Emmanuel Cooper
Emmanuel Cooper (1938 – 2012) was a distinguished potter, former editor of Ceramic Review, Visiting Professor, Ceramic and Glass, at the Royal College of Art and Guest Curator of Applied Art, Tate St Ives.
‘My work is influenced by the urban city environment, by such things as hard, textured surfaces, by street lighting, traffic lights, endless movement and sense of urgency. Colours are those of roads, pavements and building, textures those we encounter in the metropolis. The pots are thrown on the wheel, but more recently they are hand-built by coiling. All the work is fired to 1260˚C in an electric kiln.’ – Emmanuel Cooper
EDUCATION
1961 – 1962 Hornsey College of Art
1960 – 1961 Bournemouth College of Art
1958 – 1960 Dudley Training College
Ph D Middlesex University 1996
TRAINING
Gwyn Hanssen, London studio, 1963, La Borne, France, 1970
Bryan Newman, Dulwich studio, 1964
LECTURING
Senior lecturer (associate) – Middlesex University 1974 – 1997
Visiting lecturer, Camberwell School of Art, Central/St Martins School of Art, Goldsmiths’ College, Visiting Professor, Royal College of Art, 2000-
AUTHOR (selected list)
Ten Thousand Years of Pottery, British Museum Press, London, 2000
Lucie Rie, (editor) Ceramic Review Publishing, London, 2002
Bernard Leach: Life and Work, Yale University Press, 2003.
MAJOR ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2011 – Beaux Arts, Bath
2009 – Beaux Arts, Bath
2006 – Beaux Arts, Bath
2004 – Beaux Arts, Bath
2004 – Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
2003 – Fine Art Society
2002 – Ruthin Craft Centre
2002 – White Gallery, Hove
2000 – Galerie L, Hamburg
2000 – Beaux Arts, Bath
1996 – Ruthin Crafts Centre (and continuing national tour)
1992 – Sense of Space: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
1990 – Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery
1990 – Southampton Art Gallery
1990 – New Work: Contemporary Ceramics, London
1989 – New Work: Leigh Gallery, London
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Scottish Museum, Warwick University
Potteries Art Gallery and Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Williamson Art Gallery,
Aberystwyth Art Centre, Allen Galley, Alton, Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery
Cleveland Craft Centre, Philadelphia Museum of Art.