Judith Cowan (sculptor)

Judith Cowan (born in 1954) is a British artist who lives in London. She works in sculpture, installation, photography, and film.

double act, 2018, nickel-plated bronze, nylon and fans, 180 x 75 x 150 cm ^[1]

Judith Cowan (2019)

Life and work

From 1974 to 1977, Cowan studied sculpture at Sheffield Polytechnic and later at Chelsea School of Art and Design from 1977 to 1978.^[2] In 1978–79, she was awarded the Gulbenkian Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome.^[2]

Between 1980 and 2016, she taught in Fine Art at Goldsmith College, Chelsea School of Art and Design and Middlesex University^[3] amongst others.

Cowan has exhibited in solo shows at Camden Arts Centre (1993),^[4][5] Studio Stefania Miscetti (1995 and 2000),^[6][5] Kettle's Yard in Cambridge (1996),^[5][2] Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea in Rome (2005),^[7] Erica Ravenna Arte Contemporanea in Rome (2006),^[5][8] Finnegan’s Teeth project in London (2009)^[9] and traveled to Prague (2010).^[10][5] The films Angelica and The Palace of Raw Dreams were made in collaboration with the Antonio Pasqualino Museo in Palermo (2012 and 2013).^[11] Both films were exhibited at the Antonio Pasqualino Museo then Angelica travelled to the Sharjah Art Foundation (2014).^[5]

Angelica, 2013, film still. ^[12] Exhibited at the Antonio Pasqualino Museum, Palermo in 2014, 2018^[13] and at the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2018.^[14]

She received awards from the Henry Moore Foundation in 1998, 1996 and 1992; The Elephant Trust in 1993 and was a prize-winner at Rassegna Internazionale di Scultura Contemporanea,^[2] San Marino, Italy in 1979.

Her work is in the collections of The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Arts Council of Great Britain;^[15] the Hechinger Collection,^[16] US; Government Art Collection,^[17] London Borough of Tower Hamlets; Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome; Rugby Museum & Art Gallery ^[9] and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.^[18]

Bibliography

• Emily LaBarge, Paola Nicita, Rosario Perricone, Angelica, London, 2013
• Finnegan’s Teeth, RGAP, Sheffield, 2009 (Artist's book)
• S. Santacatterina, S. Lux, D. Scudero, Judith Cowan: The Capacity of Things: From Life, Luxflux, Rome, 2005
• Jean Fisher, present.....passing, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 1998
• Jean Fisher, Passages & Incidents, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 1996
• Andrew Wilson, Water Rises, Camden Arts Centre, London, 1993