Untitled Painting

"Narrative or material, or both; the paintings of Loretto Cooney though pictorial, foreground the fact these are paintings made of material and become objects. This describes as much a narrative of making as a narrative that can be unlocked within the images as meaning; both together. Each subject is defined by paint - a definition that is absolutely open-ended and yet completely there as material, to be touched and beyond touching. This is not meaning wrought through illustration - nothing can be taken as a given here, only found." - Andrew Wilson, Tate Britain.