Andrew Cooper

GHOST TRAIN TO SOULS TOWN-Cancelled this month!

2011-08-15T08:36:00.000-07:00

The Ghost Train to Souls Town due to open tommorow thursday 27th October 2011, has been cancelled due to the unexpected changing of the locks on the once public Toilet Gallery. We apologise for the inconveniences this will cause-

Plan to relocate...awaite further news!

A new breed of ghost train to take you to the multidimensional space inhabited by your household tools, gorgeous in their carved and pampered splendor and speaking back to you!

Old souls venture through unknown terrains bringing you along in their quest to reunite.

Submerge yourself within the incubation chamber of strangelyalive furniture.

Slumber within an infusionof film imagery.

You will see it all through your tealeaf reading with Stella!

Ghost Train To No Souls Town is triggered by the shattering realisation that for the (often)"less wealthy" amongst us, homes and domestic matter infused withunique and personal spirits, are dismissed as worth nothing if theideological/selfish considerations of institutions and persons find this to beprofitable.

Andrew Cooper uses craft techniques such as wood carving onobjects he finds in skips and charity shops that retain a sense of the uncannyand a history of former use. Bashed peeling paint and exposed wood reveal acommon cabal of characters he finds waiting beneath the surface wanting tospeak. These sculptures are put into environments he creates, animated in filmsor used as ‘Manic-ins’ during performances.

With curation by Judy Watchman

Passenger Train under construction

Opening Thursday 27th October 5-9pm Cancelled-Plan to Rellocate to Hastings In January.

Continues-Thurs. 2-6pm, Fri 2-7pm, Sat 2-7pm till Nov 5th

Toilet Gallery

Nipper Alley

Kingston upon Thames KT1 1QT

Nick and Mack will hold council

Manik-ins Brixton Market and Camberwell Green

2011-06-19T06:17:00.000-07:00

Photo of performance in Brixton Market Szabolcs Süli-Zakar

SEEING RED ON THE GREEN

The Manik-ins Speak Out!

Next-Brixton Market 6.30 pm Thursday 14th July

Denied a voice the manik-ins speak out. Evicted from their flats as the council sells them off to a 'wanna be' mega bucks landlord who is packaging the area as a culturally 'edgy' abode for those that can pay his rents.-not for the likes of the manik-ins.

Photo of performance in Brixton Market Szabolcs Süli-Zakar

THE MUTTERING CAVERN OF DOMESTIC DELIGHTS

2010-06-13T09:32:00.000-07:00

At Five Years Gallery

Jul 3 - 18, 2010-

3rd July to 18th July

Opening hours-Saturday-Sunday 1pm-6pm

5 years Gallery Unit 66, 6th Floor, Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E8 4QN.

More info at Five Years Gallery

ROUTINES

MUTTERING CAVERN OF DOMESTIC DELIGHTS

1.00-Keiff to take a stroll along balcony

1.15-3.30-Andrew Cooper to Invigilate

3.30-The Fiend will inspect the property

4.00-Tea with Ron Barret, Stewart and Johnny sweet Apple

5.00-Thump plays the electronic organ

5.10- The Net Curtain walks the balcony

5.20 Stella becomes completely possessed by Maureena Impaler

5.30-Keiff to take a stroll along the balcony

5.45-Thump sweeps up

A slight time slip creates the presence of a future gallery selling work about displaced communities. Stella is catatonic as her body is periodically taken over by Maureena Impaler who will one day inhabit the space.

Film shot of the Muttering Cavern with its inhabitants

(thanks to Dean kenning for filming)

Rabbles Furious Struggle and Performances

2010-02-02T23:09:00.000-08:00

Still from footage taken by Judy Watchman

Ron Barret, Stewart and Johnny Sweet Apple took part in Saturday night Cabaret in Brixton Market the Big Window Collective and Winter Rites organised by the Five Years Gallery in East London. They have been answering questions as well as giving their views on the different positions in art and political endarkenment.

A disused shop provides a home in Brixton Market, for a week. Photo Ash Finch

Still from footage taken by Judy Watchman

Ron Baret and Stewart wrestle for us all with the vile snake E. Con Money. Brixton Market the Big Window Collective.

Thump & Fiend in East London-

The Fiend looks out for dissenters

One is found.

He didn't do it really!

Judy Watchman as Thump

Scape Goats curated by Mark McGowan photos Adrian Holm.

Wooden Arms-Carved from a dumped bed-designed for use in domestic and work settings (see film in post below)

Stella and George's Spot

2009-05-20T13:04:00.000-07:00

Stella and George, their first film

2009-04-09T08:07:00.000-07:00

SON OF STELLA AND GEORGE

A house was constructed in Peckham Square where six grave stones were painted as part of a festival of village idiots(curated by Mark McGowan.)

ENJOY PARADISE

A collaborative work involving video, posters sculpture -

Andrew Cooper, Dean Kenning and Sarah Sparkes.

Still from information film

Transzendenz Inc. April 24th - Mai 24th 2009 Hospitalhof StuttgartCurated by Heiki Kelter and Rene Luck Hart

An ongoing hanging at the F-ish Gallery-45 Robertson Street Hastings

As part of the Dark Timescurated by Paul Sakoilskyhttp://www.f-ish.co.uk/paul_sakoilsky_show_2.

The Forgotten Bar-Berlin

2008-10-04T06:20:00.000-07:00

The toby jugs and their holiday plates went to Berlin on Sept 29th for JERRY LEE LEWIS-NIGHT. This show was the final at the Forgotten Bar Project before closing. The Killers music was played exclusively the whole night intermingeled with various sounds emerging from the works in the show. Curated by Heiki Kelter and Rene Luck Hart

COMPOST MAN

2008-06-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

Compost man laying on Camberwell Green
People were invited to lie inside to watch a film in order to compost themselves on a Sunday afternoon.

The bubble gum and bird excrement storyteller, still from the film ‘Compost yourself’

The Cabinet of Evocation

2008-04-08T16:49:00.000-07:00

After a hard afternoons work at the Sun and Doves pub the Cabinet of Evocation with Toby Mercurious takes a well earned rest. This formed part of the Marquis of Camberwell event curated by Rachael House and Jo David of Space Station Sixty-Five (See past exhibitions).

The cabinet was wheeled into the pub for people to be inducted into for magical evocation during the sunday afternoon of april the 6th 2008 between 5 and 8pm. Performance

The Cabinet was also on show with the enscribed momentos people brought back after entering it at Sartorial Contemporary Art
23rd May - 19th June 2008

Intorducing the cabinet.

The inscribed momentos that people brought back were tied by them to the cabinet.
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Room for Manifestation

2008-03-21T04:22:00.001-07:00

The Room (shown here in its manifestation in Union Street, Climate for Change Show ) is a reconstruction of a domestic interior using mostly found materials from skips and waste disposal areas.

Fetishistic communion and craft techniques such as woodcarving, house painting and carpet fitting are utilized with the help of Toby Jugs animated within two hand carved T.V sets.

Agit Train

2008-03-20T23:26:00.001-07:00

The following project undertaken in collaboration with the artist and curator Sarah Sparkes involved the construction of an Agit Train Carriage inside the Portman Gallery in Bethnal Green for film screenings that took place during the Real Life Exhibition.

The Guards Control Panel

For more information go to Portman Gallery but don't miss the classy paper plates below.

Fire Place

2008-03-17T15:08:00.000-07:00

'Fire Place' formed part of an exhibition held at the John Bloxom Gallery near Clapham junction.

"The classy paper plates formed a perfect complement to the genteel atmosphere" Cyril La Crow