Coco Crampton, Tides, 2024 (framed)
Pencil crayon on paper, 54 x 42cm.
Devon-based contemporary artist Coco Crampton works in a variety of mediums connected to traditional crafts including ceramic, wool, wood and copper. Exploring historical and contemporary domestic forms and their functions, her colourful reinterpretations - which often include elements of suspension or balance - are both playful and reflective. The human form has also provided subject matter for the artist, which she has explored through knitted garments with playful embellishments.
We are proud to be showing Coco’s work for the first time in our June 2024 group exhibition ‘Almost Blue’. This framed drawing titled ‘Tides’, features an hourglass figure which also suggests the form of a forked river and the water which flows along it. Coco says; ‘the title relates to the idea of the female body being synchronous with lunar cycles. The colour blue desaturates within the drawing, emptying out gradually, becoming lighter as it rises.’
Coco studied at Norwich School of Art and Design before graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2014. Select exhibitions include: ‘Plans for Living’, Weald Contemporary, Arundel (2024); ‘Sketches for the Future’, Belmacz, miart fair 2024, Milan (2024); ‘Contested Bodies’, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University (2023-4); ‘Women of the '20's’, Belmacz, London (2023); and the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2020). She was the artist in residence in Hull School of Art and Design in 2009. Coco has received awards for her work including the Patricia Turner Sculpture Award, given at Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2014. She has also been commissioned to make works on several occasions including a dining table for the Charleston Trust.
Pencil crayon on paper, 54 x 42cm.
Devon-based contemporary artist Coco Crampton works in a variety of mediums connected to traditional crafts including ceramic, wool, wood and copper. Exploring historical and contemporary domestic forms and their functions, her colourful reinterpretations - which often include elements of suspension or balance - are both playful and reflective. The human form has also provided subject matter for the artist, which she has explored through knitted garments with playful embellishments.
We are proud to be showing Coco’s work for the first time in our June 2024 group exhibition ‘Almost Blue’. This framed drawing titled ‘Tides’, features an hourglass figure which also suggests the form of a forked river and the water which flows along it. Coco says; ‘the title relates to the idea of the female body being synchronous with lunar cycles. The colour blue desaturates within the drawing, emptying out gradually, becoming lighter as it rises.’
Coco studied at Norwich School of Art and Design before graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2014. Select exhibitions include: ‘Plans for Living’, Weald Contemporary, Arundel (2024); ‘Sketches for the Future’, Belmacz, miart fair 2024, Milan (2024); ‘Contested Bodies’, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University (2023-4); ‘Women of the '20's’, Belmacz, London (2023); and the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2020). She was the artist in residence in Hull School of Art and Design in 2009. Coco has received awards for her work including the Patricia Turner Sculpture Award, given at Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2014. She has also been commissioned to make works on several occasions including a dining table for the Charleston Trust.
Pencil crayon on paper, 54 x 42cm.
Devon-based contemporary artist Coco Crampton works in a variety of mediums connected to traditional crafts including ceramic, wool, wood and copper. Exploring historical and contemporary domestic forms and their functions, her colourful reinterpretations - which often include elements of suspension or balance - are both playful and reflective. The human form has also provided subject matter for the artist, which she has explored through knitted garments with playful embellishments.
We are proud to be showing Coco’s work for the first time in our June 2024 group exhibition ‘Almost Blue’. This framed drawing titled ‘Tides’, features an hourglass figure which also suggests the form of a forked river and the water which flows along it. Coco says; ‘the title relates to the idea of the female body being synchronous with lunar cycles. The colour blue desaturates within the drawing, emptying out gradually, becoming lighter as it rises.’
Coco studied at Norwich School of Art and Design before graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2014. Select exhibitions include: ‘Plans for Living’, Weald Contemporary, Arundel (2024); ‘Sketches for the Future’, Belmacz, miart fair 2024, Milan (2024); ‘Contested Bodies’, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University (2023-4); ‘Women of the '20's’, Belmacz, London (2023); and the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2020). She was the artist in residence in Hull School of Art and Design in 2009. Coco has received awards for her work including the Patricia Turner Sculpture Award, given at Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2014. She has also been commissioned to make works on several occasions including a dining table for the Charleston Trust.
