Profiles
Mr Christopher Cook
Associate Professor (Reader) in Painting
School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)
Role
Painting Area Coordinator (Fine Art)
Land/Water Research Steering Group
Faculty Research Committee
Research Mentoring sub-committee
Research Environment Committee
Qualifications
M.A. (RCA)
Italian Government Scholar
Teaching interests
Surrealism
English Landscape Tradition
Italian Renaissance Painting
Indian Art
Japanese Art
Research interests
Research through practice drawing/painting interfaces
late pagan/early Christian Roman architecture
photographic references in contemporary painting
Indian Art
Japanese and Chinese Ink Painting traditions
Other research
Contemporary Poetry
Phenomenology
Systems Texts
Zen Buddhism
Grants & contracts
AHRB Small Grant 2000
Arts Council of England Award 2000- 2001
British Council Grant to Artists 2004
AHRC Small Grant 2005
Creative practice & artistic projects
Solo shows (2004 -)
Art Museum,University of Memphis , USA
Hirschl Contemporary Art London
CalState University, Long Beach, USA
Yokohama Museum, Japan
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Mary Ryan Gallery New York
Fine Art Society London
Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
Langgeng Foundation, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
forthcoming:
Mary Ryan Gallery New York October 2013
Research groups
- Centre for Media, Art & Design Research (MADr)
6 exhibition catalogues
3 artist bookworks
3 volumes of Poetry
Reports & invited lectures
University of Memphis USA 2004
CalState Long Beach USA 2004
Moshashino University, Tokyo, Japan 2005
Links
www.cookgraphites.com