Jean Cooper-Brown

2009

Don't Look Down
 
ACR 30x30cm
Bow Bow!
 
ACR 30x30cm
Bouncing Ball *
 
ACR 30x30cm
How Clever Am I! *
 
ACR 30x30cm
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About Jean Cooper-Brown

Jean has a varied and diverse art background focussed mainly on drawing. After completing a Diploma of Art at Prahran she developed a career as a professional book illustrator. This was interspersed with some teaching and stints as artist-in-residence in schools. She has designed sets, posters and logos for women's circus and theatre groups, designed posters and run children's art programs for street festivals.

Jean has developed and run a successful gallery providing opportunities for emerging artists, sculptors and craftsmen, where her own work was exhibited and sold.

Jean currently paints and draws at the Bowling Club studios in St Kilda where her work is exhibited. She works with artists groups at Linden Gallery and Gasworks and is currently putting together material for joint and single exhibitions.

A number of her works are included in private collections.

I see my work using imagery that suggests meaning on two levels: private and emotional experiences; and the influences of the wider world. Using both figuration and abstraction with human, animal and landscape forms I hope to find expression of my ideas.

Symbolic elements recur throughout my work and act as an anchor for my paintings. Colour, vibrancy and the ebb and flow of these elements, when in harmony, are transferred to the viewing audience.

My influences range through a wide spectrum of Art periods and styles. I have a particular fondness for the works of Picasso, Matisse, and Gauguin in the Modernist style. Contemporary British artists such as Freud and Hockney were earlier influences.

Certainly Abstraction plays a role with the likes of Rothko, Tapies, Pollock and Newman. Australian artists who I admire include Williams, Whiteley, Amore, Kngwarreye, Borgelt and many more who are working on their craft today.

Current and future exhibitions:

  • Port Art exhibition at Gasworks Gallery
  • Di Jackman Memorial Prize recipient
  • International Women's Day exhibition at Gallery 314
  • Tsunami Charity Auction at Gasworks Gallery

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