Lorraine Cooke

Born Norwich, England. Lorraine Cooke is a professional artist and curator; she has exhibited widely throughout the UK and internationally. Her work is an exploration of contemporary landscape painting. She graduated from Norwich school of Art and Design with a BA (hons) in Fine Art in 2003 and Northampton University with an MA in Fine Art in 2011. Cooke works between Norwich and Paphos (Cyprus.) She is currently shortlisted for the Beep Painting biennial 2022. Her work and writings have been featured in numerous publications. She curated the 'Rebirth' exhibition at Art1821 (an international exhibition in collaboration with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.) She facilitated a number of projects for the Paphos ‘European Capital of Culture 2017’ programme and was awarded the Bonarota prize for painting. Cooke is noted as a Saatchi Art ‘Artist of recognition’ with works included in the ‘Inspired by Miro’ Saatchi Collection and the 'Spectacular Abstracts' Artzine collection. She was awarded the AA2A 'Artist of the year' prize (Artists Access to Art school, national UK residency scheme) following a residency at Norwich University of the Arts.

Personal Statement:
The current exploration of what is best described as inscape draws up...

2011- Graduated from Northampton University with an MA in Fine Art - Winner of the Bonarota Michaelangelo Award.

2003- Graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design with a BA (hons) in Fine Art.

1999- BTec National Foundation diploma in Art and Design, Norwich School of Art and Design.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS For full exhibition history please visit
www.brush.bio/lorraine-cooke.
2022 Beep painting biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales. 29th July- 10th Sept 2022.

2022 Fauna and Flora, The Yare Gallery, Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk. 1st July- 1st September 2022.

2021 Open Art 2021, Curat10n Arts, London.

2021 Summer exhibition, The Yare Gallery , Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

2021 Spring Open 2021, Absent gallery, Somerset.

2020 Open exhibition- Nature/ Humanity, Curat10n, London.

2020 36th Annual Open exhibition, Southwark Park galleries, London.

2020 Bath Society of Artists Annual exhibition, Victoria Art gallery, Bath.

2020 Graduating in Paint: Painting Now exhibition, LARA Atelier, London.

2018 RCA Secret 2018, the Darwin building, The Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London.

2018 Spectacular Abstracts Collection, Artzine international painting collection, Artzine.

2018 Hahnemule touring Print exhibition 2017- 2018 UK. RedDot Art Consultancy:

Art Space- Cambridge, The New Cut- Halesworth, Nunn’s Yard- Norwich, Garage

Gallery- Norwich, Tiny Nijman studio and Gallery- Stow- on- the- Wold,

The Cotswolds, Artspace- Woodbridge, Suffolk, Wingfield Barns Galleries, Suffolk. UK.

2017 Art in response to M...