NO. 9: work made in a number nine year
Seeing a stack of half-completed clay pieces piled and ready for recycling, artist Jim Cooper was inspired by their form, and began creating large bauble-like beads in columns.
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Visit this installation of acclaimed ceramicist Jim Cooper's latest work.
The pieces were conceptualised in Guldagergaard International Ceramics Centre in Denmark, during his 2016 – 2017 residency. Seeing a stack of half-completed clay pieces piled and ready for recycling, he was inspired by their form, and began creating large bauble-like beads in columns. Painted lurid yellows, Burtonesque unsteady black and white stripes, peach, and forget-me-not blues, the works are strung in slipping, unsteady towers.
The works have associations with meditation in the practice of making and assessing, and making and re-evaluating.
As with all Cooper's creations, the installation is chaotic, and ebullient, with an infectious joy.
