Jim Cooper (potter)

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Jim Cooper
Born1956 (age 65–66)
Westport, New Zealand
EducationBuller High School
Known forCeramic artist
Notable work
Sgt P,Millbrook Holiday (the League for Spiritual Discovery)
Awards
  • McSkimming Award 1984
  • Norsewear Art Awards 2006
  • First Place for Snowy from Cavy
  • Portage Ceramic Awards 2009, joint winner
  • Portage Ceramic Awards 2012, Premier Award

Jim Cooper (born 1956) is a New Zealand potter.

Career[]

Cooper was born in Westport, New Zealand on the West Coast of the South Island in 1956, and attended Buller High School.[1]

He studied ceramics at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 1984 and 1989, but did not "get a ticket";[2] he returned and completed a Masters of Fine Arts there in 1999.[1][3] Cooper studied under Neil Grant while at Otago Polytechnic and acknowledges him as a mentor.[1]

Cooper has worked in ceramics since the early 1980; his earliest works in 1982 were vessels.[2] He then began creating heads and torsos of free-standing figures and relief sculptures.[1]

One of his major works is Sgt P, a ceramic installation loosely inspired by the album art of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles.[4] The installation, made up of more than 100 ceramic figures, cardboard cut-outs and drawings, was shown at The Dowse Art Museum in 2007 and then toured to Tauranga, Rotorua and Auckland.[4]

Recognition[]

Cooper won the McSkimming Award in 1984. In 1996 he was a finalist in the New Ceramics and Glass Awards.[2] He won first place in the Norsewear Art Awards in 2006 for his work Snowy from Cavy.[4] His exhibition 'Peppermints and Incense' was held at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 2008–2009.[4] He was named joint winner of the Portage Ceramic Awards in 2009 and was awarded the Premier Award in 2012 for his 30-piece installation Millbrook Holiday (the League for Spiritual Discovery).[3][5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Schamroth, Helen (1998). 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Auckland: Godwit Press. ISBN 978-1869620363.
  2. ^ a b c Keene, Howard (17 September 1997). "Victims of Life". The Press. p. 13.
  3. ^ a b "Top clay artist on campus" (5 November 2009). The Bay Chronicle. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d Elliott, Moyra (Summer 2008). "Record covers I have known". Art News. 28 (4): 50–53. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  5. ^ Benson, Nigel (27 October 2012). "Premier award to Dunedin ceramist". Otago Daily Times. Allied Press Limited. Retrieved 5 December 2014.


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