“My works embrace colour, shape and tone. These themes have been explored through multiple mediums including aluminium, paper, light and installation. I am constantly inspired by minimal abstraction, the histories of design and the evolution of architecture. The way these contexts provide material paradigms for human behaviour is endlessly interesting to me.”
William Cooke is a Sydney based artist whose practice adopts abstraction to explore the intricacies of the human condition through design, music and art history. He produces independent physical objects that aim to transcend the mind and body. His work operates between the modes of abstraction and design to breach the relationship between form, surface, and the viewer. He makes illusion-based paintings that begin a dialogue, and thus, the work develops a sensory relationship with the viewer. Cooke utilises various supports, such as aluminum, canvas, paper and light to concrete his ideas in the physical.