Biography
John A. Hooper (b. Casablanca, Morocco 1939) studied at Camberwell School of Art, 1958–62; Royal College of Art, 1962–5; in latter year won the J Andrew Lloyd Royal College Scholarship for Landscape, which took him to Greece, and an Italian Government Scholarship, to Perugia. A French Government Scholarship enabled Hooper to work in Paris in 1965–6, a Canada Council Grant facilitating travel in Canada and to New York in 1969. He also taught in Canada on several occasions. Mixed shows included Young Contemporaries at RBA Galleries from 1960; with The London Group from 1961; John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, 1963; RA Summer Exhibition, 1965; and Wapping Artists Open Studios from 1980. In 1987 Hooper was in The Summer Show at Jariwala Gallery and in 1989 East End Open Studios, at Carpenter’s Road. Solo shows included University of Surrey, Guildford, 1976, and Central Space, 1987.
