Eileen Cooper


Eileen Cooper is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker.
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Early life

Cooper was born in Glossop, Derbyshire and attended Ashton-under-Lyne College of Further Education. She went on to study at Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art gaining an MA in painting.

Career

Between 1977 and 2000 she was visiting lectures at arts schools across the UK including Falmouth School of Art, Leicester College of Art & Design, St Martin’s School of Art, Camberwell College of Arts, and City & Guilds of London Art School. She lectured on Printmaking at the Royal College of Art between 1994 and 2006 and became Head of Printmaking at the Royal Academy Schools in 2005 until 2010.
She was elected a Royal Academician in 2001. From 2010 to 2017, Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, one of only 4 officers selected from the 80 Royal Academicians, and with primary responsibility for the Royal Academy Schools, thereby becoming the first woman to be elected to this role in the Royal Academy's 250-year history.
In 2017, Cooper curated and co-ordinated the Royal Academy of Arts' 249th annual Summer Exhibition.
After ending her teaching role at the Royal Academy Schools in 2017 Cooper returned to drawing from life and portraiture in particular. Two of the works from this series ''' were acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.

Selected exhibitions

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Group

Selected public collections

Awards and honours

Publications

Under the Same Moon by Anna McNay, Letitia Gallery, Beirut, 2018Eileen Cooper: A Woman's Skin by Meredith M Hale and Philip Lindley, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 2017 Eileen Cooper: Till the Morning Comes by Michèle Roberts, The Fine Art Society, London, 2017 Eileen Cooper: Between the Lines by Martin Gayford, Royal Academy of Arts, 2015 Hide and Seek: Work on Paper 1977-2014 by Anna McNay, Royal Academy of Arts, 2015The New British Painting by Edward Lucie-Smith, Carolyn Cohen and Judith Higgins, Phaidon, Oxford, 1988 Contemporary Women Artists by Sister Wendy Beckett, Oxford, 1988 Trans Avant Garde International: New Painting in Britain by Achille Bonito Oliva, Milan, 1982

Television and broadcast

In the Studio film by, 2015Art School, Smart School, BBC Radio 4 documentary, produced by Just Radio Ltd, 20 November 2014Women Artists interview with Emma Jane Kirby for ‘PM’, BBC Radio 4, 28 August 2014
  • , film, 2013A Story of Eileen Cooper, Artist and Keeper of the Royal Academy’,, 17 October 2013Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 2012Art School Education interview by Alexander Massouras for Tate Library & Archive, 16 September 2010Inside Art documentary series, Channel 4, 1994 The Art documentary, BBC Education, 1993