Caroline Coon

Caroline Coon

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Caroline Coon is a English artist, journalist and political activist, born in 1945. Her artwork, which often explores sexual themes from a feminist standpoint (she is bisexual),cite web |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,348486,00.html |title=Still fighting the bad guys |publisher=The Observer |date=2000-07-28 |accessdate=2008-01-29 |first=Barbara |last=Ellen ] has been exhibited at many major London galleries, including the Saatchi Gallery and the Tate.

Trained as a figurative painter, Coon became involved in the 1960s underground movement in London while still attending art school. In 1967 she founded Release, an agency set up to provide legal advice and arrange legal representation for young people charged with the possession of drugs. She remains politically active, campaigning primarily for feminist causes, including the legalisation of prostitution.

In the 1970s, Coon became involved in the London punk scene, writing about the bands for "Melody Maker" and providing artwork for groups such as The Clash (whom she briefly managed) and The Police. In the "Punky Business" (punk rock) episode of the BBC comedy series "The Goodies", Jane Asher plays a parody of Coon ("Caroline Kook"), the dream lover of Tim Brooke-Taylor's aspiring punk rock star.

Coon inspired the Robert Wyatt song "O Caroline", The Stranglers' "London Lady", and (according to Coon herself)Fact|date=January 2008 Bob Dylan's "She Belongs To Me" (though this claim is highly questionable; most Dylan experts would argue that the song is actually about either Joan Baez or Dylan's future wife Sara).Fact|date=February 2008

In June 2000, Coon won damages of £73,000 from publisher Random House after author Jonathon Green, in his 1998 book "All Dressed Up: the Sixties and the Counter-Culture", suggested that in Release's early days she traded sexual favours for donations. The book was withdrawn.

Publications

*"The Release Report on Drug Offenders and the Law", Sphere Books, 1969, ISBN 0722124457
*"1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion", Hawthorn Books, 1977, ISBN 0801561299

References

External links

* [http://www.carolinecoon.com/ www.carolinecoon.com]
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