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Coco Crampton

b. 1983, United Kingdom

Coco Crampton (b.1983, London, UK), studied at Norwich School of Art and Design before graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2014. Co-opting craft traditions through playful gesture, Coco’s work breathes new life into historical forms, ranging from Victorian furniture to 20th-century design icons. Weaving together function and fiction Coco’s work embodies a performativity, activated in the imagination of the viewer. Select exhibitions include: Domestic Wears, Belmacz, London (2020-21); RA Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Odds, TOMA Project Space, Southend-on-Sea (2019); Tender Touches, AMP Gallery, London (2019); Estragon, Belmacz, London (2019),Threshing Barn installation, Charleston, Sussex (2018-19); The Artist Practitioner, The Shoe Factory, Norwich (2018); Idea Home Show, MIMA, Middlesbrough (2018); The Ghosts are in the House, Chopping Block Gallery, London (2018); If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Roaming Projects, London (2018), Alpenglühen: 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr, Belmacz, London (2017); RA Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017); Bowers: from form to public (solo show), Belmacz, London (2016); Gardeners & Astronomers, Caustic Coastal, Manchester (2016); RA Summer Exhibition (2016), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016); All Over, Studio_Leigh, London (2016); Looking At People, Looking At Art, Division of Labour, London (2016); Gradation (recent graduates of the Royal Academy Schools), Art First, London (2016); Kingly Things (a two-person show with Agata Madejska), Chandelier Projects, London (2015); Handles on Romance & Other Girls also Common Tongue (solo show), The Minories Galleries, Colchester (2015). Coco was shortlisted for Dentons Art Prize S/S 2018. Coco lives and works in London.

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Exhibition
Women of the ’20s
Belmacz
6 Oct-22 Dec 2023

Representation

Belmacz