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Peter Coker : Mind and Matter

Past exhibition
5 April - 13 May 2017 Piano Nobile
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Peter Coker Aldeburgh I, 1964 Oil on board 121.9 x 121.9 cm 48 x 48 in
Peter Coker
Aldeburgh I, 1964
Oil on board
121.9 x 121.9 cm
48 x 48 in

Peter Coker: Mind and Matter presented a selection of exceptional works by Peter Coker (1926-2004), bringing together pieces spanning the early 1950s through to the mid-1980s. The first exhibition of Coker’s works in over a decade, the show reassessed Coker’s contribution to post-war figurative British art, drawing on the gallery’s long-standing association with Coker during and after his lifetime.

 

Situating Coker within his contemporary British zeitgeist, Peter Coker: Mind and Matter also focused on the significance of international artists to Coker’s work, particularly Gustave Courbet and Nicolas de Staël. Undertaking modern day pilgrimages across France, Coker toured the sites favoured by the artists he revered, filtering their influence through the specificity of place. Coker was too talented an artist to mimic, but with acute sensitivity and perception, his vision of the world was constantly altered by the art that touched him. Correspondingly, his mode of depiction was subject to an ever-persistent evolution but with the materiality of paint and the primacy of process always at the heart of his practice. In Coker’s words: “I think when you see exhibitions…you challenge your own thoughts, you refurbish the mind and eye, you are remoulded.”

 

The exhibition was accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue.

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Works
  • Peter Coker, Ferndale, Rhondda, 1952
    Peter Coker, Ferndale, Rhondda, 1952
  • Peter Coker, Ystrad, Rhondda, 1952
    Peter Coker, Ystrad, Rhondda, 1952
  • Peter Coker, Dowlais Steel Works, Cardiff, 1952
    Peter Coker, Dowlais Steel Works, Cardiff, 1952
  • Peter Coker, Dead Hare, 1955 c.
    Peter Coker, Dead Hare, 1955 c.
  • Peter Coker, Still Life with Fish, 1957
    Peter Coker, Still Life with Fish, 1957
  • Peter Coker, Tree I, 1957 c.
    Peter Coker, Tree I, 1957 c.
  • still life oil painting of sunflowers by Peter Coker
    Peter Coker, Sunflowers, 1958
  • Peter Coker, Sunflower Head, 1958
    Peter Coker, Sunflower Head, 1958
  • Peter Coker, Forest IV, 1959
    Peter Coker, Forest IV, 1959
  • Peter Coker, Aldeburgh I, 1964
    Peter Coker, Aldeburgh I, 1964
  • Peter Coker, Tunstall Forest I, 1964
    Peter Coker, Tunstall Forest I, 1964
  • Peter Coker, Bargemon 2, 1978 c.
    Peter Coker, Bargemon 2, 1978 c.
  • Peter Coker, La Manneport, Etretat, 1976-7 c.
    Peter Coker, La Manneport, Etretat, 1976-7 c.
  • Peter Coker, The Palm, Château Garden, 1979-80
    Peter Coker, The Palm, Château Garden, 1979-80
  • Peter Coker, Drumrunie, 1985
    Peter Coker, Drumrunie, 1985
  • Peter Coker, Cap de la Chèvre, 1985.
    Peter Coker, Cap de la Chèvre, 1985.
  • Peter Coker, Forét de Landévennec , 1985
    Peter Coker, Forét de Landévennec , 1985
  • Peter Coker, Forêt de Landévennec, 1986 c.
    Peter Coker, Forêt de Landévennec, 1986 c.
Publications
  • Peter Coker

    Peter Coker

    Mind and Matter 2017
    softback 67 pages
    Publisher: Piano Nobile Publications
    ISBN: 978-1-901192-46-9
    Dimensions: 24 x 28 cm
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