As a mixed media artist using primarily handmade abaca paper and simple printing techniques to create room sized installations, sculpture and miniature books I primarily focus on familial, social and political issues concerning children. The work depicts the pressures that the children of today have to endure. The increased divorce rate and having to cope with a split family, growing up in a society that values beauty, dress and popularity above almost anything else and the vulnerability to predators and bulling due to the meteoric rise is social media. I have also been considering the historical treatment of what Western countries saw as problem children and more recently the thousands of unaccompanied minors arriving at our borders from Central America.
Pam Cooper: The Spiral
Spiral Statement.
Things have changed a little since I first started my career in Pharmacy, being told that because I was a woman I would go no higher. But the change is very small and grudgingly given. For a woman the stairway to higher positions in the corporate world are still very difficult to climb.
