings.

Image: Detail from series "From the frontiers of deconstructed power "(bunker in Eastern Germany), 2003