jessica cooper rwa b. 1967
STUDIED
1985-1986
Falmouth School of Art : Cornwall : Foundation Course Diploma.
1986-1989
Goldsmiths College : London : B. A. Hons Fine Art and Textiles.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
life without words : the stour gallery : warwickshire.
2011
a place to be : hart gallery : london.
2010
interior exterior : the stour gallery : warwickshire.
because I love to pAINT : edgar modern : bath.
2009
On The Ramp Wall : The Exchange : Cornwall.
The Certainty Of Uncertainty : Hart Gallery : London.
Eclectic And The Sea : Badcocks Gallery : Cornwall.
2008
In Between Lines : Edgar Modern : Bath.
One View : Penhaven Gallery : Cornwall.
New Paintings : The Stour Gallery : Warwickshire.
2007
Martin Tinney Gallery : Cardiff.
Tell Me A Story : Badcocks Gallery : Cornwall.
2006
Edgar Modern : Bath.
The Stour Gallery : Warwickshire.
2005
To France : Italy And Then Home : Thompsons Galleries : London.
Newlyn Now : Badcocks Gallery : Cornwall.
2004
The Stour Gallery : Warwickshire.
2003
Thompsons Galleries : London.
Painting Eden : Badcocks Gallery : Cornwall.
2001
Recent Paintings : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1998
The Great Atlantic Mapworks : Cornwall.
1996
The Great Atlantic Mapworks : Cornwall.
1995
The Hypatia Trust : Cornwall.
1989
Local View : Bread Street Gallery : Cornwall.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
london art fair (edgar modern) :
The Business Design Centre : London.
20/21 international art fair (belgrave gallery) : royal college of art : london.
2011
five by five : the exchange : cornwall.
159 autumn exhibition : rwa : bristol.
20/21 international art fair (belgrave gallery) : royal college of art : london.
print (nsa) : the exchange : cornwall.
soul : josie eastwood fine art : hampshire.
in abundance : kestle barton : cornwall.
summer waves : belgrave gallery : cornwall.
the quality of things : gwynedd museum and art gallery : wales.
the picture room : newlyn art gallery : cornwall.
2010
london art fair (edgar modern) :
The Business Design Centre : London.
finalistS national open art exhibition : the minerva theatre : chichester.
158 autumn exhibition : rwa : bristol.
salmagundi : belgrave gallery : cornwall.
2009
Belgrave Gallery : Cornwall.
157 Autumn Exhibition : RWA : Bristol.
Double Vision (NSA) : The Exchange : Cornwall.
London Art Fair (Edgar Modern) : The Business Design Centre : London.
A Cornish Perspective (NSA) : RWA : Bristol.
2008
Working Small (NSA) Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Call Back Auction : The Exchange : Cornwall.
The Drawing Room 11 : RWA : Bristol.
150@150 Exhibition : RWA : Bristol.
London Art Fair (Edgar Modern) : The Business Design Centre : London.
2007
Art Now Cornwall : Tate St. Ives : Cornwall.
A Postcard From St. Ives : Belgrave Gallery : Cornwall.
London Art Fair (Edgar Modern) : The Business Design Centre : London.
Margins : Sherborne House : Dorset.
St. Ives 1975-2005 Art Colony In Transition : Martins Gallery : Cheltenham.
2006
Colour And Chemistry : Sherborne House : Dorset.
From The Edge : Sherborne House : Dorset.
London Art Fair (Edgar Modern) : The Business Design Centre : London.
2005
Three Person Show : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Critics Choice (NSA) Norbert Lynton : Lemon Street Gallery : Cornwall.
Drawing (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Stoneman and Pease : The Coningsby Gallery : London.
153 Autumn Exhibition : RWA : Bristol.
Open Painting Exhibition. : RWA : Bristol.
London Art Fair (Thompsons) : The Business Design Centre : London.
2004
Platform 100 : ING Bank in association with the Discerning Eye : London.
Critics Choice (NSA) John Russell Taylor : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
The Cornish Show : Thompsons Galleries : London.
ID (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : cornwall.
London Art Fair (Thompsons) : The Business Design Centre : London.
Open Painting Exhibition : RWA : Bristol.
2003
New Artists : Martin Tinney Gallery : Cardiff.
