TORONTO, CANADA

RIKKI COOPER

Laurel

$351.00
Exhibition Submission Statement

For my “boxes”, I have specific criteria. I use clay left from other functional work I create. The lids didn’t have to sit “proud”. They are boxes in the literal sense of having a lid, a body and a void but they are not necessarily meant to be practical. Filling them is optional and may be troublesome. That is the point. To me they represent the world as it is. Off kilter, beautiful but fragile, an empty space to hold wishes and hopes.

Dimensions: 13.5”H x 5.5"W x 3.5”D

Material: Porcelain

Artwork ships: beginning october 22nd

Laurel

Rikki Cooper, 2025
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Artist Statement

I have been making art since I was a child but more formal training happened at Central Technical School in Toronto in the 1990’s after working in residential design. I studied ceramics at various places in Toronto and found that my passion was in hand building with clay in a very organic way. Interesting, not perfection, was my mantra. I create for the joy of creating. Clay has been a wonderful rabbit hole to have fallen into.

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About the Artist

I have been making art since I was a child but more formal training happened at Central Technical School in Toronto in the 1990’s after working in residential design. I studied ceramics at various places in Toronto and found that my passion was in hand building with clay in a very organic way. Interesting, not perfection, was my mantra. I create for the joy of creating. Clay has been a wonderful rabbit hole to have fallen into.

Artist cv

RIKKI COOPER

Feldspar Studio, 2024 to present

Clay Space Studio, 2020-2023

Pottery program JCC,Celia Zveibel Brandau, 2015-2020

Haliburton School of the Arts, Summer programs for 20 years: Gold smithing, glass blowing, stone sculpting

Central Technical School Adult Art Program, 1993-1996

Interior Design, Gorman-Mazzon Design Build., 1986-1994

Previous Art Shows

Oeno Gallery, Jewelry exhibit, 2006

Indoor Art Exhibit, Brookfield Place Concourse, Exhibit of paintings and pastel work; Winner in pastel category, 1995

Sculpture Society of Canada, Group Exhibition, 1994

Other works from the WHAT HOLDS Exhibition