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Doug Cocker
Works on Paper
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'Paper collage and its manifold possibilities first engaged me sometime around 2014.'
'Artist Michael Agnew RSA had asked me to collaborate with him on a publication titled A-2-Z of Love and Hate in Scotland (described as "a rollicking series of pictorial riffs" by David McCracken in his epilogue to the book). I greatly relished the directness and space-for-attitude available within the process: also the uncertainties that presented themselves: swapping images and brutalising one another’s hard-earned notions.'
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'Now, some years on, I find myself interminably attached to a working methodology which offers a speed of outcome and a spontaneity seldom available in the making of sculpture: it has the potential for a directness of expression using colour, shape, texture and placement without the dust, grind and technical restriction to which I have become accustomed. (Albeit the outcome is image rather than object.)
'The works in this exhibition reflect an aesthetic commonly pursued in my approach to object making. They all relate to sculpture in some way. However, in seeking, confronting, utilising and usually butchering images from elsewhere, collage has also offered me a new potential for the use of narrative.
'Alongside the formal qualities of the works on show here, the accessibility of the medium has encouraged me to address ideas which have a quite different kind of narrative balance: Call of the Wild, Theatre of Fish, The Book of Common Prayer and A Short History of Power are bodies of imagery which, though complete, have yet to find a platform for public scrutiny. Maybe later?' -
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Doug Cocker RSAEarth Geometry IMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 40 x 50.5 cmSold -
Doug Cocker RSAEarth Geometry IIIMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 40 x 50.5 cm£ 300.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAEarth Geometry IIMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 40 x 50.5 cmSold -
Doug Cocker RSAEarth Geometry IVMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 40 x 50.5 cmSold
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Doug Cocker RSAFenceposts Dance at Midnight IMixed mediaImage size: 74 x 49 cm
Frame size: 91 x 67 cmSold -
Doug Cocker RSAFenceposts Dance at Midnight IIMixed mediaImage size: 74 x 49 cm
Frame size: 91 x 67 cm£ 1,200.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAFenceposts Dance at Midnight IIIMixed mediaImage size: 74 x 49 cm
Frame size: 91 x 67 cm£ 1,200.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAFenceposts Dance at Midnight IVMixed mediaImage size: 74 x 49 cm
Frame size: 91 x 67 cm£ 1,200.00
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Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 1Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cm£ 250.00 -
Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 2Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cm£ 250.00 -
Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 3Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cm£ 250.00 -
Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 4Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cm£ 250.00
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Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 5Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cmSold -
Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 6Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cm£ 250.00 -
Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 7Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cmSold -
Doug Cocker RSALewis Forms 8Mixed mediaImage size: 21.5 x 17 cm
Frame size: 39 x 33.5 cm£ 250.00
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Doug Cocker RSAStanding Forms IMixed mediaImage size: 23 x 14 cm
Frame size: 39 x 30 cm£ 350.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAStanding Forms IIMixed mediaImage size: 23 x 14 cm
Frame size: 39 x 30 cm£ 350.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAStanding Forms IIIMixed mediaImage size: 23 x 14 cm
Frame size: 39 x 30 cm£ 350.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAStanding Forms IVMixed mediaImage size: 23 x 14 cm
Frame size: 39 x 30 cm£ 350.00
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Doug Cocker RSAStanding Forms VMixed mediaImage size: 23 x 14 cm
Frame size: 39 x 30 cm£ 350.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAOrange Order 1Mixed mediaImage size: 38 x 22.5 cm
Frame size: 56 x 41 cm£ 400.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAOrange Order 4Mixed mediaImage size: 38 x 22.5 cm
Frame size: 56 x 41 cm£ 400.00 -
Doug Cocker RSAOrange Order 3Mixed mediaImage size: 38 x 22.5 cm
Frame size: 56 x 41 cm£ 400.00
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Doug Cocker RSARhino 1Mixed mediaImage size: 39 x 27.5 cm
Frame size: 50.5 x 40 cm£ 400.00 -
Doug Cocker RSARhino 2Mixed mediaImage size: 39 x 27.5 cm
Frame size: 50.5 x 40 cm£ 400.00 -
Doug Cocker RSARhino 3Mixed mediaImage size: 39 x 27.5 cm
Frame size: 50.5 x 40 cm£ 400.00 -
Doug Cocker RSARhino 4Mixed mediaImage size: 39 x 27.5 cm
Frame size: 50.5 x 40 cm£ 400.00
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Doug Cocker RSASchiehallion Suite IIMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 43 x 52 cm£ 500.00 -
Doug Cocker RSASchiehallion Suite VMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 43 x 52 cm£ 500.00 -
Doug Cocker RSASchiehallion Suite VIMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 43 x 52 cmSold -
Doug Cocker RSASchiehallion Suite XMixed mediaImage size: 19 x 27 cm
Frame size: 43 x 52 cm£ 500.00
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