Critics Choice (NSA) Joan Bakewell : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
From The Heart (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
London Art Fair (Thompsons) : The Business Design Centre : London.
2002
Critics Choice (NSA) Mel Gooding : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Two Person Show : Stour Gallery : Warwickshire.
The Cornish Show : Thompsons Galleries : London.
The Other Hand (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
London Art Fair (Thompsons) : The Business Design Centre : London.
2001
Behind the Canvas touring exhibition : The Great Atlantic Mapworks : Cornwall.
Critics Choice (NSA) David Falconer : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Three Person Show : Thompsons Galleries : London.
Three Person Show : Badcocks Gallery : Cornwall.
The Dividing Line (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
London Art Fair (Thompsons) : The Business Design Centre : London.
2000
Critics Choice (NSA) Charlotte Mullings : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
The British Show : Lemon Street Gallery : Cornwall.
Three Person Show : Lemon Street Gallery : Cornwall.
Three Person Show : Rainyday Gallery : Cornwall.
The Light Show (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1999
Living On The Line : Botallack Count House : Cornwall.
Freelance Exhibition : Tate St. Ives : Cornwall.
The British Show : Lemon Street Gallery : Cornwall.
The Cornish Show : Thompsons Galleries : London.
Three Person Show : Rainyday Gallery : Cornwall.
Off The Wall (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1998
Boxes (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Three Person Show : Rainyday Gallery : Cornwall.
Critics Choice (NSA) Theo Waddington : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1997
The Art Colony At St. Just : White Lane Gallery : Devon.
Three Person Show : Rainyday Gallery : Cornwall.
Freelance Exhibition : Tate St. Ives : Cornwall.
1996
Three Person Show : Rainyday Gallery : Cornwall.
Drawings Towards The End Of A Century (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Freelance Exhibition : Tate St. Ives : Cornwall.
1994
Freelance Exhibition : Tate St. Ives : Cornwall.
1993
22 Painters Who Happen To Be Women : Porthmeor Gallery : Cornwall.
Eight Young Artists : Rainyday Gallery : Cornwall.
1990
Open House : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1989
21 Degrees : The Slaughterhouse : London.
MISCELLANEOUS GALLERIES
2009-ongoing
Belgrave Gallery : Cornwall.
2007-ongoing
josie eastwood fine art : hampshire.
2006-ongoing
Hart Gallery : London.
2004-ongoing
Edgar Modern : Bath.
2004-2010
Martin Tinney Gallery : Cardiff.
2003-2010
Badcocks gallery : Cornwall.
2002-ongoing
The Stour Gallery : Warwickshire.
2001-2005
New Millennium Gallery : Cornwall.
Thompsons Galleries : Aldeburgh and London.
2000-2006
Art For Interiors : London.
1999-ongoing
Beyond The Sea : Cornwall.
1999-2009
Penhaven Gallery : Cornwall.
1996-2001
The Great Atlantic Mapworks : Cornwall.
1996-1999
Penwith Gallery : Cornwall.
1993-2000
Rainyday Gallery : Cornwall.
projects
2012
collaboration with arbor : limited edition t-shirt (1000) : usa.
www.arborcollective.com
film commissioned for exhibition : life without words : jacob yarwood.
poetry commissioned for exhibition : life without words : michael lay.
2011
freelance curator : the old dairy : cornwall.
SELECTED FEATURES
2011
featured in the surfer's path magazine ( issue 82 ) : www.surferspath.com
finalist : the art range : jessica cooper with art press publishing :
the henries awards : london.
2009
Interview for Penwith Radio : www.penwithradio.co.uk
2007-ongoing
Elected as an RWA Academician : Royal West of England Academy : Bristol.
Art Cornwall interviews and listings : www.artcornwall.org
2005-ongoing
Elected as a member of the Council of Management
(Vice Chair 2005-2012) : Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange : Cornwall.
2005
Painted Cast touring exhibition (cast of Adelina Taylor) for The Lavender Trust and Keep A Breast organisations : The Roxy World Surf Tour.
Lecture for the Friends of the RWA : RWA : Bristol.
Lecture for Creative Skills : Prussia Cove : Cornwall.
2004-2008
Member of the Creative and Cultural Industries Team : Creative Kernow Partnership Group : Cornwall.
2003
Featured in the Friends Magazine (Issue 10) : The Eden Project : Cornwall.
