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.
Watch "Masterclass with Robert Cooper" | Ceramic Review
'Tower of Babel', Robert Cooper
at m2(at)15, Retrospective Exhibition, May 2018
EXHIBITIONS:
MIAR ceramics & Arts Exhibition 2020
Preview Sat 25th April 2-7pm
Sat 2nd, Sun 3rd May
Bank Holiday Friday 8th, Sat 9th & Sun 10th May
Sat 16th & Sun 17th May
Sat 23rd, Sun 24th & Bank Holiday Monday 25th May
11am -6pm on all the above dates except preview.
Kay Aplin Open House 2020
Joy at The Ceramic House
75 Stanmer Villas, Brighton BN1 7HN
Sat & Sun 2 - 24 May 2020
Contemporary Applied Arts/curated displays
Plumline Gallery
2 Barnoon Hill, Saint Ives TR26 1AD
'Field Work' haptic/tacit
Date and venue TBA
COURSES:
INTERVIEWS/POSTS/Etc.
Ceramic Review: From The Shoreline: Today’s mudlarking ceramists: https://www.ceramicreview.com/from-the-shoreline/
Alison Swan Website 'JOURNAL' www.alisonswan.com/robert-cooper
Holding onto Memory a short post on Robert's work at CAA by Frances McDonald