COCKRILL, MAURICE (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”.

Exhibitions include:
Portal Gallery, Liverpool
Royal Cambrian Academy, Liverpool
Serpentine Gallery, London, 1971
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1980 and 1982
Edward Tooth Gallery, London, 1984 and 1985-6
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 1988,1990, 1992 and 1994.
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf