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Gabrielle Cooper
Born 1987
Lives and works in London, UK
www.gabriellecooper.co.uk

Gabrielle Cooper’s work is predominantly focused on the landscape and the
impractical, adoring and complex relationship we have with it. Her approach
when taking a photograph is to be unobtrusive, sympathetic and delicate, liking
her images to be reminiscent of the atmosphere of the time the photograph was
taken. Cooper wants the viewer to feel the way that she felt when in the depth
of that moment; the smell, the emotion, the relationship she had with the place,
person or thing.

By applying a delicate nature to taking the photograph, Cooper feels that it gives
the work an element of “truth”. There isn’t a pretentious or artifi cial aspect but
instead it is a representation of her own felt emotion and presence. Cooper uses
various techniques, from multiple exposures to manipulating the camera in order
to convey this.
What attracted Cooper to photography was its ability to manipulate time, allowing
us to capture it, misplace it and re-live it over and over again. It allows us to share
experiences with one another that go further than word of mouth.
作画 ‘Hua’ is a new body of work inspired by Ancient and Traditional Chinese
paintings. Traditional Chinese landscapes do not record an actual place but are
of the sublime. They have no true horizon line, and the paintings show a separation
between heaven and earth. Using photographic techniques such as multiple
exposures, Cooper is attempting to capture landscapes in a way that mimic the
notions, styles and romanticism expressed in Chinese ink drawings and paintings.
Although still in the early stages of research, she has begun taking photographs in
rural Scotland, using the refl ections of lakes to manipulate the light exposed, helping
to create negative and hazy spaces and creates an illusion of a more surreal and
romantic landscape.

GABRIELLE COOPER graduated with BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography from Camberwell College
of Arts, London, UK (2010) after having attained Art Foundation Diploma at the same Institution
(2007). Cooper has exhibited her work in a number of group exhibitions including; Colour.It, Palazzo
Ducale, Atina, Italy (2013), Accidental Festival 2012, The Accidental Festival, London, UK [2012],
Art Grab Launch, Art Grab, London, UK (2012), BA Fine Art Degree Show, Camberwell College of
Art, London, UK (2010) The Big Ink, Amersham Arms, London, UK (2009), Trinity Buoy Wharf, Trinity
Buoy Wharf, London, UK (2009), Fiohb Bhoif (Guerrilla Art Performance), London Bridge, London,
UK (2009) and Your Space or Mine, Nolias Gallery, London, UK (2008). In 2011 Cooper staged her
fi rst Solo Exhibition, Ubiquity, at THECUBE London, London, UK and is Represented by Steinbach &
Syer, London, UK.

Right: 作画 ‘Hua’ (1), 2013, C-Type Print.
h: 40cm w: 60cm, Artist’s Collection.

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