William Cooke

William Cooke is a Sydney based artist whose practice adopts abstraction to explore the intricacies of the human condition through design, music and art history. He produces independent physical objects that aim to transcend the mind and body. His work operates between the modes of abstraction and design to breach the relationship between form, surface, and the viewer. He makes illusion-based paintings that begin a dialogue, and thus, the work develops a sensory relationship with the viewer. Cooke utilises various supports, such as aluminum, canvas, paper and light to concrete his ideas in the physical.

Cooke completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) in 2011. He has held numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. William is represented by Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney. 

Cooke’s solo exhibition Every wall is a Door will take place at Starkwhite Gallery in Auckland in January 2021.