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2017 . galleries magazine . april issue

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2016 . st ives times and echo

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2015 . cornwall today . review . the fabric unrolls

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2015 – 2017 . venice 22

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2015 – 2017 venice 22 product range designed exclusively for square + circle   a specific series of designs inspired by  venice beach , los angeles and my childhood garden , west penwith          

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2014 – 2017 . tate

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2014 – 2017 tate product range designed exclusively for tate ives available from tate st ives and online at www.shop.tate.org.uk   a specific series of designs that evoke both the past and the present of st ives

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gallery 16 + 17

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jessica cooper  rwa  b 1967 cv  2014 – 2021 solo exhibitions 2020 reflecting images . belgrave gallery . cornwall 2019 introducing the new . edgar modern . london 2018 the intimate landscape . belgrave st ives . cornwall it doesn’t … find out more

2017 . edgar modern . visual

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2017 . edgar modern . text

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the view from here i was sitting in a room that looked out on to a garden and a stillness filled me an extract from ‘ on time for once ‘ brian pattern the mersey sound 1967 the entirety of … find out more

2017 . kestle barton . visual

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2017 . kestle barton . film

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2017 . kestle barton . text

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….   but plastic is beautiful …   what if it were possible for a work to be conceived beyond the self, a work that allowed us to escape the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only in order to … find out more

2016 . belgrave gallery . visual

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2016 . belgrave gallery . text

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One Divided By Two In her first solo exhibition for Belgrave St Ives ‘About Home’ Jessica Cooper explored repeated journeys made between her home in the far west of Cornwall and St Ives as a metaphor for life; evoking memories … find out more

2014 . belgrave gallery . essay

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2014  belgrave gallery about home ismay atkins Like the comic silence that treads a thrilling fine line; the pregnant pause in a bar of music; the short line of poetry that gathers emotion in refrain, Jessica Cooper’s apparent simplicity on … find out more

2014 . edgar modern . essay

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edgar modern  2014 just turn left olivia mcewan Jessica Cooper RWA searches for the quiet, core vitality of things. Everyday objects and shapes are represented via their most essential outlines and details, rendered with a perception and confidence of stroke … find out more

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2015 . newlyn art gallery . visual

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2015 . newlyn art gallery . text

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venice 22 a series of designs inspired by a walk along venice beach in los angeles . i made a set of drawings and chose two to translate into fabric and paper venice film is based upon a short film … find out more

2015 . the stour gallery . visual

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2015 . the stour gallery . essay

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the four corners of the world plus one…

A formula has been drawn up… a framework for her to work within. She has made a line around herself and the world…
The four corners of the world plus one…’plus one’ because you can never get it all in the initial framework… there is always the exception…The anomaly here is case and point.

She told me about this framework months ago… for months I have watched it being filled in – like a school girl with a colouring book both in the tedious classroom and out on a glorious field trip. She has spent her time painting the canvases she laid out to complete. She has made explicit an inherent part of her professional practice – of setting about the business of producing a body of work…

How does she approach the task? She makes a structure to rein in a seemingly infinite amount of possibilities… in order to focus on a few of them and actually manifest them into paintings… and a show.

She has told me the framework many times, patiently going over it… excitedly expounding about it, fearfully fretting through it and blazingly triumphing over it… and yet I struggle simply to remember it.

Here I am now… at the thin end of the line… on the wire as it were… and I am clumsily trying to fit the puzzle pieces together – to remember the order, the categories – was it 5 canvases in four corners plus one? Or four canvases in 5 corners – were the chairs in the first corner or the last – are the houses in the plus one or the fourth? See how I run…?

But it doesn’t matter really – make of it what you will.The framework is a convention.A hanger to display the garment… the garment is her artful offering – the canvases themselves – the paint, the patience, the insight, the wit, the humour… it is all there in the paintings to see.

She can make as many categories as she likes – she can fill as many corners as it takes… underlying the garment of canvases, lies the body of her work – the substance of it all: her own being in this world and the mission to take meaning from it, to make meaning of it; and in so doing… becoming more and more the painter that she already is… painting herself a world that she wants to live in and inviting us to take tea with her there amidst the flowers and the fruit…in a house of our own design… with a love bigger than the world we know already and as big as our imagination can stretch the everyday things that surround us.

She shows us, through this body of work, what a wonderful world this can be when it is illuminated by simple acknowledgement and sheer conviction of the mark that this makes. She invites us to wear it, to live it and to see art in every corner of our world, plus hers.

Dr Ryya Bread

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2014 – 2016 tate product range designed exclusively for tate ives available only from tate st ives and online at  shop.tate.org.uk    

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2012 . collaboration with arbor . artist series . session t shirt

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collaboration with arbor artist series . session t shirt limited edition of 1000 sold out

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2010 . along the same lines

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along the same lines a collaboration between jessica cooper and richard hawkins limited signed first edition of 25 48 page hardback book publication for double vision the exchange

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2007 . box set . 10 designs . 10 individual cards

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box set of 10 designs 10 individual cards limited edition of 500 sold out

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2013 . good enough to eat . outlaws @ st enodoc

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2013 . fixtures and fittings . kestle barton

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2010 . double vision . along the same lines . online version . the exchange

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2014 . art daily . review . about home

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2014 . st ives times and echo . review . about home

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2014 . cornwall today . june issue . pick of the month

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2014 . exhibition of the month . may issue . aesthetip magazine . online at ISSUU

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2013 . artist of the month . december issue . aesthetip magazine . online at ISSUU

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2013 . the cornishman . good enough to eat

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2013 . tate st ives . hepworth workshop

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2013 . cornwall today . tate products

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2012 . the cornishman . life without words

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2012 . st ives times and echo . life without words . portrait

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2011 . book review . the surfer’s path january / february ( issue 82 ) . www.surferspath.com

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2011 . cornwall today . may issue . postcard from an artist

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2009 . inside cornwall . october issue . review . eclectic and the sea

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2009 . cornwall today . october issue . eclectic and the sea . interview . alex wade

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interview by Alex Wade for Cornwall Today Magazine October 2009 “I loved London, its sense of anonymity and the hard slog that goes with being there. But I couldn’t live there for long. I just couldn’t be away from the … find out more

2009 . the cornishman . november . review . double vision . along the same lines

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2009 . the west briton . october . interview

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2008 . portrait . max adelman

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2008 . the cornishman . review . the stour gallery

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2007 . portrait . gary treadwell . artists in cornwall series

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2007 . cornwall today . october issue . interview . chloe wild

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2007 . inside cornwall . october issue . in the picture

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2005 . cornwall today . august issue . editor’s choice

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2005 . inside cornwall . august issue . in the studio

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2004 . the cornishman . february . review . reading between the lines 1993-2003

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2003 . the west briton . april . review . painting eden

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2014 . about home . introduction . ismay atkins . belgrave gallery

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Belgrave Gallery 2014 About Home Ismay Atkins Like the comic silence that treads a thrilling fine line; the pregnant pause in a bar of music; the short line of poetry that gathers emotion in refrain, Jessica Cooper’s apparent simplicity on … find out more

2013 . fixtures and fittings . foreword . dr ryya bread . kestle barton

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Kestle Barton   2013 Fixtures and Fittings Dr Ryya Bread A layered location replete with human histories and memories, place has width as well as depth. It is about connections, what surrounds it, what formed it, what happened there, what will … find out more

2012 . an open book . foreword . dr ryya bread . edgar modern

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an open book – plain to see : dr. ryya bread    edgarmodern fine art 2012 “Our house was full of her notebooks, drawings and paintings and over the years I have watched her journey from kitchen pin-board to gallery wall.” … find out more

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