Lecture to accompany the touring exhibition Creating A Splash : The Usher Gallery : Lincoln.
2002
Profile for the BBC : www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall
2001
Lecture to accompany the exhibition Recent Paintings : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1999-2005
Elected as a Committee Member (Vice Chair 2003-05) for the Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1999
Exhibition and Publication Co-ordinator for Living On The Line : Botallack Count House : Cornwall.
1998
Commission for a poster for National Galleries Week by
South West Arts.
Commission for a limited edition mug by Tate St. Ives : Cornwall :
In stock (1998-ongoing).
Interview for Radio Cornwall.
1997
Interview for BBC regional news.
Interview for Radio Cornwall.
Commission for the book cover Exiles by Jacinta Bell : Parthian.
1996-ongoing
Made an Associate Member of the Penwith Society Of Artists.
1995-ongoing
Made a Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA).
1994
Interview for HTV regional news
1990
Interview for Radio Cornwall.
SELECTED EDUCATION WORK
1999-2009
Free-lance Artist with the Tate St. Ives and The Exchange and Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
2005-2008
Mentor for Creative Skills and Tate St Ives
for the Graduate Mentoring Scheme.
2003
Course tutor to accompany the exhibition Painting Eden :
The Eden Project : Cornwall.
2001-2004
Tutor for the course the Figurative to Abstract (Parts one to five) : Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
1999
Design of Gallery Activity Packs for the Education Programme :
Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
Residential tutor for the course the Representational to Abstract : Dartington Hall : Devon.
1998
Design of Gallery Activity Packs for the Education Programme :
Tate St. Ives : Cornwall.
1997
Cover post for the
Education Co-ordinator : St. Ives International (SII) and Newlyn Art Gallery : Cornwall.
AWARDS
2005
Open Painting Exhibition : Highly Commended Award : RWA : Bristol..
Drawing Quarters Award : University of the West of England : Bristol.
PUBLICATIONS
2011
a place to be : catalogue foreword by sam bleakley : hart gallery.
first release of greetings cards (12) : art press publishing.
Dictionary of International Biography : 36th edition : IBC.
2010
World Who’s Who Of Women (15th Edition ) : IBC publishing.
interior exterior : catalogue foreword by
alex wade : the stour gallery.
BECAUSE I LOVE TO PAINT : CATALOGUE FOREWORD BY CAROL COOPER :
EDGAR MODERN.
2009
along the same lines : Richard Hawkins and Jessica Cooper :
JC publishing.
Dictionary of International Biography : 35th edition : IBC.
The Certainty of Uncertainty : catalogue foreword by
Elizabeth Knowles OBE : Hart Gallery.
2008
Who’s Who In Art : 33rd Edition : Charles Baile de Laperriere : Hilmarten Manor Press.
In Between Lines : catalogue foreword by Anne L. Cowe phD :
Edgar Modern.
New Paintings : catalogue foreword by Nicholas Usherwood :
The Stour Gallery.
2007
Art Now Cornwall : introduction and text by Susan Daniel-McElroy and Sara Hughes : Tate publishing.
Ten Cards : introduction by Sarah Stoten : limited edition (500) independent publication. ( sold out )
St. Ives 1975-2005 Art Colony In Transition by Peter Davies :
St. Ives Printing and Publishing Co.
2006
Catalogue introduction by Chloe Wild : The Stour Gallery.
2003
Reading Between The Lines 1993-2003 : foreword by
Elizabeth Knowles OBE : limited edition (sold out)
independent publication.
2003
Catching The Wave by Tom Cross : Halsgrove.
2002
ARTNSA : the Newlyn Society Of Artists : NSA publishing
2001
Behind The Canvas by Sarah Brittain and Simon Cook : Truran.
1999
Living On The Line : independent publication (sold out).
1996
Drawings Towards The End Of A Century : the Newlyn Society Of Artists NSA publishing.
1993
22 Painters Who Happen To Be Women by Marion Whybrow.
COLLECTIONS
Art collection (publications) : cornwall council libraries : cornwall.
Royal West of England Academy : Bristol.
Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange : Cornwall.
The Hypatia Trust : Cornwall.
Slaughter and May : London.
st. enodoc hotel : cornwall.
Private : national and international.
photograph by ben yarwood
