Emmanuel Cooper

Dr Emmanuel Cooper is a potter, writer and was, until recently, the editor of Ceramic Review: the international magazine of ceramic art and craft, who has his own studio in central London. Recent one person exhibitions include the Fine Art Society, London, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University and Beaux Art Gallery, Bath. Forthcoming exhibition Craft Study Centre, Farnham (April 2005). Emmanuel Cooper has work in many national and international collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Crafts Council Collection, London.

He is Visiting Professor, Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art and Guest Curator of Applied Art, Tate St Ives. His latest books include Bernard Leach: Life and Work (Yale University Press 2003), regarded as the definitive account of this great potter, and 10,000 Years of Pottery, published by the British Museum
Press. He is currently working on a book on Contemporary Ceramics for Thames and Hudson and researching a biography of Lucie Rie.

EDUCATION

1961 - 1962 Hornsey College of Art
1960 - 1961 Bournemouth College of Art
1958 - 1960 Dudley Training College
Ph D Middlesex University 1996

TRAINING

Gwyn Hanssen, London studio, 1963, La Borne, France, 1970
Bryan Newman, Dulwich studio, 1964

LECTURING

Senior lecturer (associate) - Middlesex University 1974 - 1997
Visiting lecturer, Camberwell School of Art, Central/St Martins School of Art, Goldsmiths’ College, Visiting Professor, Royal College of Art, 2000-

AUTHOR (selected list)

Ten Thousand Years of Pottery, British Museum Press, London, 2000
Lucie Rie, (editor) Ceramic Review Publishing, London, 2002
Bernard Leach: Life and Work, Yale University Press, 2003.

MAJOR ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)

Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
Crafts Study Centre, Franham
Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
Fine Art Society
White Gallery, Hove
Galerie L, Hamburg
Beaux Arts, Bath
Ruthin Crafts Centre (and continuing national tour)
Sense of Space: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery
Southampton Art Gallery
New Work: Contemporary Ceramics, London
New Work: Leigh Gallery, London

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS

Victoria and Albert Museum
Royal Scottish Museum
Warwick University
Potteries Art Gallery and Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
Williamson Art Gallery
Aberystwyth Art Centre
Allen Galley, Alton
Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery
Cleveland Craft Centre
Philadelphia Museum of Art