ABOUT

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Max Couper, 2002, awarded The Freedom of The City of London.

 

Max Couper: Born 1957, Lindfield, Sussex.

1966-1975: Educated Croydon & Redhill. School qualifications: 9 O-levels & 3 A-levels in French, Geography and Economics.

1974-1975: Inspired by a local artist, attends evening courses additionally passing Art O and A-levels.

1975-1976: Art Foundation Course, Croydon Art College.

1976-1979: BA (Hons) Fine Art degree, Brighton.

1978: First solo exhibition; The Performing Garage, New York City.

1980: First solo museum exhibition; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

1996 & 1997: Solo exhibitions at major art museums in Antwerp, Duisburg & Hannover.

1998: The Couper Art Collection of his work opened to the public in association with The London Borough of Wandsworth.

2000 & 2002: The Couper Collection featured as a Focus Site of the London String of Pearls Millennium and Golden Jubilee Festivals.

2000: Created his Fleeting Opera opera/ballet on the Thames, performed by the London Royal Opera, Royal Ballet and Judi Dench.

1980-2014: Lived Chelsea Reach, London.

2006: Married. 

2007: The Coupers' daughter is born.

2022; Currently lives and works in Sussex with his family where his collection of his artwork and studio is located.

SEE CV here.

 

The Couper Collection Diamond Jubilee Bridge, created by Max Couper, was dedicated during the sail-by of HM The Queen and Her Thames Jubilee Pageant on 3 June 2012(pictured top left) .

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Mrs and Mr Couper, 3 June 2012, with Jubilee Children’s Art created under their tuition, Christ Church School Chelsea.

Magdalena and Max Couper

Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London 2004.

“The Couper Collection is the sort of activity my London Plan seeks to promote …. I strongly support the maintenance and facilities .... it has substantial public funding and a high level of political support.”

 

Mayor of London

 

2002 children’s art collaboration with The National Portrait Gallery London.

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HRH The Prince of Wales & Max Couper, St James’s Palace 31 October 2001.

HRH The Prince of Wales was a Patron of The London String of Pearls 2002 Golden Jubilee Festival, of which the Couper Collection was a Focus Site.

HRH The Prince of Wales and Max Couper, St James’s Palace 31 October

Max Couper with his tug Pablo 2000. On board the Couper Collection, part of the London String of Pearls Millennium Festival 2000.

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Max Couper with Judi Dench 2000.

Couper worked with Judi Dench, The Royal Opera & The Royal Ballet to create his Fleeting Opera for the River Thames, presented at the UK Close of Parliament & to riverside audiences 2000.

Max Couper with Judi Dench 2000.

 

2000, The Royal Opera House reports on its “ambitious”, “unusual” and “challenging” Fleeting Opera project with Max Couper – “the unique ambiance of movement, light and sound transmitted over water”.

The Royal Opera House

1999. Max Couper invited by UNESCO Director General Federico Mayor Zaragoza & writer Umberto Eco to assist writing a UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Identities.

Other invitees included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dario Fo, Adolfo Esquivel, Michel Serres, Hubert Reeves, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Bragg, Richard Eyre, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Jeremy Irons, Spike Lee, David Puttnam & Salman Rushdie.

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Max Couper, The Plot, Three Museums and Four Cities

Series of one-man exhibitions & events 1996 & 1997 in Antwerp, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, & Hanover. A tugboat & towed barge tour along N. European waterways & across the Channel. Published by Booth Clibborn 1998. Text by Marina Vaizey.

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Max Couper 1991, on board The Couper Art Collection barges, by London’s Albert Bridge.

Max Couper 1991

 

Max Couper, barge handling on the River Thames 1990

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Max Couper, 1980, in performance with The Dead Trousers at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

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Max Couper, 1968, age 11. Age 9 Couper’s family move to Surrey, before going on to a school in Croydon from 1968 to 1973.

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Max Couper’s parents; John from Sussex & Eileen from London, in the 1950’s.

Age 4 to 17, Couper, courtesy of his father’s job as an airline executive, travelled extensively to Russia, Africa, Europe & the United States, and once a year to Southern Italy.

Max Couper’s parents

 

Artist’s maternal grandfather John Sylvester Galli,

pictured early C20th. Drover, b. Florence Italy, moved 1890’s to London. Couper professional name is from the Galli Couper Italian side of his mother’s family, which included opera singers, stone sculptors, fishermen & a bridge builder.

Artist’s maternal great grandfather John Sylvester Galli

 

Max Couper in diapers at 18 months old.

Max Couper, born 1957 in Lindfield, Sussex, middle of 3 boys.

The artist in diapers at 18 months old
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