Eileen Cooper
Talk Art

Eileen Cooper

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 10, 202658 min

Robert meets painter Eileen Cooper RA to discuss her new London solo exhibition Learning to Fly, whilst also exploring her evolution across numerous bodies of work made across the past 5 decades. World renowned for her work as a painter and printmaker, Cooper also embraces drawing, collage, ceramics, and sculpture in her expansive practice. Eileen Cooper was born 1953 in Glossop, in the Derbyshire Peak District. Having studied at Goldsmith’s College, Cooper completed her Master of Arts in Painting at Royal College of Art in 1977. Throughout her career Cooper’s work has contained a strong autobiographical element. Howev...

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Good afternoon, good evening, good morning, wherever you are in the world. My name is Robert Dioment and you're listening to Talk Art. Welcome to Talk Art. Today I am feeling magical. And that is a slight reference to what some people have called today's guest's work, five decades of exploring the female experience through

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autobiographical references and also referencing mythology. But there is this kind of term of magical realism, which is a really beautiful idea, I think, because it brings to mind the kind of every day, which could be seen as a very mundane thing in many ways, but sort of making it magical or having supernatural elements involved. So it kind of really helps

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to tell stories. And I think it really helps viewers of the paintings and of artworks generally to kind of access it as some kind of escapist realm maybe. And I think it just is a really wonderful kind of movement in a way and style. And today's guest has been, as I said, making work for more than five decades. And it's someone that I kind of grew up being familiar with through

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