Bill Cook is a creative artist, with a
high skill margin. He is a graduate from the SA School of Art who obtained
credits and distinctions throughout his course, and won the W C Wright
Memorial Prize for Life Drawing and Painting, upon graduation.
He now has numerous group exhibitions and
solo showings to his credit, all of which have been greeted with acclamation and praise.
Now a mature artist, he continues his innovative and uniquely original
approach to creating intellectually challenging works of art.
His works are held in many university collections, private
collections, interstate and overseas, as well as the National Gallery of
Victoria.
Exhibitions
1975 Channel 10 Young
Artists – Invitation Exhibition – Art Gallery of South Australia
1976 “Seven
Young Artists” Royal South Australian Society of the Arts – Gallery,
Kintore Avenue, Adelaide
1977
Two-man Exhibition with Bill Bilecki – R.S.A.S.A. Gallery,
Kintore Avenue, Adelaide
1978 Group
Exhibition – Hogarth Galleries – Sydney
1979 Whyalla
Art Prize
Solo Exhibition, Adelaide University Union Gallery: Opened by Peter Duncan
M.P.
1980 Whyalla
Art Prize
1981 Solo
Exhibition, Adelaide University Union Gallery: Opened by former S.A.
Premier, Mr Don Dunstan
1983 “Land
of Promises” Exhibition, Adelaide Festival Theatre Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Prize
Elizabeth City Art Prize
1984 Elizabeth
City Art Prize – Winner First Prize
Winner Acquisition Prize
1985 Elizabeth
City Art Prize – Runner Up
1986 Elizabeth
City Art Prize- Winner First Prize
Solo Exhibition, “Visions of a Larrikin”, Adelaide University Union
Gallery: Opened by Senator Peter Cook, (Bill’s brother)
1987 Elizabeth
City Art Prize – Runner Up
1988 Port
Adelaide Art Prize
1991 Solo
Exhibition “Icons of Australia”, Flinders University, Level Three
Gallery: Opened by Eric Bogle
1995 Solo
Exhibition, “Two Worlds”, Art Zone Gallery, Adelaide: Opened by John
Lesses, Secretary United Trades and Labour Council of SA
1997 Solo
Exhibition, “Half a World Away”, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide: Opened by
Nicholas Niarchos, President, Greek Orthodox Community of SA
2000 Riverland
Greek Festival, Renmark, South Australia
2002 Solo
Exhibition “Journeys”, Gallery M, Marion: Opened by Theo Maras,
President Greek Orthodox Community, South Australia
2003 Solo
Exhibition “The Presence of Absence”, Steps Gallery, Melbourne: Opened
by Ms Julia Gillard, Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration and
Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs
2004 Solo
Exhibition “You are There, I am Here”, Kapunda City Art Gallery, SA: Opened by Mr Roger Kalleske
2004 Tea
Tree Gully City Art Exhibition, Tea Tree Gully City Council
2005 Group
Exhibition “All Fired Up” Hahndorf Academy” SA: Opened by Mr Robert Gutteridge, Lecturer Mt Barker TAFE
Group Exhibition “The Olive and the Eucalypt” Rundle Street, Adelaide:
Opened by MLC Nick Xenophon
2006 Solo
Exhibition “The Persistence of Origin” Gallery M, Marion SA: Opened by Hon. John Hill MP Minister for Health, Minister
for Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts.
Group Exhibition SALA Week, “All Sorts” Radbone House Potters Group,
16 Radbone Road, Bridgewater
Group Exhibition SALA Week, “Northern Artists Present”, Arts North,
Judd Street, Elizabeth
Group Exhibition Contemporary Greek Australian Art Exhibition, Nexus Multicultural Art Center Gallery North Terrace, Adelaide.
Group Exhibition “Out of the Earth”, Mt Barker TAFE South Australia
Group Exhibition Tea Tree Gully Art Exhibition, Tea Tree Gully Council
2007 Solo Exhibition “Bill Cook at Greenhill Galleries” SA,
Opened by Theo Maras, President of Greek Orthodox Community of SA
2007 Group Exhibition SALA Week “Shou and Tell” Radbone House Potters Group, 16 Radbone Road, Bridgewater
2008 Skopelos Art Foundtion Arts Residency, Skopelos, Greece.
Studio Exhibition Skopelos Arts Foundation, Skopelos, Greece
Solo Exhibition, “Bill Cook in Evdilos”, Evdilos, Ikaria, Greece, opened by Greek writer, Ms Sosa Mberni-Plakida.
Group Exhibition, Hellenic Cultural Festival “Odyssey”, Adelaide, SA
Group Exhibition, “The Flight of Ikaros”Pan Ikarian 50th anniversary Exhibition, Gallery M, Marion, SA, opened by Steve Georganas MP
Group Exhibition, “Feats of Clay”, Mt Barker TAFE, SA, opened by Damon Moon
2009 Group Exhibition, Klemzig Potters’ SALA Exhibition, Adelaide, SA
Prizes
1966
Wattle Park Teachers’ College Art Prize
1975 S.A.
School of Art, G. C. Wright Memorial Prize for Life Drawing and Painting
1978 Contributor
of the Year Award – S.A. Teachers’ Journal
1983 Contributor
of the Year Award – S.A. Teachers’ Journal
Winner Australia Folk Logo Design competition for the National Folk
festival, Adelaide, “Crow about it in ‘83”
1984 Special
Contributor of the Year Award – S.A. Teachers’ Journal
Winner – Elizabeth City Art Prize
Winner of the Elizabeth city Acquisition Prize
1985 Second
Prize – Elizabeth City Art Prize
1986 Winner
– Elizabeth City Art Prize
1987 Runner
Up – Elizabeth City Art Prize
2004 Tea
Tree Gully City Prize – Painting
2006 Tea
TreeGully City Prize – Drawing - second place
Contemporary Greek Australian Invitation Art Prize (Acquisitive) - Winner
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria
Adelaide University Union Collection
Flinders University Collection
Tea Tree Gully City Art Collection
Elizabeth City Collection
Marion City Collection
Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia
Mt Barker TAFE
Evdilos City Council, Ikaria, Greece
Private Collections in South Australia, Western Australia, Greece, and
Oregon U.S.A.
Work
Published in The Following
Sunday Mail, Probe, Preview, Focus, ASH, S.A. Herald, WWF
Credit Union, OAS Broadsheet,
Murray Park Nexus and numerous Book Reviews.
Cartoons and Articles for the South Australian Teachers’ Journal.