Girl Friday Breakfast Club with Eileen Cooper

Join us online for the Girl Friday Breakfast Club with Eileen Coooper RA on Friday 10 October 2025 at 8am (UK-time) convened by Anita Taylor.

Eileen Cooper has a drawing included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition. In the Studio, 2025 (Conté pastel and charcoal on paper, 128 x 97cm) is illustrated above, and is part of a series of over 100 large scale drawings athat explore a deliberate narrative of 'the artist at work'.

Eileen Cooper RA (b.1953 Glossop, Derbyshire, UK) studied at Goldsmiths College, London (1971-74) and the Royal College of Art, London (1974-77). Recent solo exhibitions include: Evergreen, The Academicians Room, Royal Academy of Arts London (2025); Eyes Wide Open, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2024). Recent group exhibitions include: Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2025); Light is Therefore Colour, Turner’s House Gallery, London (2025); Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK, Tate Britain, National Galleries Scotland, The Whitworth Manchester (2024-25); Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery Touring to Millennium Gallery Sheffield, Midlands Art Centre Birmingham, Arnolfini Bristol, Dundee Contemporary Art, and VISUAL Carlow (2024-26). An elected Royal Academician (2000), Eileen was awarded an OBE (2016), is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and an Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University. She lives and works in London in the UK.

Anita Taylor is an artist, curator and educator, a Professor and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee. She is the founding Director of the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize [since 1994] and Drawing Projects UK, a public-facing initiative dedicated to drawing [since 2009].

The Girl Friday Breakfast Club was established by Professors Kate Reynolds and Anita Taylor in 2018 to provide a friendly and informal space for women to meet and to hear from an interesting woman speaker, eat breakfast and drink great coffee or tea together at Drawing Projects UK on the last Friday of each month. We held our first online Girl Friday in October 2020 after realising we had longer to go before we could gather again for breakfast due to lockdown and have continued online ever since. We aim to retain the informal format, and events are not recorded, so do book to join in - and bring your own breakfast, or lunch or supper depending on where you are in the world! All women, and those who identify as women, are very welcome to join the Girl Friday Breakfast Club.

Joining the online event: Please note that the Zoom link to join this event will be made available in the online event information that you will find once you have registered for the event - you will need to log into Eventbrite to find this. You will then either need to click on the joining link OR copy and paste the link into your web browser to join the event on the day. Annual subscribers will receive joining information for this event by email.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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