Emma Coop

Born 1976 Manchester, UK
Lives and works in London

Emma Coop’s artistic practice is based around drawing. She completed her MA in Fine Art from Chelsea UAL in 2004. Coop regularly exhibits and has recently been included in the Creekside Open, Wales Contemporary and 168th RWA Open. Coop recently presented her first London sole exhibition at Studio 1.1 Gallery, titled: I LIVE ANOTHER LIFE.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I explore an affinity with nature and the elements despite living in cities all my life. My drawings document a desire to run in the opposite direction, to escape edges, things and people. Such an ‘escape’ could be experienced via sailing in a small single-handed boat around a dock off the Thames with the thrill-threat of capsize, or getting into nature and following hidden passage ways through woodland to find den-like secret places that may hold secrets, or may not.

There is a restlessness in the work, a drive to create by tenacity which builds a mounting tension akin to an Antonioni film—imagine the amplified sound of the wind whilst the camera forensically roves over grainy black and white landscapes to build suspense from ‘nothing’ such as in Blow Up and L’Aventura.

I draw because of its immediacy: there is a ve...

Ma Fine Art, 2004, Chelsea College of Art and Design

PG Dip Fine Art, 2002, Chelsea College of Art and Design

BA Hons Interactive Arts, 2000, Manchester Metropolitan University

2022 I LIVE ANOTHER LIFE, Studio 1.1, London
2022 THIS YEARS MODEL:3, Studio 1.1, London
2022 ANOTHER GREEN WORLD, Art Hub Gallery, London
2022 PASTEL SOCIETY, Mall galleries, London
2021 SLIPPING OUT OF MY ORDINARY EYES, (SOLO SHOW) Gallery of The Giants, Wiltshire
2021 THIS YEAR’S MODEL, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2021 I DIDN’T LICK IT, Bruton Museum, Somerset
2021 Cancelled WALES CONTEMPORARY, Oxo Tower Gallery, London
2021 RWA 168th ANNUAL OPEN, RWA, Bristol
2020 WALES CONTEMPORARY, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven
2020 DRAWING BEYOND ITSELF, Air Gallery, Manchester
2020 DRAWING BEYOND ITSELF, virtual show, http://www.artsteps.com
2020 FERENS OPEN, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
2019 WE EACH HAVE OUR OWN LANDSCAPE, Lewisham Art House, London
2019 BLUE MIND, 3rd on 3rd Gallery, Jamestown, NY
2019 CREEKSIDE OPEN: selected by BRIAN GRIFFITHS, APT Gallery, London
2018 EDITION 5: HIDE AND SEEK, 44AD Gallery, Bath
2018 ON THE EDGE, (SOLO SHOW) Lodestone Creative, Bowling, Scotland
2018 ART FEAST, Someth1ng Gallery, London
2018 THRESHOLDS, Gonzo Unit, Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 MURMURATION, ICE Space, Bath Fringe, Bath
2018 SIGHTLINES, Christmas Steps Gallery, Bristol
2017 THE SAME DEEP WATER, The Great Medical Disaste...