David Cooper ‘Remains’
plaster, concrete, wood   .   140 x 34 x 27 cm


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David Cooper was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1972. He currently lives and works in Suffolk.

Cooper’s work deals with disorder, taking fragments of found, disregarded objects and exploring them inside-out, and outside-in, through a series of unpremeditated and intuitive processes in three dimensional form. The works inquire into a humanity that feels, fears and confronts restriction and control; a state of being often conducive to an abominable sense of desolation and fettered anxiety. These unknown (and unknowable) aspects of the human condition, driven by momentary absences of restraint, stricture and control are embodied. Broken happenings, motivated by instinct, assemblage techniques and random thoughts, naivety and energy are exploited to sculpt the identity of these unfathomable aspects of human experience. His intriguing and expressive portraits, are perhaps deliberately destined to remain curious and incomplete.

Cooper studied fashion at John Moores University followed by an MA in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins where he went on to become lead designer and head of menswear at Alexander McQueen. More recently Cooper attended Fine Art summer school at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. Works have been exhibited extensively in the UK including The Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2014 and most recently as part of Anima Mundi’s ‘Protected by Alarms’.