Jamie Cooper
Jamie Cooper makes sculptural artworks which draw inspiration from popular culture, from the ancient, from the monumental, from science fiction and from the struggle of the working classes within the context of late capitalism. His artistic practice is often an exploration of these interests with a drive to imagining a more optimistic working-class future.
“…the truth is we make this world, and could just as easily make it differently...”
David Graeber
In 2023 he won the Robert Colquoun Prize for the work “Window Licker” and also exhibited at the Fruitmarket in the exhibition of Working Class sculpture titled “Poor Things”. He has shown public art works as part of the British Council interdisciplinary ‘Cityscapers’ project in 2008, in London, Sydney and Singapore. He has also contributed public artwork to Glasgow International in 2010.