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162 Blackstock road
Highbury, London
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Rosie Cooper
Formerly trained in Geography, Rosie Cooper frequently adopts the language of mapping and geographical diagrams to visually translate experiences
of landscape.
Through her mapping of the land she explores a basic human need for order and ownership.
The aerial perspectives present in the work diminish our bodily experience of the land and re-package it into something able to be contained and possessed.
The lines of hills present in the paintings reference traditional topographical studies. Many such studies were done by surveyors for the purposes of
colonisation in countries such as New Zealand and Australia; the ultimate goal being domination and control of the land and its inhabitants.
The de-peopled landscapes are echoes of this.
Every landscape is a palimpsest of past and present occupiers, experiences and perspectives, and this multi-layering is a recurring theme in the work.
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