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British artist
Eileen Cooper
OBE
RA
(born 10 June 1953) is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker.
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Early life
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Cooper was born in
Glossop
,
Derbyshire
and attended Ashton-under-Lyne College of Further Education. She went on to study at
Goldsmiths College
(1971-1974) and the
Royal College of Art
(1974-1977) gaining an MA in painting.
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Career
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Between 1977 and 2000 she was visiting lectures at arts schools across the UK including
Falmouth School of Art
,
Leicester College
of Art & Design,
St Martin’s School of Art
,
Camberwell College of Arts
, and
City & Guilds of London Art School
. She lectured on Printmaking at the
Royal College of Art
between 1994 and 2006 and became Head of Printmaking at the
Royal Academy Schools
in 2005 until 2010.
She was elected a Royal Academician in 2001.
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From 2010 to 2017, Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, one of only 4 officers selected from the 80 Royal Academicians, and with primary responsibility for the
Royal Academy Schools
, thereby becoming the first woman to be elected to this role in the Royal Academy's 250-year history.
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In 2017, Cooper curated and co-ordinated the Royal Academy of Arts' 249th annual Summer Exhibition.
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After ending her teaching role at the Royal Academy Schools in 2017 Cooper returned to drawing from life and portraiture in particular. Two of the works from this series (one of fellow Royal Academician
Cathie Pilkington
and the other a
self-portrait
)
were acquired by the
National Portrait Gallery
.
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Selected solo exhibitions
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- 2019
Personal Space
, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London
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- 2018
Under the Same Moon
, Letitia Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
- 2017
Till the Morning Comes
, The Fine Art Society, London
- 2017
Eileen Cooper: A Woman's Skin
, Wolfson College,
University of Cambridge
- 2016
Between the Lines
, Galerie MIRO, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2015
Hide and Seek: Work on Paper 1977-2014
,
Royal Academy of Arts
, London (touring to
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
; The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate)
- 2015
In the Garden
, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wiltshire
- 2013
Edge to Edge
, Art First, London
- 2012 South Lookout Project, Aldeburgh Beach, Suffolk
- 2010
Collages
,
Royal Academy of Arts
, London
- 2008
Taking Stock: The Printmaking of Eileen Cooper RA
,
Clifford Chance
, London and
Liverpool Hope University
- 2000
Raw Material: Eileen Cooper at Dulwich Picture Gallery
,
Dulwich Picture Gallery
, London
- 1999
Second Skin: Eileen Cooper in the 80s and 90s
travelling exhibition (Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Eastbourne)
- 1994
Eileen Cooper at Sadlers Wells
, Sadlers Wells Theatre, London
- 1992
Drawings
, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
- 1986
Castlefield Gallery
, Manchester
- 1979 AIR Gallery, London
Selected group exhibitions
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- 1997-2018 Regular exhibitor at Summer Exhibition,
Royal Academy of Arts
, London
- 2018
Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus
,
Royal West of England Academy
, Bristol
- 2016
Towards Night
, curated by Tom Hammick,
Towner Art Gallery
, Eastbourne
- 2015
She Came to Stay
, curated by Aretha Campbell and Lucy Farley,
Rook and Raven Gallery
, London
- 2015
Good Figures
, Mall Galleries, London, Jerwood Gridshell Space,
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
- 2014
Jerwood Drawing Prize 1994-2014: Artist as Selector
,
Jerwood Gallery
, Hastings
- 2012/13
Encounter:
The Royal Academy in the Middle East
, Doha
- 2012
Encounter:
The Royal Academy in Asia
,
Institute of Contemporary Arts
, Singapore
- 2004
The Jerwood Drawing Prize
,
Jerwood Space
, London
- 1993
Contemporary Art at the Courtauld,
Courtauld Institute of Art
, London
- 1992
The New Patrons: Twentieth Century Art from Corporate Collections
,
Christie's
, London
- 1992
Myth, Dream and Fable
, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
- 1992
Innocence and Experience
,
South Bank Centre
, London,
Manchester Art Gallery
, Hull and Glasgow
- 1988
The New British Painting
,
Contemporary Arts Center
, Cincinnati; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center;
Haggerty Museum
, Milwaukee;
South-eastern Center for Contemporary Art
, Winston-Salem;
Grand Rapids Art Museum
, Michigan
- 1986 John Moores,
Walker Art Gallery
