Eileen Cooper RA – Dawn Chorus

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Eileen Cooper’s themes are both personal and universal, often referencing mythology, with its protagonist symbolic of universal truths: love, relationships, vanity, vulnerability. The human figure remains a constant presence in her work often accompanied by a symbolic companion: a cat, a tiger, a ladder, a boat. More recently a return to drawing from life has underpinned a parallel body of work with drawings of those who have touched her life.

Eileen Cooper has had a long and celebrated career both as a painter and printmaker. Her work is in many museum collections, including: (UK) Tate; National Portrait Gallery; Victoria and Albert Museum; British Museum; The Royal Collection; The Hepworth Wakefield; (USA) Walpole Library, Yale University;  Dallas Museum of Art.

Elected Royal Academician in 2000 and Keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts (2010-2017), she was awarded an OBE in 2016 and was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.