Here is a wide-ranging selection of Caroline Coon’s work over the years, from an early college study and her banned ‘Mr Olympia’ to her defiant and honest ‘Self with Delphinium age 70’. Worthy of note are political statements like ‘Oz Trio’, featuring the prosecuted editors Richard Neville, Felix Dennis and Jim Anderson from the celebrated obscenity trial of 1971, and ‘Valerie Solanas’ with her 1967 SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, appropriately accompanied by a severed member. We have also included several of the ‘Ladbroke Grove’ series, together with the much-discussed ‘Rush Hour: She Strips them Naked with her Eyes’, in which the men ogling naked bodies in the tabloids on their way to work are shown stripped naked themselves, any offence caused by her work exposing our own hypocrisy.
Here are the titles and dates of the works we have chosen to represent Caroline Coon’s extensive output:
Pieces, 1966
Mr Olympia, 1983
Peter Campbell the Electrician, 1985
Goal, 1989
Sheltering, 1991
Pieta, 1992
Women of Ladbroke Grove, Carnival, 1992
Defender, 1994
Oz Trio, 1995
Flamenco Dancer 2, 1996
Flamenco Dancer 3, 1996
Sexes, 1996
The Family, 1996
Striker, 1998
World Hotel Room, 1998
CUNT, 1999
Prostitutes, Stone the Hypocrites! 2002
See, He is Absolutely Gorgeous! 2002
Self with Lilies, 2002
Valerie Solanas, 2002
Self in Cock Mask, 2003
Ocean, 2004
Rush Hour: She Strips them Naked with her Eyes, 2004
Sex, Love, 2004
Ladbroke Grove: Dancing in the Street, 2006
Adam and Eve in Ladbroke Grove, 2007
Early Morning, Harrow Road, 2008
A Fast Rucking Game, 2009
A Sweet Lob from 25 Yards, 2009
Fallin’ Sunrise, 2009
Midnight (after Wilhelm Hammershoi), 2009
Gender-blurring Tangles, 2013
Self with Delphinium age 70, 2016