Maurice Cockrill RA (1935-2013)

Born in Hartlepool, Cockrill studied at Wrexham, Denbigh and Reading before living and teaching in Liverpool. Cockrill has showed with Bernard Jacobson and Archeus Fine Art in London. A regular exhibitor in Cornwall and a successful teacher, Cockrill has also taught at the Royal College of Art, the Slade and St. Martin's School of Art. He was elected RA in 1999 and is currently Keeper at the RA Schools. Work is held in many private and public collections including the British Museum, Art Council of Great Britain, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Royal Academy of Arts.

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Solo exhibitions:
2016
Works from the Artist's Sudios, Belgrave St Ives
2014
Retrospective, Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2014
Retrospective, Durham?Art Gallery
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013
Ffin Y Parc, Lanrwst, Wales
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
2012
Stone Theatre Gallery, London
2011
Maurice Cockrill RA: Works on Paper from
Five Decades Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010
Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
Glyndwr University
Galerie Michael Aalders, St Tropez
2009
Adam Gallery, London
Charleston, East Sussex, UK
Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond
2007
Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery
Francis Kyle Gallery
2006
Dover Arts Club
2004
Archeus Fine Art, London
Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, Wales
Attic Gallery, Swansea
Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
Galerie Bruno Mory, Besanceuil, France
Hillsborough Fine Art, Dublin
Archeus Fine Art, London
2002
Archeus Fine Art, London
Royal Academy, London, Friends' Room exhibition
2001
Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
2000
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris
1999
Annandale Galleries, Sydney Australia
1998
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Retrospective
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Galerie le Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium
Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
Ogilvy and Estill Gallery, Conwy, Wales
1997
Galerie Clivages, Paris
Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
Belgrave Gallery, London; works on paper
1996
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia. Drawings
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. A Portable Kingdom
1995
Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
Retrospective 1974-1994, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Place of Fire
Galerie Clivages, Paris The Ash Series
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, retrospective
1994
Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
Galerie Molinaars, Breda, Holland; works on paper
1993
Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
1992
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth
1988
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York
1987-90
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1986
Galerie Bugdahn und Szeimies, Düsseldorf
1985
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
1984-85
Edward Totah Gallery, London
1983
University of Nottingham Gallery
1981
Festival Commission, Milton Keynes
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1979-80
Lime Street Station, Liverpool
1979
St. Paul's Gallery, Leeds
1976
Liverpool Academy Gallery
1974-79
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1971
Serpentine Gallery, London
Peterloo Gallery, Manchester

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Selected public and corporate collections:

The British Museum, London
Arts Council Collection, London
Arts Council of Wales
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Hertfordshire Education Committee
The Leicester Collection
London Borough of Camden
University of Liverpool
Liverpool Daily Post
Alexander Howden Group
Borough of Milton Keynes
John Moores, Liverpool
D.Z. Bank, London
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
Granada Television
Merseyside Arts
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
Contemporary Arts Society
Deutsche Bank
Unilever PLC, London
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
Riggs Bank AG, London
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Contemporary Art Society for Wales

Selected Bibliography:

2014 Maurice Cockrill, Nicholas Alfrey, Arturo D Stefano & Alex Kidson, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002 Maurice Cockrill, Marco Livingstone, Nicholas Alfrey, Merell Publishers
1995 Maurice Cockrill Paintings and Drawings 1974-1994, Alex Kidson and Nicholas Alfrey, National Museum & Galleries, Merseyside
1992 Maurice Cockrill, Margaret Drabble, Bernard Jacobson Ltd.