Michael Cook’s works can be seen in group shows opening this month at Redland Art Gallery and Ipswich Art Gallery. At Redland Art Gallery, Cook’s 2021 work, Nature Morte (Exploitation), is featured in Drawing Animal. This group exhibition brings together works from the collection that illustrate the ways animals are entwined with human activity, inviting the view to consider the global economic and environmental impacts of this relationship.
At Ipswich Art Gallery, the full-suite of Cook’s 2022 Enculturation series will be on display in Ties that bind. Comprising of works from the gallery’s collection, this exhibition touches on the concept of home and what it means to belong somewhere – be it a geographical place, a memory or an inheritance.
Drawing Animal
Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
21 June – 25 August, 2026
Ties that bind
Ipswich Art Gallery
27 June – 6 September, 2026
Image credit: Michael Cook, Nature Morte (Exploitation), 2021, inkjet print on Hahnemuhle photo paper, 91.0 x 122.0 cm, edition of 7 + 2 AP.
