Born 1994, Adelaide, South Australia
Education
2015 Bachelor of Visual Art [Honours] – Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
2014 Bachelor of Visual Art - Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
2013 Associate Degree of Visual Art - Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2017 (tbc), Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania
Submerge, ACE Across at ACE Open, Adelaide, South Australia
2016 Port-all, FELTspace, Adelaide, South Australia
2015 The Sailcloth Work, Mint Artist Studios, Adelaide, South Australia
Group Exhibitions
2016 Four Walls, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia
2015 Propositions, Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
FELTpublic, Ephemeral Public Art Project for FELTspace, Whitmore Square, South Australia
Wish You Were Here, Adelaide Central Gallery, South Australia
10" x 10" - Graduate Fundraiser Exhibition, ACSA Teaching and Studio Building, South Australia
Provenance, Adelaide Central Gallery, South Australia
The Salon Hang, The Floating Goose, South Australia
2014 Breaking Silence, Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
10”x10” – Graduate Fundraiser Exhibition, Victoria Park Chiropractic Clinic, South Australia
eMotive, Meertens Chartered Accountants, South Australia (SALA)
Cinema Lied to Me, Burnside Library, South Australia (SALA)
Awards
2016 FELTspace Philanthropic Fund
2015 Adelaide Festival of Arts’ Destination Art: Emirates Artist Development Opportunity
2014 James Martin Award for most Outstanding Graduate Student (BVA)
Residencies
2018 Ephemeral Art Trail Mentorship, Streaky Bay, Australia
2017 Submerge, Ayatana Artist's Research Program, Ottawa, Canada
2016 Dos Mares International Residency Program, Marseille, France
Bibliography
2017 Tower, A. 2017, 'Shipshaped', catalogue essay for Submerge at ACE Across for ACE Open.
Viewable at: http://aceopen.art/essay-shipshaped/
2016 Boisvert, E. 2016, ‘World of Weather and Art’ Guardian Messenger, 10th February, p. 12
Interview at Dos Mares, Marseille. Viewable at: http://www.2mares.org/EN/index.html
2015 Lloyd, T. 2015, ‘Young artists’ Euro adventure’ The Advertiser, 1st June, p. 28
Other
2017 Co-founder of Verso - an online platform for writing in the visual arts
Bio.
Edwina Cooper is an Adelaide based artist producing kinetic sculptural and installation works. She completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2015. Edwina is a current member of The Boiler Room Studios in Adelaide. In developing her practice she has been influenced by her experiences as a competitive sailor. She has a continued interest in ways in which humans experience and interact with oceanic thresholds.
In 2014, Edwina won the James Martin Award for most Outstanding Graduate Student (BVA). In 2015, Edwina collaborated with Sam Howie for FELTspace’s ephemeral public art project FELTpublic. In June 2016, Edwina exhibited with Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne in a group show called Four Walls. She was awarded the Adelaide Festival of Arts’ Destination Art: Emirates Artist Development Opportunity, which enabled her to travel to Marseille in May/June 2016 to undertake a three week research residency at Dos Mares. The outcomes of this residency was presented FELTspace in November 2016, in an exhibition titled Port-all. Edwina was awarded funding from the FELTspace Philanthropic Fund to assist with her exhibition. This body of work will also be shown with Sawtooth ARI in Launceston, Tasmania in December 2017. In July 2017, Edwina travelled to Canada to take part in a residency called Submerge with Ayatana Artists' Research Residency Program. This activity was supported by the Adelaide Central School of Art's Graduate Support Program.
Edwina is a founding member of the website Verso, which launched in January 2017, as a curated platform encouraging innovative writing practices and accessible writing in the visual arts.