Date of birth: 1966

Place of birth: Portsmouth (England)

B.A.(hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University 1984 -1988

Selected Recent Group Exhibitions

1994        Dorset Art Week, Dorset

                Honiton Festival, Devon

                Group show, Studio 3 Gallery, London

                Group show, Galerie Internacionale de Arte, Portugal

                Eight Artists, Studio 3 Gallery, London

                Christmas Show, Studio 3 Gallery, Dorset

1995        East and West, Studio 3 Gallery, London

                Abstrart, Studio 3 Gallery, London

                East and West touring show, Heatherslow Gallery,

                Northumberland

                Group show, Galleriet, Norberg, Sweden

1996        Talents, Studio 3 Gallery, London

1997        Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London

                Six Contemporaries, Touring Exhibition

1998        Dorset Art Week

                Richmond Gallery, London

                Holland Gallery, London

1999        Portland Portrayed, The Gallery Dorchester

2000        Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset

                Dorset Art Week

2002        Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset

                Dorset Art Week

2003        Rostra Gallery, Bath

2004        Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset

                Chalk House Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

                Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London

                Dorset Art Week

                Withers Gallery, Norfolk

2005        Royal West of England Academy,Bristol. Open Painting

                Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. 153rd Autumn Exhibition

                New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey

2006        Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne Dorset

                New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey

                Dorset Art Week

                Innocent Fine Art, Bristol

                Maltby Art, Winchester, Hampshire

                Rostra Gallery, Bath

                Bournemouth University Art Loan Collection 2006/2007

                Fifty Wessex Artists, Brewhouse Gallery, Taunton

Solo Exhibitions

1987-92        Dorset County Library, Dorset

1989        Gallery 273, Queen Mary College, London

                Dance Attic Studio, London

1995        Justin Cooke, Allsop Gallery, Bridport Art Centre, Dorset

1996        Sea Sky and Landscape, Studio 3 Gallery, London

1988-06        Annual Summer Exhibition, Upwey, Weymouth, Dorset (nineteen exhibitions)

Awards

2005         Royal West of England Academy, Friends Prize

Bibliography

Books

Fifty Wessex Artists        Published by [EVOLVER] BOOKS. ISBN. 0955450306 © 2006, text by Fiona Robinson

Articles

Western Gazette                 August 1995

RWA magazine                 Issue No.38 Summer 2005, page 20, Open Painting and Friends Prize

The Artist Magazine        May 2006, pages 46-47, In conversation Justin Cooke, written by Tim Saunders

Reviews and Editorials

Arts Review                January 2002

Country Living                 January 2004

Dorset Evening Echo         Various from 1986 to present

Western Gazette                Various from 1988 to present

Other Publications

Bournemouth University Art Loan Collection 2006/2007        Published by Bournemouth University, Julie Herring, Curator, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset

The Field Paintings: Patterns, Marks and Memory

"The Landscape around the area in which I live is littered with marks and patterns. Some may be prehistoric; henges and enclosures, others medieval; in the form of field patterns and strip lynchetts. The patterns made by modern agriculture be it through ploughing or the mowing of hay seem to echo some of these older designs as they too follow the form of the landscape and it's geology. A whole history is recorded in these fields and hills, much of it now forgotten but occasionally revealed again to us, when the light is low and the grasses parched.

It is interesting to me that my paintings develop in the same way. Underlying marks are often covered, then scratched back through and revealed again. In this way my paintings reflect the same process. Marks and "pathways" on my paintings are also built up over time. Some of the older ones still show, others are lost but they all play a part in developing the finished effect. In this way I hope that my paintings also hold a "memory" of this landscape. For me it is also a personal one, as it is the landscape of my childhood.

Overall though it is a universal memory I can see. It is about our place in the landscape and noticing that others too have witnessed it. Their history is reflected in it and so is ours, it is a timeless link. I do like to think that the henge builder, the medieval farmer, generations children and their dogs (of which I was one), are all part of this memory. I can't help but feel sometimes that there is a particular bond that links us all through time, it is a collective memory and now I am part of it myself."