'Chinese City Tea Caddy'

Robert Cooper is an established ceramicist who has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. He is fascinated by the persistence of artefacts and ideas. He often uses found objects, such as pottery shards from the Thames foreshore, which are imbued with a previous life and function, as a starting point for his work.

He has, for many years, employed recycling as a mode of working. Different elements such as clays, oxides and glazes left over from teaching sessions, discontinued ceramic transfers, printed imagery from popular culture and even pieces of previous work are recombined to create new narratives with multiple meanings.

EXHIBITIONS

'Tea for two'
Officinesaffi Gallery, Milan, Italy
30 Nov 2011 - 21 Jan 2012

Newport museum
17 December 2011 – 25 February 2012