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Eileen Cooper

B. United Kingdom, 1953

The Works

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Eileen Cooper

Fall

1982

Pastel and conté on paper

2

Eileen Cooper

Footsteps

1980

Charcoal and pastel on paper

3

Eileen Cooper

Spies

1980

Conté on paper

4

Eileen Cooper

Close Up

1980

Conté on paper

5

Eileen Cooper

The Small Room

1979

Conté on paper

6

Eileen Cooper

Leap

1977

Pastel and conté on paper

7

Eileen Cooper

Handstand

1977

Pastel and conté on paper

8

Eileen Cooper

Sex and Love X

1982

Conté on paper

9

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Sex and Love III

1982

Conté on paper

10

Eileen Cooper

Sex and Love IV

1982

Pastel and conté on paper

11

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Sex and Love VI

1982

Conté on paper

12

Eileen Cooper

Sex and Love VII

1982

Conté on paper

13

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Sex and Love II

1982

Conté on paper

14

Eileen Cooper

Sex and Love I

1982

Pastel and conté on paper

15

Eileen Cooper

Tower

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

16

Eileen Cooper

Mirror

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

17

Eileen Cooper

Seeing

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

18

Eileen Cooper

Stages

1979

Charcoal, pastel and conté on paper

19

Eileen Cooper

In the Bath

1979

Charcoal and pastel on paper

20

Eileen Cooper

Small Reflection

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

21

Eileen Cooper

Landscape

1978

Conté on paper

22

Eileen Cooper

Hide

1978

Pastel and conté on paper

23

Eileen Cooper

Passion

1983

Pastel and conté on paper

24

Eileen Cooper

Seeing Me

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

25

Eileen Cooper

Couple

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

26

Eileen Cooper

Sinking

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

27

Eileen Cooper

Seeking

1979

Pastel and conté on paper

28

Eileen Cooper

Winter Sun

Oil on canvas

29

Eileen Cooper

The Wild Place

Oil on canvas

30

Eileen Cooper

Dream

Oil on canvas

31

Eileen Cooper

Daylight

Oil on canvas

32

Eileen Cooper

The Lily Pond

Oil on canvas

33

Eileen Cooper

Barefoot Runaways

Oil on canvas

34

Eileen Cooper

Take Five

2019

Oil on canvas

35

Eileen Cooper

Personal Space

2019

Oil on canvas

36

Eileen Cooper

Every Mother’s Son

2019

Oil on canvas

37

Eileen Cooper

Paper Doll

2012

Oil on canvas

38

Eileen Cooper

Run Rabbit Run

2013

Oil on canvas

39

Eileen Cooper

Float

2021

Oil on canvas

40

Eileen Cooper

Deep Water

2021

Oil on canvas

41

Eileen Cooper

Child

2019

Oil on canvas

Eileen Cooper

B. United Kingdom 1953

B. United Kingdom 1953

Biography

Eileen Cooper’s practice encompasses themes of fertility, sexuality, motherhood, life and death. Cooper’s work is centred on the female figure, animals and objects enter Cooper’s compositions, often playing symbolic or totemic roles. Her motif-filled imagery has often been described as magical realism, although she has cited Indian, Persian and Egyptian art as influences on her paintings. Her rich and expressionistic use of colour, as well as her use of strong and simplified line has been likened to the works of Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin, as well as to Expressionists Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

Eileen Cooper studied at Goldsmiths School of Art from 1971 until 1974, before completing an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 1977. She rose to prominence as an artist in the 1980s, during which time she also held teaching posts at both St Martins School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She became a Royal Academician in 2001 and served as Keeper of the Royal Academy between 2010 and 2017.

Cooper has been the subject of numerous publications, including Eileen Cooper: A Woman’s Skin by Meredith M Hale and Philip Lindley, and Eileen Cooper: Between the Lines by Martin Gayford. She has had numerous international exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts and Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Cooper curated and co-ordinated the Royal Academy of Arts’ 249th annual Summer Exhibition in 2017. Her work is held in several important collections including Tate, The National Portrait Gallery, The Arts Council Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The British Museum, London. In 2016, Cooper was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to Art and Art Education. She is an Honorary Fellow at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge, and the Royal College of Art; and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Southampton Solent University in 2014.

In 2022, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery held Parallel Lines: Eileen Cooper and Leicester’s Art Collection, a major survey exhibition that brought together – for the first time – works created throughout Cooper’s career presented in conversation with paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculpture from Leicester Museum and Art Gallery’s permanent collection. In November 2023 she will be included in Women in Revolt: Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 at Tate Britain.

Cooper lives and works in London.

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Exhibitions

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Eileen Cooper Installation View at Huxley-Parlour London, 3-5 Swallow Street. Exhibited in July 2023

Eileen Cooper: Ambivalence and Desire

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2022 Exhibition at Huxley-Parlour, Swallow Street, London. Eileen Cooper Somewhere or Other, 2022 Exhibition

Eileen Cooper: Somewhere or Other

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Eileen Cooper Huxley-Parlour Personal Space

Eileen Cooper: Personal Space

7.10 - 16.112019

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