Caroline Coon

Caroline Coon is a British artist, journalist and political activist, best known for her large-scale painted works challenging patriarchal and binary sexual stereotypes.

She initially trained as a figurative painter at Central St Martins in the 1960s and has since covered significant cultural changes including the hippie movement, punk and feminism.

Coon is interested in the honest depictions of the human nude. In 1995 her work Mr Olympia was banned from display at Tate Liverpool because it showed an erect penis. More recently her practice has developed to incorporate a range of subjects including her neighbourhood Ladbroke Grove, in a series of narrative urban landscapes.

In 2018 she was given her first painting solo exhibition at The Gallery Liverpool, and later this year a solo exhibition of her works will open at TRAMPS Gallery in London.