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Artist Exhibitions:
Postgraduate Diploma
Exhibition:
At 'Cyprus College of Art'
featuring work by Lorraine
Cooke 14th- 22nd May 2011.
Cyprus College of Art, 6
Eleftherias Street, Lempa,
Paphos, Cyprus. All welcome.
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Rebirth:
An exhibition of contemporary
Japanese art and Japanese
inspired art curated by
Lorraine Cooke in
collaboration with the
Unearthed exhibition ...
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Artist Galleries:
Stass Paraskos Gallery,
Cyprus College of Art, Lemba,
Cyprus
Art1821,
Augustine Steward House,
Tombland, Norwich, Norfolk,
England. UK...
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Artist Reviews:
About the artist:
Born Norwich, England.
Cooke graduated from Norwich
School of Art and Design in
2003 with a BA(hons) in Fine
Art. Since graduating Cooke
has been working as a
professional artist and
curator. In 2004 she was
shortlisted for the Babylon
gallery Award for an emerging
artist ...
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Collections:
Work in a number of private
collections. Please email me
for sales enquiries at
raincooke@googlemail.com. ...
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Commissions:
Commissions welcomed, please
contact me at
raincooke@googlemail.com. ...
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Artist Statement for Lorraine Cooke
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The current exploration of what is best described as 'inscape' draws upon the history of landscape genre in painting and is an attempt to rationalize the landscape in which I find myself. I use 'landscape' in the broadest sense of the word, not excluding the landscape of the mind. But why landscape with all of its stereotypical connotations? The answer is simple- of the many constituents that form the human psyche our relationship with the environment is essential:
"Nature is the biggest of the big pictures. We worship and loathe it, sanctify and destroy it... Subject both of science and art, the landscape functions as a mirror and a lens: in it we see the space we occupy and ourselves as we occupy it. And have consistently sought to connect in some level with the landscape."
My paintings mark the contemporary relevance or apparent neglect of landscape art, which seems to have lost its focus over the later part of the last century. Having been superseded by the complexity and confusion of practice, which could be construed as artistically introspective.
-Quotation: An extract from a survey by Brian Wallis. ('Land and Environmental Art.')
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