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No full textCooper, Stephen, Off-line. 12 works exhibited at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne and The Winchester Gallery
Stephen Cooper an Installation
No full textCooper, Stephen, Stephen Cooper an Installation. 20 works exhibited at Panomara Gallery, Barcelona, 2001
Two but not two
No full textTwo But Not TwoThe Tunnel GalleryTonbridge SchoolTonbridge24th April – 12th May 2007An exhibition of new work by Stephen Cooper and James CockburnJames Cockburn and Stephen Cooper met and became friends in September 1971 at St Martin’s School of Art where they both were on the Foundation Course. Subsequently they both completed their first degrees in Fine Art at St Martin’s. James immediately began his teaching career and Stephen went on to the Royal College of Art to take his MA. Since then both have been engaged in both teaching and making their own work. At present James is teaching at Tonbridge School where, amongst other projects, he instigated The Tunnel Gallery and Stephen is at Winchester Art College where he is Head of Fine Art. He currently has a show at Southampton City Art Gallery.Both share a strong sense of playfulness in their work which nevertheless is carefully structured. Their inventions in a variety of materials, with sometimes chance results, puts discovery at the centre of their work. The title of the show indicates the riddle that is at the centre of all creativity.Stephen Cooper My work has been concerned with certain aspects of Japanese art, through historic print, architecture, landscape design and particular ideas of artifice. This was originally realised in a trip to Japan three years ago, that culminated in a project at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This has happily allowed me to pursue these ideas further in this current exhibition. I hope to create a dialogue between the elements of architecture; colour and painting through installation. In this recent body of work I was motivated by the relationship between Japanese print and contemporary digital printing and an awareness that authentic methods are gradually being replaced by digital processes, often with tawdry results. I use these tawdry results as material for collage; they help to form the work. Reflecting upon Japanese prints of the Floating World and speculating upon their lyrical beauty has given me a basis to form a tangential narrative of images in my work.James Cockburn These pots and drawings have been completed in the last two months mostly in France. The work has also been inspired by Japan. In 1995 a visitor from Japan gave me a a ceramic palette and a bottle of shellac ink with beautiful set of brushes. The latter are what I used to decorate the plates and bowls and to make the drawings. I was also influenced by the Zen Buddhist potters whose qualities of acceptance, generosity and a love of nature I much admired. Their pottery has a huge past and a living present which is the envy of many potters from around the world.I would like to thank once again my colleagues in the Art Department at Tonbridge School for all their help in mounting the show. In particular I would single out Brian Stenning for the speed and professionalism of his frame making. It has been a pleasure to work with them all."Two but not Two"consisted of an Exhibition at the Tunnel Gallery,part of The Tonbridge School, Tonbridge Wells, KentThis exhibition contrasted two artist work whose work dealt with interconnecting themes dealt concepts of time and nature and also across different ranges of mixed media, which includes painting drawing ceramics
Park avenue
No full text“Park Avenue”Southampton City Art Gallery23 October-7 December 2008,Southampton City Art GallerySouthampton SO147LPCurated by Stephen CooperThis show was curated by Stephen Cooper lecturer at Winchester School of Art who invited 5 other artists who graduated from Winchester School of Art who have become and becoming renown in the international art world. The artists were asked to respond to the City Gallery’s international collection by asking the artist’s to select one work from the collection and to create a new and original work, which in the exhibition is to be shown alongside the original.The exhibition was held from the 23rd October-7th December.Artists:Anna Barriball Danny RolphStephen Cooper Christian WardKatie Pratt Richard Wathen<br/
History
No full textHISTORY, a site-specific Installation by Stephen Cooper in the side chamber of Hyde Abbey Gate. Hyde, WinchesterMON 5TH April- MON. 3I MAY 2010Hyde Abbey Chamber is one of the last remains of the Hyde Abbey and is dated approximately 1,100.I was invited for this project to make a site specific painting that was to situated amongst this historic situation.The project has taken over a year to execute and will be running to the end of may.‘Statement“From the outset of this project, I wanted to set up a contrast between my work and the history and architecture of Hyde Abbey Gate Chamber. I did not wish to construct a narrative that illustrates the building’s history.“The building encloses an almost cubic space embedded with history, both past and contemporary; the graffiti, the contextual panels all adding to the character of this ancient site. My work attempts to make a comparison between the historical and the present. One of my central concerns is to map and integrate different spaces and ideas: a landscape is contrasted with a molecular system, which is in turn compared with a diagrammatic black hole. The fusing together of these spaces is involved in the art of imagining. I attempt to use a mixture of systems, the subjective and the distant, the personal and the objective, the autobiographical and the scientific.“For me, this project represents the placing of my work within the historic and the actual, and attempts to extend and embrace the question of memory, whether it is public or private, secular or sacred, or historic and imaginary.” Stephen Cooper, April 2010<br/
10 Days at the Laundry: an exhibition and series of events that celebrate creativity in Winchester
No full text"Ten Days at the Laundry"The Yard an artist studio collective curated an Exhibiton and Event at an alternative venue at the Hyde Laundry Premises in the heart of Winchester.This project brought together artists from different creative groups in Winchester in an sequence of events that cover a range of contrasting disciples never put together in Winchester before
Off at a tangent.
No full textComplimenting Japan: A Floating World in Print, this exhibition showcases Stephen Cooper's vibrantly-coloured paintings and installations, which are profoundly influenced by certain aspects of Japanese art, through historic print, architecture, landscape design and particular ideas of artifice. This has allowed the artist to pursue these ideas further in this current exhibition in the hope to create a dialogue between the elements of architecture; colour and painting through installation
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