A Conversation with Doctor Cooper
Join us at Newrybar Hall on May 24th at 4pm for a “conversation with Doctor Cooper”
Flowers, intuition and creativity, acknowledging and accepting the fleeting beauty and impermenance of life..
Listen to an in-depth conversation with Doctor Cooper and interviewer Lissie Turner as they dissect these topics and the basis of her current work and career.
An opportunity to join in the conversation with an open floor discussion.
Witness Doctor Cooper create her work with flowers in real time.
Delicious food, tunes with musician Hannah Darling, join a community of creatives gathering to enjoy an evening of beauty.
This will be a phone free/camera free even
DR LISA COOPER IS A FLORIST, ARTIST, AUTHOR AND DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY.
SHE HOLDS A DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY IN FINE ART FROM THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND IS A PERMANENT ARTIST RESIDENT OF THE MINT IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. DOCTOR COOPER STUDIO IS HER COMMERCIAL FLOWER BUSINESS SPANNING MAJOR INSTALLATIONS TO HAND DELIVERED FLOWER GESTURES.
DR COOPER’S WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN MANY AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL BOOKS, MAGAZINES, JOURNALS AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS. WHILE HER DISTINCTIVE FLOWER WORK HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED BY SOME OF THE MOST CELEBRATED IN THE BUSINESS AND ARTS WORLD INCLUDING, NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HERMÈS, DRIES VAN NOTEN, CARTIER, TIFFANY &CO, LANCÔME, PRADA, MASTERCARD, OMEGA, AESOP, THE NEW YORK TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES (LONDON) , VOGUE, HARPER’S BAZAAR, THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET, DEUTSCHE BANK, THE SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY, OPERA AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY AND POWERHOUSE MUSEUM.
DR.COOPER HAS MADE WORK ABROAD FOR NUMEROUS COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE CLIENTS. HER ESSAYS ON A PHILOSOPHY OF FLOWERS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN NUMEROUS AUSTRALIAN JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES. MURDOCH BOOKS PUBLISHED HER BOOK, THE FLOWERS, IN AUSTRALIA – NOVEMBER 2015, IN EUROPE – MARCH 2016 AND THE US – SEPTEMBER 2016. HER SECOND BOOK, DR LISA COOPER, WAS PUBLISHED IN PARIS, FRANCE IN OCTOBER 2022.