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Theresa Reilly-Cooper
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Degree: BA Hons Illustration with Animation
University: Manchester Metropolitan University
Graduation Year: 2010
New Blood Art Statement
We predict a great future for Theresa Reilly-Cooper, whose pencil drawings explore the possibility of representation and figuration while obliterating parts of the image – sometimes the head, sometimes the entire figure – with precise assurance. The drawings achieve an extreme and expressive economy, but they are most wonderful for their lack of staginess and their frankness.
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Artist Statement
I am a fashion-based illustrator concerned with presenting people and clothes in a traditional medium but in an unusual way.I am primarily interested in people and clothes that are different or alternative in some way. I am also interested in how clothes and people work together, the way in which they alter each other. How clothes affect someone’s presence, and how the human body alters the physical dimensions of garments. Negative space also plays a large role in my portraits. I am very intrigued by suggesting things without actually drawing them.
A portrait artist with strong fashion influences, I focus on specific features, characteristics and details to enhance the portrait. My drawings are executed in pencil. I begin by photographing the subject. I then use the photographs as a reference for the final portrait, cropping certain details out to draw attention to others.
One of my main aims is to capture the model or garment in a natural state. I try to avoid obvious poses.The cropping used within the portraits separates them from traditional fashion based illustrations. The emphasis is as much on the space created as the subject. The portraits are complimentary to the subject without exaggerating or dumbing down any features. They are faithful to the very last detail. The finer aspects like hair, veins and moles are examples of this attention to detail.
My intention is to present fashion within the magazine industry in a way that can stand next to photography and holds its own. Everyday people, clothes and what happens when the two are combined are my main inspiration and motivation.
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Group Exhibitions
2013, Theresa Reilly-Cooper, A collection of Works in Pencil, Joshua Brooks Manchester
2010, Graduate Show, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
2010, Reunion:Manchester School of Art, Coningsbury Gallery, London