Sculpture and Drawing

my work

piano music series

Sculpture and Drawing

my work

piano music series

Current work/instagram

New work.
High fire terracotta, drying for firing.
490 x 300 x 120mm

Photos by @cicelycooley_

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‘That Way’

Industrial crank, drying for firing.

26cm x 18cm x 8cm

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‘Last Sight’.

Charcoal on paper 6m x 3m (20’ x 10’)

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‘Ceasefire Now’

Unfired stoneware, currently drying.

43cm x 40cm x 9cm.

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‘Over the Wall’.

6m x 3m (20’ x 10’)

Charcoal on paper.

Swipe to see Mayo, the baby hen who thinks I’m her mum!?

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‘Spring-loaded and riffing on a bow-shackle’

Charcoal on paper, 5.18m x 3m (17ft x 10ft).

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‘Last Dance’, charcoal on paper, 4m x 3.35m (13 ft x 11 ft).

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Back again at this very special place. I’m sure I will keep returning for as long as I live.

Check out the last pic and zoom in. A Menorcan wedding party, apparently!

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Back in Menorca for a few days. Illa del Rei, The Master Chillida, great architecture and a boss boat.

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Father ❤️
Howard George Cooley
19/12/1924-19/04/2023
98 years of life.
I hope you now find the answers to all your questions.

For the last month of his life, my father received outstanding care in NHS hospitals, by nurses and doctors from all over t

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Post and Lintel. Charcoal on paper.

I’ve not posted for a while..waiting for last year’s work to be installed, but I’ve got my drawing wall back at last!

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End game day 3.
Plotting proposed layout for Kilkenny stone sculptures.

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All in a day’s work. Swipe for my shepherding skills, filmed with great hilarity by @annacooley.ceramics ❤️

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I’ve been persuaded by @annacooley.ceramics to post this portrait by the excellent @thechriscarpenter and his Mamiya 330 film camera. #meetthemaker

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