05/29/2026
Nigel Cooke’s piece “Terrace with Bathers”, is currently on view in our group show Field Studies, at our Libbie Gallery.
Born in Manchester, England in 1973, Nigel Cooke studied at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths
College. He gained a PhD in Philosophy from Goldsmiths College, writing about non-linear systems in the thought of George Bataille, Michel Serres and others. Making often atypical connections between disparate fields - cave paintings and surrealism, insect mimicry and information physics - his theoretical writings ultimately explored representation as a function of the natural world, and formed the basis of his conception of the value of painting and its possibilities.
Work Info:
Nigel Cooke, Terrace with Bathers, 2019, Monotype, 48 3/4 x 42 1/4 inches