'Lilly' 2017. Photo: Michael Harvey
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
Candlesticks. Photo: Layton Thompson
EXHIBITION
'About a Vase' Exhibition in Montelupo, Italy
17 June - 23 Sept 2018
Ceramic Museum of Montelupo
Piazza Vittorio Veneto 10
1150056 Montelupo Fiorentino FI
Italy
'About a Vase'. Ceramic Museum of Montelupo Exhibition 2018
WORKSHOP
CERAMIC AND DRAWING Workshop in Tuscany
2 - 7 September 2018
See https://www.robertcooper.net/ceramic-and-drawing-workshop-in-tuscany/
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