Coco Crampton

Coco Crampton (b.1983, London, UK), studied at Norwich School of Art and Design before graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2014. Co-opting craft traditions through playful gesture, Coco’s work breathes new life into historical forms, ranging from Victorian furniture to 20^th-century design icons. Weaving together function and fiction Coco’s work embodies a performativity, activated in the imagination of the viewer.

Select exhibitions include: Plan for Living, with Louise Bristow, Weald Contemporary, UK (2023); Contested Bodies, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK (2023-24); Women of the ‘20’s, Belmacz, London (2023); RA Summer Exhibition 2023, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2023); Like there is hope and I can dream of another world, Hauser & Wirth with Hospital Rooms, London, UK (2022); Domestic Wears, Belmacz, London (2020-2); Tender Touches, AMP Gallery, London (2019); Estragon, Belmacz, London (2019); The Artist Practitioner, The Shoe Factory, Norwich (2018); The Ghosts are in the House, Chopping Block Gallery, London (2018); If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Roaming Projects, London (2018), Alpenglühen: 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr, Belmacz, London (2017); Bowers: from form to public, Belmacz, London (2016); All Over, Studio_Leigh, London (2016); Looking At People, Looking At Art, Division of Labour, London (2016); Kingly Things Chandelier Projects, London (2015); Handles on Romance & Other Girls also Common Tongue, The Minories Galleries, Colchester (2015); Cassius Clay, Marcelle Joseph Projects, London (2014); Protected Space, two-person exhibition with Jonathan Baldock, Belmacz Gallery, London (2014); A Thing is a Thing is a Thing, The Minories Galleries, Colchester (2012); Slipped, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2012); Bonne Bouche, The Cut, Suffolk (2010); A Skvader, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich (2009); Views from Afar, Vulpes Vulpes, London (2009); Kunstwerk Bazaar, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich (2008); “18”, Centre Gallery, Berlin (2008); Swing, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich (2007); WYSIWYG, F.A.I.T. Krakow, Poland (2006).

Coco was shortlisted for the Dorich House Museum Residency in 2020, the Dentons Art Prize S/S 2018 and the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award in 2015. Coco received the Patricia Turner Sculpture Award in 2014 and the Hiscox Scholarship Award in 2013.

Coco lives and works in Devon (UK).