Greg Rook
Superama, GEORGE YOUNG

This new body of paintings combines aerial landscapes and floating shapes - figuration, colour-fields, texture and abstraction. ‘Kites' are seen from above - painted with brush, roller and airbrush. They are textured and evidence process and changes in direction through overlapping layers. They show clean, machine-like fades and colour blocks that overwrite thoughts, mistakes and past potential futures.

Superama, GEORGE YOUNG
Greg Rook
The 'Estate' of Stuart Cumberland

When we talked about his current position relative to his painting, his reference to a previous Stuart Cumberland as the author of the work suggested that there might be rich parallels to be drawn between working with Cumberland’s painting, working with an artist’s estate and questions of authorship around painting and post-conceptual painting in particular.

The 'Estate' of Stuart Cumberland

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The Estate of Clyde Hopkins

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The Estate of Clyde Hopkins

Greg Rook Advisory is delighted to be working with the estate of Clyde Hopkins. As a painter and an educator Clyde had a profound and lasting influence on all those around him - an influence which continues to be reassessed with his recent inclusion in the Tate Collection. As the weight and significance of his work is brought to light through exhibition and publication, it becomes increasingly clear that his contribution to contemporary painting, and British abstraction in particular, was extraordinary.