Craig Cook
My Work
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Craig Cook is a recent graduate of the Wintec Master of Art programme. Cook's work continues to challenge both definitions of art and nature- revealing the limits of human perception of nature.
My process involves walking a stretch of rough South Canterbury coastline (Seadown Beach) that I have become familiar with over the course of my life. The ecology of Seadown Beach is exposed and vulnerable through a combination of human induced and natural forces. Remnants of a forgotten past become human detritus able to be unearthed and allowing the past to open up to the present. The hypnotic pulsing and crashing of waves and the wisp of salt air circulating around me enhance a white noise and contemplative state of mind - a state of mind that considers ways of communicating a phenomenological response to this environment. The fragility and transitional state of the charcoal medium enhances the concept that memories are often fragmentary, containing mere traces of forgotten events. The immediacy of mark making on paper allows the mind to communicate unscripted information. The documenting of these marks and erasures gives a visual voice to an idea or thought that can be observed in our physical reality 
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My art seeks to open a dialogue with the environment.” |
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Achievements
EDUCATION
2019, Hamilton Wintec Institute of Technology - Master of Arts with Distinction
2017, Dunedin School of Art - Bachelor of Visual Art Honours with second class Honours
2016, Dunedin School of Art - Bachelor of Visual Art with Merit
2015, Timaru Aoraki Polytechnic Diploma in Visual Art level 6 with Distinction
2014, Timaru Aoraki Polytechnic Diploma in Visual Art level 5 with Distinction
2019, Hamilton Wintec Institute of Technology - Master of Arts with Distinction
2017, Dunedin School of Art - Bachelor of Visual Art Honours with second class Honours
2016, Dunedin School of Art - Bachelor of Visual Art with Merit
2015, Timaru Aoraki Polytechnic Diploma in Visual Art level 6 with Distinction
2014, Timaru Aoraki Polytechnic Diploma in Visual Art level 5 with Distinction
ACHIEVEMENTS
2017, Acquisition for Wallace Trust Collection - "Earth magnitude on Seadown beach"
2015, Samantha Wallace Memorial Award Polychrome Exhibition
2014, Samantha Wallace Memorial Award Polychrome Exhibition
2015, Certificate of Achievement in Visual Culture
2017, Acquisition for Wallace Trust Collection - "Earth magnitude on Seadown beach"
2015, Samantha Wallace Memorial Award Polychrome Exhibition
2014, Samantha Wallace Memorial Award Polychrome Exhibition
2015, Certificate of Achievement in Visual Culture
EXHIBITIONS
2019, Seadown Beach: Art Practices on the Littoral Zone
ArtBox Christchurch
Masters Exhibition
2018, Polychrome
Aigantighe Art Gallery Timaru
Work by Ara Art and Design PostGraduate students
2018, Ecology
A.S Gallery, Web Farry Law,Dunedin
Solo Show
2017 , Site Dunedin School of Art
2016 , Site Dunedin School of Art
2015 , Polychrome Aigantighe Art Gallery Timaru
2015 , Show Us Your Art Kickstarter
2014 , Polychrome Aigantighe Art Gallery Timaru
2019, Seadown Beach: Art Practices on the Littoral Zone
ArtBox Christchurch
Masters Exhibition
2018, Polychrome
Aigantighe Art Gallery Timaru
Work by Ara Art and Design PostGraduate students
2018, Ecology
A.S Gallery, Web Farry Law,Dunedin
Solo Show
2017 , Site Dunedin School of Art
2016 , Site Dunedin School of Art
2015 , Polychrome Aigantighe Art Gallery Timaru
2015 , Show Us Your Art Kickstarter
2014 , Polychrome Aigantighe Art Gallery Timaru