BIOGRAPHY
Paul Crook studied BA(Hon) Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art and MA Fine Art at Birmingham Polytechnic. He is based in Warwickshire working as a fine artist/painter and lecturer in Fine Art. Since graduating from university his paintings have been selected for exhibitions in the UK and overseas.
2019 - 2020 Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art
Spot the Artist, Porthmoer Studios, St.Ives Cornwall
Taster, Temperance Gallery, Leamington Spa
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Leamington Spa Art Gallery Open Exhibition
2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
New Light Art Prize, Touring Exhibition
BEEP Painting Biennial, Swansea, Wales
GM Art Prize, Stockport Art Gallery, Manchester
Balance Artist Workhouse Studley Arts Festival
The KPP Prize ‘Forms Assembled in the Light’ Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
Derwent Drawing Prize, Mall Galleries and Touring Exhibition
2016 - 2017 Northern Routes 2021 Visual Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
Winter Show, Byard Art Gallery, Cambridge
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells
Bankley Open Call, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
This must be the place I never wanted to leave, Wales International
Painting Prize. Touring exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Precious Little, touring exhibition, Athens contemporary art fair and
Harrington Mill Gallery, Nottingham.
Trygve Lie Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2014 - 2015 Common Land, Custom House Gallery, Westport, Ireland
Sir Terry Frost Gallery, Worcester
Winter Exhibition, Custom House Gallery, Westport.
Matter. Place. Another, Gallery 202
Hometown, Hemingwayart, Oxford
Grey, Harrington Mill Gallery, Nottingham
2012 - 2013 SPACE 2 Gallery, Watford
MAC, Birmingham
Market Place Arts Centre, Armagh, N. Ireland
BEEP 2012 Wales International Contemporary Painting Prize
Houses, Bungalows and Flats, Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax
2011 Drawing Connections, Sienna Arts Institute, Sienna, Italy
Nottingham Castle Open - Prize winner, Ian Robertson Award
Through a Glass Lightly, Gocart Gallery, Visby, Gotland, Sweden
Leamington Open – 1st Prize winner, Leamington Art Gallery
2010 - 2007 Harrington Mill Gallery, Nottingham
Leamington Open, Leamington Art Gallery
Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
2000 – 2002 Caught in the Act, Wall Painting Project, Stroud House Gallery
Droichead Arts Centre, Ireland
Bedford Hill Gallery, London
Site and Sound, Warwick Museum
Exhibition 5, Spitalfields Studio Gallery, London
Recent paintings, Monaghan County Museum and Art Gallery, Ireland
1993 - 1999 New Paintings, Bond Wharf Gallery, Birmingham
Art on the Move, Warwick
Heart of England Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
Coventry Open, Herbert Art Gallery. Coventry
1985 – 1992 White Walls, Kargo Studios, Hull
Hull Open, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
BBC Contemporary Art Competition, Salford Art Gallery, Manchester
Germinations 4, Biennale des Ecoles d’Art European Touring Exhibition, Marseille, Breda, London, Bonn
The Leicestershire Exhibition, Beaumanor Hall, Leicester
Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough
International Exhibition Centre, Toulouse, France
Four Painters, Cambourne College, Cornwall