Emma Cocker is a writer-artist and Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research enquiry unfolds at the threshold between writing/art, involving diverse process-oriented, dialogic-collaborative and aesthetic-poetic approaches to working with and through language. Cocker often works in collaboration with other artists on durational projects, where the studio-gallery or site-specific context is approached as a live laboratory for shared artistic research. Cocker’s writing has been published in Failure, 2010; Stillness in a Mobile World, 2010; Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought, 2011; Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, 2012; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, 2017; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, 2018; Live Coding: A User's Manual, 2023, and in the solo collections, The Yes of the No, 2016, and How Do You Do?, 2025. Cocker is co-founder of the international Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. See also https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-7839

Launch: COPY publication


COPY publication Launch and Party

Site Gallery, Sheffield
Thursday 6 September 6 – 8pm


As part of COPY’s residency at Site Gallery, this event presents work by Joanna Loveday and Charlotte Morgan, a series of commissioned prints by Daniel Fogarty, Louisa Martin, Ami Clarke and Fay Nicolson and Oliver Smith, and launches a new publication Papers, Fictions, Scripts and Circles. Papers, Fictions, Scripts and Circles features contributions from David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham, Ami Clarke, Emma Cocker, Patrick Coyle, Jamie Crewe, Simon Cutts, Kit Hammonds, Lynn Harris, Jennifer Hodgson, Simon Lewandowski,  Francis McKee, Tamarin Norwood, David Osbaldeston, Alun Rowlands and Erica Van Horn, and acts as an index to the Saturday Brunch Conversations which will be available for listening here.