, Liverpool
- 1985
Hand Signals
,
Ikon Gallery
, Birmingham
- 1984
The Image as Catalyst
,
Ashmolean Museum
, Oxford
- 1982, 1983, 1987
Whitechapel Open
,
Whitechapel Art Gallery
, London
- 1980
Women's Images of Men
,
Institute of Contemporary Art
, London
- 1974-76
New Contemporaries
,
Camden Arts Centre
, London
Selected public collections
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- Arts Council Collection
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- Government Art Collection
, UK
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- Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
- Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
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- British Museum, London
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- Dallas Museum of Art, USA
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- Imperial College, London
- Kunsthalle, Nuremberg
, Germany
- Manchester Art Gallery
- MIMA
, Middlesbrough
- National Portrait Gallery
, London
[6]
- New Hall Art Collection
,
Murray Edwards College
,
University of Cambridge
[8]
- Newport Museum and Art Gallery
, Wales
- The Open University
[8]
- Pallant House Gallery
, Chichester
- Royal Academy of Arts
, London
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- The
Royal Collection Trust
- Royal College of Art
, London
- Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust
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- Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
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- The Towner Art Gallery
, Eastbourne
- Victoria & Albert Museum
, London
- University of Warwick
Art Collection
- Lewis Walpole Library
, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
- Whitworth Art Gallery
, Manchester
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- Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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Awards and honours
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- 2018:
Glyndebourne Opera
Invited Artist
- 2009 & 2017: Co-ordinator and curator,
Royal Academy of Arts
Summer Exhibition
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- 2016
: Appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
(OBE) for services to the Arts and Arts Education
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- 2016: Made Honorary Fellow,
Murray Edwards College
,
University of Cambridge
- 2013: Made Honorary Doctor of Arts,
Southampton Solent University
- 2011: Made Honorary Fellow,
Royal College of Art
, London
- 2011: Elected Keeper of the
Royal Academy of Arts
, first woman elected to the post since its foundation in 1768
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- 2010, 2013: Artist in Residence, Alayrac, Tarn France
- 2008-09: Artist in Residence,
Lewisham College
, London
- 2006: Made Fellow of the
Royal College of Art
- 2002: Made Honorary Member,
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
- 2001: Elected Royal Academician
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- 1999:
Arts & Humanities Research Council
Award for ceramics
- 1998-99: Artist in Residence
Dulwich Picture Gallery
, London
- 1992: Staircase project
Institute of Contemporary Art
, London
- 1982: Purchase Prize, Nuremberg Drawing Triennial
Publications
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- Under the Same Moon
by Anna McNay, Letitia Gallery, Beirut, 2018
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- Eileen Cooper: A Woman's Skin
by Meredith M Hale and Philip Lindley, Wolfson College,
University of Cambridge
, 2017
ASIN
B0843RRZCR
- Eileen Cooper: Till the Morning Comes
by
Michele Roberts
,
The Fine Art Society
, London, 2017
ISBN
9781907052880
- Eileen Cooper: Between the Lines
by Martin Gayford, Royal Academy of Arts, 2015
ISBN
1907533621
,
978-1907533624
- Hide and Seek: Work on Paper 1977-2014
by Anna McNay, Royal Academy of Arts, 2015
- The New British Painting
by
Edward Lucie-Smith
,
Carolyn Cohen
and Judith Higgins, Phaidon, Oxford, 1988
- Contemporary Women Artists
by
Sister Wendy Beckett
, Oxford, 1988
ISBN
0876636911
,
978-0876636916
- Trans Avant Garde International: New Painting in Britain
by
Achille Bonito Oliva
, Milan, 1982
Television and broadcast
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- In the Studio
film by
Charlie Paul
, 2015
- Art School, Smart School
, BBC Radio 4 documentary, produced by Just Radio Ltd, 20 November 2014
- Women Artists
interview with Emma Jane Kirby for ‘PM’, BBC Radio 4, 28 August 2014
- What I See Project
, film, 2013
- A Story of Eileen Cooper, Artist and Keeper of the Royal Academy’
, [www.ladieswhoimpress.com Ladieswholmpress], 17 October 2013
- Woman's Hour
, BBC Radio 4, 2012
- Art School Education
interview by Alexander Massouras for Tate Library & Archive, 16 September 2010
- Inside Art
documentary series, Channel 4, 1994 (BAFTA nominated)
- The Art
documentary, BBC Education, 1993
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