Jim Cooper (ceramicist)
Jim Cooper | |
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| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Westport, New Zealand |
| Education | 1984 Otago Polytechnic 1st year of Ceramics Certificate |
| Known for | Ceramic artist |
| Notable work | Sgt P,Millbrook Holiday (the League for Spiritual Discovery) |
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Jim Cooper (born 1956) is a New Zealand potter.
Career
Cooper was born in Westport, New Zealand on the West Coast of the South Island in 1956, and attended Buller High School.[1]
He studied ceramics at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 1984 and 1989, but did not "get a ticket";[2] he returned and completed a Masters of Fine Arts there in 1999.[1][3] Cooper studied under Neil Grant while at Otago Polytechnic and acknowledges him as a mentor.[1] After graduating, he taught for some time at the Polytechnic.[4]
Cooper has worked in ceramics since the early 1980; his earliest works in 1982 were vessels.[2] He then began creating heads and torsos of free-standing figures and relief sculptures.[1]
One of his major works is Sgt P, a ceramic installation loosely inspired by the album art of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles.[5] The installation, made up of more than 100 ceramic figures, cardboard cut-outs and drawings, was shown at The Dowse Art Museum in 2007 and then toured to Tauranga, Rotorua and Auckland.[5]
Recognition
Cooper won the McSkimming Award in 1984. In 1996 he was a finalist in the New Ceramics and Glass Awards.[2] He won first place in the Norsewear Art Awards in 2006 for his work Snowy from Cavy.[5] His exhibition 'Peppermints and Incense' was held at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 2008–2009.[5] He was named joint winner of the Portage Ceramic Awards in 2009 and was awarded the Premier Award in 2012 for his 30-piece installation Millbrook Holiday (the League for Spiritual Discovery).[3][6]
References
- ^ a b c d Schamroth, Helen (1998). 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Auckland: Godwit Press. ISBN 978-1869620363.
- ^ a b c Keene, Howard (17 September 1997). "Victims of Life". The Press. p. 13.
- ^ a b "Top clay artist on campus" (5 November 2009). The Bay Chronicle. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ Fox, Rebecca (27 February 2020). "Cooper embraces change in direction". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d Elliott, Moyra (Summer 2008). "Record covers I have known". Art News. 28 (4): 50–53. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ Benson, Nigel (27 October 2012). "Premier award to Dunedin ceramist". Otago Daily Times. Allied Press Limited. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
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