Installation, painting, drawing and printmaking explore the point between dichotomies; internal/external, public/private, sinister/beauty. Domestic materials and objects sited in both galleries/marginal spaces (window ledges, cracks in floorboards), appear to intervene; to emerge from the fabric of the building/landscape. Often in series; hand-made; temporary, transitory, at times subjected to the
Installation, painting, drawing and printmaking explore the point between dichotomies; internal/external, public/private, sinister/beauty. Domestic materials and objects sited in both galleries/marginal spaces (window ledges, cracks in floorboards), appear to intervene; to emerge from the fabric of the building/landscape. Often in series; hand-made; temporary, transitory, at times subjected to the elements; to audience interaction. Influences: female, gender, social, cultural, domestic, temporary, minimalism, colour.
Gillian Cooper MA, BA (hons) Fine Art, PGCE
Born in London
Lives and works in Penwith, Cornwall
Solo exhibitions
2023 Nest, Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2004 - Inflorescence, Morvah Gallery, Cornwall
2001 - The Interior: Chaos into Matter, Transitions, Newlyn Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
1999 - Amnesia, installation, Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Oxford
1999 - Scission, installation, Produzentengalerie, Hannover, Germany
1997 - Dispersion, The Rainbow, performance, Bristol
1996 - Secretion, installation, Bristol
1995 - Featherweight, installation, Bristol Group exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2024/5 UN/NESTING, Residency/Exhibition, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Arts Council tbc
2024 Ghost Nest, exhibition tbc
2024 Draw Breath, The George Gallery, Newnham, Glos, group show
2024 Trio of Printmakers, The Old Coastguard, Penzance
2023 Penwith Gallery, Penwith Society of Artists
2023 Wells Contemporary Art Open, Nest, large drawing
2022 Solstice, Walking the Land
2022 NEST, Drawings & Prints, solo exhibition Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance
2021 Watermarks, on-line exhibition, Walking the Land at UHI Conference
2021 Walking the Landscape, Sancreed, Mayes Creative
2019 ‘Passing’, Installation, Sol Force, curator J Leroy Smith, Tremenheere Sculpture
Garden, Cornwall
2019 ‘Print’, Newlyn Society of Artists, Heseltine Gallery Truro
2017 Monochrome, Old Coastguard Mousehole
2017 Borders, Newlyn Society of Artists, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Gallery
2016 Critics Choice, Newlyn Society of Artists, Newlyn Art Gallery
2016 Gurnards Head Hotel Zennor, and Old Coastguard Hotel Mousehole, to date
2015 Prints and Ceramics, Mariners Gallery, St Ives
2013 Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Penzance
2012 Unframed, drawings at BUCCA, Newlyn
2011 Uncharted Landscape, St Ives/Newlyn Societies, Mariners Gallery, St Ives
2011 Print! The Exchange, Penzance
2010 Process & Place, Morvah Gallery
2010 Summer Print Show, Westcott’s Gallery, St Ives
2009 - Newlyn Society of Artists, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2008 - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2008 - Drawing the Line, Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance
2008 - Early Summer Mixed Show, Openspace Galleries, Penryn
2008 - Three Painters, Trereife House, Penzance
2007 - Lineage, Penlee Museum and Art Gallery, Penzance
2007 - Revolver, PZ Gallery, Penzance
2005 - New Members, Newlyn Society of Artists, Newlyn Gallery, Newlyn
2005 - Newlyn Society Critics Choice, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2004 - 60 Seconds (film), various retail venues, Penzance, Cornwall
2003 - Wish You Were Here, touring, Cornwall
2002 - Field of Vision, Penzance, Cornwall
2001 - Palpitations, Penzance
2001 - Station to Station, Spacex Gallery
2000 - International Sculpture Biennale, Pancevo, Serbia
2000 - Shed, Penzance 2000 - Work/Place, Bristol
1999 - Equinox, Cairn Gallery, Gloucestershire
1999 - Meanwhile, Belt, London
1998 - Bristol Art Library, New York, USA, UK
1998 - Hayvend, ICA, London 1998 - Out of Place, Bristol
1998 - Sarah Staton Superstore, Arnolfini, Bristol and Kunst Bregenz, Austria
1998 - Souvenirs, Museum Street, London Workshops
Curating
1999-2004 Curator, Penwith Artist Led Projects, Regional Lottery, Cornwall County
2003 out of place, Newlyn Gallery and related sites, Cornwall
2001 Spot: painting and site-specifity, UK, Icelandic and Dutch artists, touring miniature bookwork
1999-00 Littoral, European touring exhibition, France, Spain, Germany, UK, for Site, Space, Location, Place, Plymouth University funded
1999 Littoral, Maritime Museum, Exeter, for Site,Space,Location,Place, Plymouth University
1998 Please Touch and Daily News, Ute Heuer/Gerd Gockell, Hanover Artists, Konicus Gallery, Bristol, Goethe Institute/Nordbank/Hanover City Council funded
1998 AJAR, 12 Bristol-based artists, Konicus Gallery, Bristol, South West Arts funded
1998 out of place, Bristol, 18 local, national & international artists (interventions), Arts Council Lottery funded
1995 All Over the Shop, Clifton Arcade, Bristol, 14 artists: painting, installation and performance
Lecturing
Workshop leader, schools and Visiting Lecturer, Penwith College, MA Fine Art, Falmouth College of Art, MA Fine Art, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Experimental Life Drawing, Foundation, University of the West of England, Bristol
Consultancy
2005 Facilitator, Jyll Bradley, one person show, Arnolfini, Bristol
2000-1 Project Manager, Shen Yuan, residency, commission and one-person exhibition, Arnolfini, Bristol
2000 Year of the Artist selection, Somerset Art Week
1999 TAP, Artists Studios Development, Bristol
2000 Mentor/Trainer, Visual Artists Marketing and Business Development Scheme, Suffolk County Council
Publications
2008 Revolver Art Cornwall
2002 Catching the Wave, Contemporary Art & Artists in Cornwall, by Tom Cross