Maurice Cockrill RA (British b. 1936)
Born in Hartlepool, County Durham, he studied at Wrexham School of Art, South Wales, then Denbigh Technical College and later the University of Reading from1960-4.
In Liverpool, where he lived for nearly twenty years since 1964, he taught at Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic. He was a central figure in Liverpool's artistic life, regularly exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery, before his departure for London in 1982.
Cockrill's Liverpool work was in line with that of Sam Walsh and Adrian Henri, employing Pop and Photo-Realist styles, but later he moved towards Romantic Expressionism, as it was shown in his retrospective at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 1995.
His poetry was published in magazines such as Ambit and Poetry Review.
Selected public collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Welsh Arts Council
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorft
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
Bibliography
Marco LIVINGSTONE, Nicholas ALFREY, Maurice Cockrill, Tate Publishing, 2003Alex KIDSON and Nicholas ALFREY, Maurice Cockrill Paintings and Drawings 1974-1994, National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, 1995
Solo Exhibitions
2009, Adam Gallery, London; Charleston, East Sussex, UK; Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond
2007, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery; Francis Kyle Gallery
2006, Dover Arts Club
2004, Archeus Fine Art, London; Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, Wales; Attic Gallery, Swansea; Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead; Galerie Bruno Mory , Besanceuil , France; Hillsborough Fine Art, Dublin; Archeus Fine Art, London
2002, Archeus Fine Art, London; Royal Academy, London, Friends' Room exhibition
2001, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
2000, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer , Düsseldorf; Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle , Paris
1999, Annandale Galleries, Sydney Australia
1998, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer , Düsseldorf; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Retrospective; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Galerie le Triangle Bleu, Stavelot , Belgium; Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt; Ogilvy and Estill Gallery, Conwy, Wales
1997, Galerie Clivages , Paris; Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt; Belgrave Gallery, London; works on paper
1996, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia. Drawings; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. A Portable Kingdom
1995, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt; Retrospective 1974-1994, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Place of Fire; Galerie Clivages , Paris The Ash Series; Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia; Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, retrospective
1994, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt; Galerie Molinaars , Breda, Holland; works on paper
1993, Bugdahn und Kaimer , Düsseldorf
1992, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance; Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth
1988, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York
1987-90, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1986, Galerie Bugdahn und Szeimies , Düsseldorf
1985, Kunstmuseum , Düsseldorf
1984-85, Edward Totah Gallery, London
1983, University of Nottingham Gallery
1981, Festival Commission, Milton Keynes; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1979-80, Lime Street Station, Liverpool
1979, St. Paul's Gallery, Leeds
1976, Liverpool Academy Gallery
1974-79, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1971, Serpentine Gallery, London; Peterloo Gallery, Manchester