School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Emmanuel Cooper

Born: 1938, UK, England, Derbyshire   Died: 2012

Born in a Derbyshire mining area, he trained at Hornsey College of Art and set up his own pottery in 1963 in London, where he has lived and worked every since. Although best known as a writer and lecturer, he has always maintained his practice producing thrown and modelled porcelain and stoneware. His work is characterized by clean, neat and functional forms, allied with Bernard Leach's concept of the primacy of form over decoration, although in appearance they are much closer to the work of Lucie Rie. Initially focused on tablewares, he now specializes in individual pieces, especially bowl and jug forms, distinguished by a range of innovative glazes in white, turquoise and yellow. Cooper has been chair of the Craft Potters Association and was one of the founding editors of Ceramic Review in 1970 a role in which he continues overseeing a magazine that has expanded in its role and significance for over thirty years. An influential and extensive writer and broadcaster on the arts, his books include A Thousand Years of Pottery and a biography of Bernard Leach (2002) as well as works on working class art and homo-erotic art and photography.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Bowl] C1146 Ceramics




 
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