Maria Cooper
Colour, Print and Motion
Residency: January 2025 – July 2025
Maria Cooper is a printed textile artist and designer based in County Durham. A graduate of both the Royal College of Art and the Northern School of Art, her practice is deeply rooted in the materiality of textiles, handcrafted processes and the expressive potential of colour.
Cooper translates her original drawings and paintings into dynamic textile compositions. Her visual language, often evocatively
nostalgic, draws inspiration from postmodern art and design, 1980s pop culture and mid-century graphic design.
Through the interplay of line, form, and colour, Cooper distills the movement and expression of dance by elongating and abstracting the dancers’ forms capturing both the elegance and inherent awkwardness of bodily motion.
Instagram: @from.cooper.studio
EXHIBITION
May 2025
Colour, Print and Motion
Cooper has developed a collection that explores the
human form in motion, capturing the essence of dance. As a performative and ephemeral art form, dance exists in the moment, leaving behind only traces— memories, photographic documentation and recordings.
Whether experienced socially in clubs and communal spaces or privately within domestic settings, dance is an integral part of everyday life with the power to uplift, energise and move us
emotionally.
