Eileen Cooper RA – Mothers Day

The tender caress between mother and child is a life affirming image of love. This new mulit–block woodcut print is hand printed onto Awagami bamboo Japanese paper and will be one of many new prints exhibited on Rabley Gallery’s Stand 28 at WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR this year.

WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR

20–24 November 2024

LONDON SE18 6HD

RABLEY GALLERY

Booth 28

New prints by represented artists:

Amy-Jane Blackhall, Eileen Cooper RA, Emma Stibbon RA, Ian Chamberlain, Sarah Gillespie, Katherine Jones RA, Lucy Farley, Sara Lee, Molly Martin, Neil Bousfield, Sadie Tierney.

Eileen Cooper’s work has often featured trees and flowers, which have an intense connection to her figures, stretching up into the air, but deeply rooted in the ground. Cooper’s subjects are underpinned by the complex question of human relationships.

Born in the Peak District in 1953, Cooper has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Her work is held in many public and private collections including as the Arts Council Collection; The British Museum; The Royal Collection; Victoria & Albert Museum; Tate Britain; National Portrait Gallery; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; Walpole Library, Yale University.

Studying first at Goldsmiths College (1971-74) and then at the Royal College of Art (1974-77). In 2000 Cooper was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010-17 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 since the RA began in 1768.

Due to the individual nature of each print, there maybe some slight colour variances to each print.