LONDON.- James Hyman Gallery announced its representation of Caroline Coon, one of the most important counter-culture figures of the last sixty years. The gallery will offer major paintings that reveal the range and power of her extraordinary career from multi-figure compositions to urban landscapes and exuberant still-lifes.

Caroline Coon (b. 1945, London) is a British artist, writer, photographer and feminist activist whose work brings together post-war figuration, sexual politics and counter-cultural history. Trained at Northampton College of Art and Central Saint Martins, her painting employs a precise, heightened figurative language through which bodies, desire and social power are examined with directness and wit. Her paintings resist fixed categories of gender and sexuality, proposing instead a fluid field of identity, autonomy and self-representation.

Coon co-founded Release in 1967, a legal-advice organisation supporting young people facing drug-related charges, and later became closely associated with the punk scene in London as a writer, photographer and manager of The Clash. Across subjects including women and men, she/he humans, sex workers, footballers, urban landscapes and flowers, her work insists on feminism as lived politics: a challenge to respectability, patriarchy and the policing of bodies.

James Hyman: "I have admired Caroline Coon for many years as a radical voice in British cultural life. Across painting, photography, writing and activism, Caroline’s work is distinguished by courage, intelligence and an unwavering commitment to freedom, feminism and social justice. It has been a privilege to care for and exhibit Caroline’s photography for many years, during which our professional relationship has grown into a valued friendship. I am deeply honoured that Caroline has now entrusted James Hyman Gallery with the representation of her artwork. We look forward to placing Caroline’s paintings with museums and private collections, and to advancing recognition of an artist whose work combines immediate impact with lasting historical significance."





Caroline Coon: "Over the many years that I have known James Hyman as he has exhibited and cared for my photography archive, I have experienced and benefited from his scrupulous professionalism, his philanthropy, his passion for art as well as his personal kindness. It has been exhilarating to have had such scholarly, individualised attention given to my photography. Now, I am delighted that James has agreed to continue this personalised, bespoke approach as a dealer for my artwork as well."

Caroline Coon’s work is held in important public and private collections including The Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.