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The Passion of the Red Army (In the Collection of Trevor Johnson, VIA Communications)
1999, Football jersey material off-prints |
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Aerial View of the Harbour, Marseilles (Arts Council of England Collection)
1999, Football jersey material off-prints |
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Installation New Contemporaries
1999, Football jersey material off-prints |
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b.1967 Gloucestershire, England
1997-98 MA Painting, Manchester Metropolitan University
1986-89 BA Painting, University of Sunderland
Ben Cook has held several solo exhibitions and has been included in many group
shows, most notably John Moores 18, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 1993 and East,
Norwich in the same year.
The series of Found Paintings won the 1998 Pebeo International Painting competition
in Marseilles France. Ben Cook’s work is held in the collections of Whitworth
Art Gallery Manchester, Atlas Manchester and the Arts Council of England.
Ben Cook's Found Paintings are reappropriated fabrics originally destined for the manufacture of football shirts. Flawed during their production, the artist selects these mistakes and by stretching them onto a support, the misaligned prints, creases, and failing ink jet traces take on the language of painting. Rejects are salvaged to make works of value.
Notes from conversations on the artists' work held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrisey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des lawrence.
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