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Born 1953, Glossop, Derbyshire, UK. Elected RA
2001. Studied at Goldsmith’s College, London from 1971 to 1974 and the
Royal College of Art, London from 1974 to 1977. Visiting Lecturer at the
Royal College of Art and City & Guilds of London Art School since 1998.
Cooper's first solo exhibition was held in 1979 at the Air Galley,
London. Subsequent exhibitions were held throughout the UK including
Blond Fine Art, London (1982, 1983 and 1985), Artspace Gallery, Aberdeen
(1985), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (1986) and Artsite Gallery, Bath
(1987). equal exhibitions of her work were held at Benjamin Rhodes
Gallery from 1988 and at Art First, London from 1998. Cooper has
also participated in many group exhibitions, including 'New
Contemporaries', in 1974 and 1976, 'Hayward Annual', in 1982, the 'John
Moores Liverpool Exhibition', in 1986, and 'New British Painting', held
at the Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, in the United States. Among
the more recent group exhibitions which have included her work are
'Contemporary Art', at the Courtauld Institute, London (1993), 'Spirit
on the Staircase: 100 Yeas of Print Publishing', at the CA, V & A,
London (1996-7) and 'Private View', at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
(1998). Eileen Cooper lives and works in London. |