Accession Code: wu0293 Title: Face Yourself Date completed: 1986 Medium: Painting Material: Oil Height (mm): 1172 Width (mm): 822 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed and dated. Inscribed with title. Location Name: Medical Teaching Centre Location Description: Corridor Location Floor: 0

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1988

Cook's work represents the move into post modernism by a number of artists in the mid 1980s. Post modernism marked a return to a broad range of interests including symbolism, expressionism and primitivism. Cook's use of vivid contrasting colours and heavy mark-making are redolent of an expressionist approach and create a charged and unsettling atmosphere. The style is close to that of his compatriot and contemporary, John Bellany.