After completing his national service in the RAF, Cooper attended Dudley Teacher Training College (1958–60) specialising in art and drama and followed that up with an additional year at Bournemouth College of Art (1960–61).Ĭooper was then appointed art teacher at Downs Lane Central School in Tottenham (1961-63) the only full-time teaching job of his career although he subsequently went on to teach ceramics part-time at Harrow School (1963-65) and at the Central Foundation School for Girls, Spitalfields (1965-70). An intelligent and creative child, he passed the 11+ and attended Tupton Hall Grammar School.Ĭooper was first introduced to clay at school and although immediately responding to the material he did not believe he could make a living as a potter and subsequently decided to train as a schoolteacher. He was born in Pilsley, a small coalmining village in north-east Derbyshire, on the 12 December 1938, the fourth of five children of a butcher. About this Archive Potter and writer on the arts Administrative/biographical historyĮmmanuel Cooper (1938-2012) was a distinguished potter, writer, teacher, editor, and LGBTQ activist.
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