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Nigel Cooke

Nigel Cooke (Born 1973) is known for Figurative, abstract painting, atmospherics.

Nigel Cooke is known for evocative works that merge figurative forms with abstract and elemental atmospherics.

Since the late 1990s, Cooke has explored and stretched the boundaries of figurative painting, creating a highly diverse and distinctive body of work. More recently, his work has assessed this output, moving into a succinct language with which to investigate his wide range of interests.
Informed by a range of fields from palae-ontology, neuroscience, classical mythology and zoology, the linear construction of Cooke’s latest paintings recalls brain circuitry, the human or animal body and landscape formations simultaneously.

The artist is interested in folding familiar dualities such as the mind and body, or the human brain and the natural world, into a single fluid gesture. His organic abstractions are loaded with mammalian and geological fragments, creating an instability and movement in the image as well as an ambiguity between a vast array of natural associa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3858 characters.]  Artist bio

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