Andrew Cooper Unseen
Using art as a medium to explore what is often unseen, including the ways art interacts with people , who it is for and what it can do.
Archives: Projects
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During the last decade there has been a significant, sustained attack on people’s right to housing, particularly in working class communities. These attacks must be considered alongside and in the context of the 2008 economic collapse, continuing capitalist crisis and savage cuts to local services and education The art works presented here are the result…
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‘Andrew Cooper Unseen’ brings together wood, carvings, animated films, drawings and paintings within their historic participatory environments and situations. One of the intentions of the work is to communicate with materials, which is one of our oldest human impulses. The impulse to create is alive both in our own personal life histories, when we first…
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The puppets The puppets came literally out of the wood work. They originated after my parents died and we were told we had only two weeks to clear everything out of their council house which they had been living in for decades. This started me thinking about the plight of people generally, where the material…
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Finding an answer to the problem of creating our own space to show work and create our own discourse around issues like housing, employment, unemployment and the treatment of refugees has been the aim of a series of events created in the Harts Lane Space with the RCG group and West London refugee group and…
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Explore Marxist Theory Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities where things can be out of order! All images copy right Andrew Cooper. -If you would like to use these for educational purpose please contact me. I am also available to give talks with people I work with in campaigns. Making images is work…
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GHOST TRAIN TO SOULS TOWN- Domestic fragments answer back A ruinous ghost train. A working ghost train in which people were wheeled into a space containing many carved tools and domestic fragments and a film in which they came alive. You can view the film here-click on link THOSE WHOSE SOULS RESIST REPOSSESSION
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Fate of former occupants of a council house. They have come back to life but have been embodied in bits of furniture and parts of the house like door frames they try and find each other and make sense of things Memories contained in domestic objects are explored in the light of the human dimension…
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The Room (shown here in its manifestation in Union Street) is a reconstruction of a domestic interior using mostly found materials from skips and waste disposal areas. Fetishistic communion and craft techniques such as woodcarving, house painting and carpet fitting are utilized with the help of Toby Jugs animated within two hand carved T.V sets.…
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