Education
2015 Bachelor of Visual Art [Honours] – Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Exhibition title tbc, Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania
2021 relative weakness, Pig Melon, Perth, Western Australia
From this side of the Horizon, Yarta Purtli, Port Augusta, South Australia
relative weakness, praxis ARTSPACE, Adelaide South Australia
Out of Breath, Good Grief Studios, Hobart, Tasmania
2020 Out of Breath, FELTspace, Adelaide, South Australia
2017 Port-all, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania
Submerge, ACE Across at ACE Open, Adelaide, South Australia
2016 Port-all, FELTspace, Adelaide, South Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions / Projects
2024 Beechworth Biennale, Beechworth, Victoria (March)
2022 Whale-Backs and Miscellaneous Forms, collaboration with Ash Tower, Post Office Projects, South Australia
Water Bodies, Floating Goose Studios, Adelaide, South Australia
Gallery M Contemporary Art Exhibition 2022, Gallery M, Marion, South Australia
2020 Submerge, praxis ARTSPACE, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 Primal : Ephemeral Eco Art Residency, Visible Festival, Streaky Bay, South Australia
Leeward Bride, collaboration with Christina Peek, Floating Goose Studios, Adelaide, South Australia
2016 Four Walls, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia
2015 Propositions, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
FELTpublic, Ephemeral Public Art Project for FELTspace, Whitmore Square, South Australia
Wish You Were Here, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
Provenance, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
2014 Breaking Silence, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
Awards
2023 Guildhouse CATAPULT Mentorship with artist Penelope Cain
Maritime Art Prize and Exhibition (finalist), Mission to Seafarer’s Victoria
2022 Aesthetica Art Prize (longlisted)
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
2020 Grindell’s Hut Artist in Residence, Vulkathunha – Gammon Ranges National Park, Australia
2017 Submerge, Ayatana Artist's Research Program, Ottawa, Canada
2016 Dos Mares International Residency Program, Marseille, France
Bibliography
2021 Roberts, G. 3rd October 2021, Hundreds of kilometres from the ocean, artist Edwina Cooper can't escape her
watery obsession, ABC North and West SA, viewable at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-03/country-
arts-sa-grindells-hut-artist-edwina-cooper/100497296
Interview by Georgia Roberts, Breakfast radio, ABC North and West SA, broadcast on 3rd June 2021
Interview by Emma Wotzke, Festival City, Radio Adelaide, broadcast on 14th May 2021
Broadsheet Adelaide, ‘Editor’s Picks: The Best Things to Do in Adelaide in May’, Adelaide.Viewable at:
www.broadsheet.com.au/adelaide/entertainment/article/editors-picks-best-things-do-adelaide-may-2021
2020 CityMag, ‘SALA: Waterline’, Adelaide
. Viewable at: https://citymag.indaily.com.au/whats-on/sala-waterline/
Llewellyn, J. 2020, ‘Water, water everywhere …’, The Adelaide Review, 2nd July, p 39-40
2018 Interview for Primal : Ephemeral Eco Art Residency.
Viewable at: https://www.visiblestreakybay.com/copy-of-oceanic-space-art-installat-1
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
Current Board Member at Post Office Projects Gallery & Studios
Member of Guildhouse
2021 SALA Art Tour leader - Franglais, presented in French and English
Bio / statement
Edwina Cooper’s sculptural and installation based practice is influenced by her experiences as a sailor, with a continued interest in the methods for human experience and interaction with oceanic thresholds. Through embodied research in the field, Cooper’s practice investigates human inferiority in the face of oceanic immensity and our resulting attempts at fathoming oceanic and other water spaces through human imposed constructs of measure and control.