Jo Cooper

TITLE Routine and Common Place Plastic bottles and threads December 2010 SIZE 18 x 35 x 7 cm SALE PRICE Contact the artist ARTIST STATEMENT While investigating the way my work is physically made; in between everyday domestic tasks, I have realised that these pauses are intrinsic to my process of making. This tension, caused by daily domestic chores being an obstacle to work being completed, has become the tension in yarn and threads sewn and woven into disposable plastic packaging. Items, that are routine and commonplace and usually thrown away, have become small sculptures which highlight the form of these disposable objects. A recent work ‘Dwell’ was a site specific piece consisting of a succession of pinhole photographs taken of a room over a period of time.  The images captured of the dwelling within the living space were projected on a large scale back into rooms and confined spaces. These projections were distorted by the objects that they are projected onto in the cluttered, furniture filled rooms. I recently exhibited a selection of pinhole photographs at George’s Gallery in Folkestone; these were taken with my converted 35mm camera, while walking by the river Pool in South East London and along the sea front in Folkestone. TELEPHONE 07777 621877 EMAIL cooperjo@talk21.com