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Barrie Cooke Exhibition September 14th – October 9th An important exhibition of paintings by Barrie Cooke will take place at the Fenton Gallery in Cork this September. Quite a span of Cooke’s work will be represented, including large oils of Lough Arrow where he lives, green New Zealand landscapes and the fish imagery for which he is so well known. The startling colour of his lake paintings often allude to changes in the lake’s environment which have been caused by pollution. One of Ireland’s most eminent contemporary painters, Cooke has exhibited widely throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada. Major retrospectives include shows in the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 1986, the Haags Gemeentemuseum in 1992, and LAC, Perignan, France in 1995. His work is represented in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland, and in many other public and private collections worldwide. Born in England in 1931, Cooke moved to the U.S. as a teenager and studied Art History in Harvard University. He moved to Ireland in 1954 and had his first solo in Dublin the following year. Though he has been based in Ireland ever since, he is widely travelled and his richly expressionist, semi abstract paintings have been strongly influenced by time spent in such far-flung places as Lapland, New Zealand, Borneo and Malaya. Nature in its infinite variety and irresistible flux is his chosen environment and subject matter. |
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