ARTIST STATEMENT

The road has been a core theme in my work for over two decades. In common with many artists, I have found it to be a continuing source of symbolic and formal possibilities. One way or another, this slice of landscape is shared by all humanity.

CHARLES COOPER

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EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

CHARLES COOPER lives and works in Sydney and teaches at the National Art School.
He has had over twenty solo exhibitions since 1977

2019

THIN VENEER

Korea Australia Art Foundation Prize Finalists 2019, Sydney

2018

ENTERING A ROUNDABOUT

Glass Room Project I
(installation) NAS, Sydney

2016

WHAT GOES AROUND…

Paintings and floor installation. Annandale Galleries, Sydney

About: Resume

2012

I DON'T KNOW HOW A ROCK FEELS

Installations. The British School at Rome

2010

PEAK OIL PAINTINGS

Paintings, dioramas, Annandale Galleries, Sydney

2010

RIVERS AND ROADS

Paintings, drawings, sculptures, Hawkesbury and Orange
Galleries NSW

2015

PEDESTRIAN

Group Show at Rayner Hoff Space at the National Art School

2014

ROAD WORKS

Paintings, dioramas,
Annandale Galleries, Sydney

2013

SEA CHANGE

Window space painting installation,
Slot, Sydney

2010

CIRCLING THE BLOCK

Paintings/ screenprint
window installation, Slot, Sydney

2004

APPROACHING THE BLOCK

Paintings,
Tin Sheds, Sydney University

2003

TRAFFIC

Paintings and floor installation.
Annandale Galleries, Sydney