Greg Rook (born 1971 in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

) is an English painter, known for contemporary figurative paintings capturing the hopes, dreams and successes as well as the disappointments, disillusionment and disasters that radical departures from home life and mainstream society can entail. He studied at

Chelsea School of Art Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London based in London, United Kingdom, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation. It offers further and higher educat ...

1997–2000 and

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

2000–2002. In 2014 he was shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize. Since 2016 he teaches Fine Art at the London Southbank University.

Solo exhibitions

* 2019 - ''Honyocker'', V&A Space, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan * 2016 - ''Off-Grid'', The Storeroom, London * 2015 - ''Off-Grid'', The Aldridge Gallery, Farnham * 2013 - ''On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy'', Fred London Ltd * 2012 - ''Survivors'', OMT Gallery, London * 2009 - ''Clean Skins'', Vegas Gallery, London * 2007 - ''We Live Like This'', Lounge Gallery, London * 2005 - ''Myth II'', Gallery Min Min, Tokyo * 2005 - ''Myth'', Gallery Min Min, Tokyo * 2004 - ''Salvation is a Cowgirl'', Adam Street, London * 2004 - ''The Importance of Disappointment'', Electric Palace, Hastings * 2003 - ''Sirens'', Gallery Min Min, Tokyo * 2001 - ''Greg Rook'', Gallery Min Min, Tokyo

Selected group exhibitions

* 2015 - ''Autocatalytic Future Games'', No Format, London * 2015 - ''The Office of Gravitational Documents'', Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris * 2015 - ''Sunday in the Park with Ed'', Display Gallery, London * 2015 - ''Present Tense'', Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, England * 2014 - ''The Zeitgeist Open 2014'', Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London * 2014 - ''Paint Britain'', Ipswich Art School Gallery, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, England * 2014 - ''Priseman/Seabrook Collection'', Huddersfield Art Gallery, England * 2014 - ''East London Painting Prize'', Bow Arts, London * 2013 - ''The Things of Life'', Flowers, London * 2013 - ''Timeslip'', Gallery Stock, Berlin * 2012 - ''Marmite IV'', UK * 2012 - ''Passage'', Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples * 2012 - ''Augment'', Catalyst Arts, Belfast * 2012 - ''Past and Present'', OMT Gallery, London * 2012 - ''The Perfect Nude'', The Charlie Smith Gallery, London * 2011 - ''The Perfect Nude'', Wimbledon Space, London * 2011 - ''Crash Open'', Charlie Dutton Gallery, London * 2011 - ''Graceland'', Trailer, London * 2010 - ''Crash Open'', Charlie Dutton Gallery, London * 2009 - ''I am by birth a Genovese'', Galerie Forde, Geneva * 2009 - ''These Here United States'', Master Piper, London * 2009 - ''The Royal Republic'', Master Piper, London * 2009 - ''Giddee up!'', University of the Arts, London * 2007 - ''Wintry'', Lounge Gallery, London * 2006 - ''Sensuous Panorama'', Lounge Gallery, London * 2006 - ''Brownfield'', Lounge Gallery, London and Mac, Birmingham * 2005 - ''A Moment in Time'', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin * 2005 - ''The Lost Night'', The Prenelle Gallery, London * 2005 - ''Current Vision'', Sartorial Contemporary Art, London * 2005 - ''Urban Bodies'', 127 Brick Lane, London * 2004 - ''Caution - Uneven Surfaces'', Temporary Contemporary, London * 2004 - ''SV04'', Studio Voltaire, London * 2003 - ''Godzilla'', Trailer, London * 2002 - ''The Four Colleges'', AT Kearney, London * 2000 - ''Future Map 2000'', The London Institute, London * 2000 - ''Summer Contemporary'', Blains Fine Art, London * 1999 - ''The Last Show on Earth'', Clerkenwell, London

Collections

* The Madison Museum of Fine Art, Georgia * The Swindon Museum and Art Gallery *

The Priseman Seabrook Collection The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based private collection founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Wor ...

* The Devereux Collection * The Lesmes Collection * The David Roberts Collection * The University of the Arts Collection

Bibliography

* James Brooks, ''Greg Rook: We Live Like This'', Lounge Gallery, London, 2007. * Matt Price, Andrea Vento, Joe Gilmore, Michele Robecchi, ''Greg Rook: Honyocker'', Anomie Publishing, London, 2019.

Press

*Creegan, Matthew
5 Things You Need to Know About Greg Rook
''The Culture Trip'', March 2015. *Mercer, Alison
An Interview with Greg Rook
2012 *Lack, Jessica
Greg Rook: We Live Like This
''The Guardian'', February 2007.

References

External links

Greg Rook Official Web Site
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